{"product_id":"a-century-of-creepy-stories-hutchinson-co-first-edition-1934-anthology","title":"A Century of Creepy Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Century of Creepy Stories. \u003c\/strong\u003eLondon: Hutchinson \u0026amp; Co., [Undated, but 1934]. First edition, first printing of this omnibus volume that contains seventy stories by forty-one famous writers, including master blood-curdlers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, and Algernon Blackwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover; xi, 1178 pp. Publisher's original turquoise cloth, decorated and lettered in black to upper cover and spine, plain endpapers; with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The book is in very good condition, with the slightest bumping and discolouration to the spine tips, a few spots of wear to the lower portion of the rear board, some foxing to the closed text block, and a blind-embossed ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. In the good dust jacket, somewhat sunned to the spine, creased with a few tears to the extremities, a little marked to the rear panel, with a few small areas of loss to the edges and to the number 6 in the price listed at the bottom of the spine. A lovely copy, scarcer in the dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the front flap: \"As you turn these fascinating pages, the atmosphere of suspense makes the nerves tingle. You hear faint echoes of footsteps in the dark. You feel cold winds from outer space blowing into the warm familiarity of life. You are transported into a world of eeries fantasy, where whispering voices hint unutterable horrors, where empty rooms are not as empty as they seem, where the dead do not always stay dead.  \"If I'm not very careful,\" you feel, \"something like this may happen to me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54215032668499,"sku":null,"price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/1934-A-Century-of-Creepy-Stories-FIRST-EDITION-Edgar-Allan-Poe-M-R-James-Wells_1.webp?v=1784040945","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/a-century-of-creepy-stories-hutchinson-co-first-edition-1934-anthology","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}