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DIRDA, Michael (Selected by); JAMES, M. R.; AICKMAN, Robert; et al.

Weird Tales

Weird Tales

London: The Folio Society, 2024

Illustrated by CAMPBELL, Harry

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Weird Tales. Selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist Michael Dirda. London: The Folio Society, 2024. First printing thus. Illustrated by Harry Campbell. Three-quarter bound in blocked cloth by L.E.G.O. S.p.A. in Vicenza, Italy, with a paper front board printed and blocked with a design by artist Harry Campbell. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. Set in Vendetta with Bordonaro as display. 360 pages, 7 full-page duotone integrated illustrations, including 1 double-page spread, printed in black and green. Printed endpapers illustrated by the artist. Plain slipcase. 9 ½˝ x 6 ¼˝.

Includes the following stories: Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu, Amour Dure by Vernon Lee, The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne, Novel of the Black Seal by Arthur Machen, The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Casting the Runes by M. R. James, The Hall Bedroom by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft, The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson, Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner, The Hospice by Robert Aickman, The White Hands by Mark Samuels.

This is a new book in the publisher's original Sylvicta paper wrapping. There are no dings, nor faults; a fine copy indeed.

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