POWERS OF DARKNESS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES

by Lord Dunsany, A. E. D. Smith, Russell Thorndike

$1,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

London: Philip Allan, 1934. First Edition. Anthology of ten stories, issued as ninth of the fourteen-volume Creeps series published between 1932-36. Notable for containing the first appearance in book format of Lord Dunsany's story The Two Bottles of Relish. The story, an unqualified tour de force, has an interesting and revealing history. Lord Dunsany was amused to notice that people were reading gruesome stories of

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