Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (First Edition)

Herbert A. Wise

Published by Random House, New York, 1944

About this Item

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (First Edition) A firm copy. Minor foxing to cloth. Minor wear. Price clipped. A bright jacket. Small chips to edges and rubbing to spine. In clear protective cover. First Printing, stated. When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers"). Gray and black pictorial cloth. Blue stained top edge. Smooth finish to paper. Seller Inventory # HCX21821-1

Bibliographic Details

Title: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1944

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Herbert A. Wise(Editor) Phyllis Fraser(Editor) George Walter(Cover Artist)

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: BOOK