Best Horror Stories

Best Horror Stories, edited with an introduction by John Keir Cross.

London: Faber and Faber 1957. First edition, first impression. In original, unclipped (priced at 15s net) dust wrapper. Sized 20.7 x 14 cm. Pp. 300.

An anthology of 16 short horror stories from some of the greats of the genre, including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ray Bradbury, M R James, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. Contains:

• Skeleton by Ray Bradbury;
• A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce;
• Raspberry Jam by Angus Wilson;
• Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe;
• August Heat by W. F. Harvey;
• Lot No. 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Lovers by John Keir Cross;
• The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling;
• The End of the Party by Graham Greene;
• Heartburn by Hortense Calisher;
• Bartleby by Herman Melville;
• Our Feathered Friends by Philip MacDonald;
• Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson;
• Mars is Heaven by Ray Bradbury;
• "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M. R. James;
• A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner.

Condition

Publisher's original cloth binding with lettering to front board and spine. Light bumping to spine tips and rear corner. Handling marks to edges. Penned name inscribed neatly to FFEP. Some sporadic small earmarks throughout. Else a very good copy. Unclipped dust wrapper chipped with small portions of loss towards extremities. Worn to joints with light marking to rear panel. Repaired and enforced on the inside with acid-free non-yellowing document repair tape, however with some yellowing left from previously applied unarchival tape (that has now been peeled off). Now placed in a removable, protective sleeve of archival quality.