DARK FORCES: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,an export (true 1st edn) copy with no publisher's price, therefore dw/dj unclipped.Colour scenic photographic upper wrap with black+white and silver letters,rear wrap: silver,white and red letters to black background.Minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - no nicks or tears and expected minimal bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip;with upper top right corner lightly bumped also.Top+fore-edges aged as usual/normal and in common with this publisher's quality of paper used in this period - compare Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire.Contents bright,tight and clean.Unblemished, plain black paper-covered boards with bright,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain
white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xvi+1-553pp includes half-title+title pages,contents list,author introduction and 24 different author's novellas.
In DARK FORCES Kirby McCauley - one of New York's top literary agents - has gathered together over 20 brilliant writers,and this ensuing collection of new short stories of suspense, fantasy, horror and the supernatural, does magnificently for the genre what Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions did for science-fiction.Joyce Carol Oates and Nobel Prize Winner Isaac Bashevis Singer create stories with a frisson, told in their inimitable ways; Theodore Sturgeon displays his characteristically wayward flights of imagination;and Clifford D. Simak's exploration of the unknown,set against the rural America he portrays so well, is chilling.Robert Bloch, with whom few writers can compare in their ability to paint the ticking mechanisms of the psychopath,contributes a horrific little tale; Ray Bradbury,without whom an anthology like this would be incomplete,shows exactly why he is such a master in his clever A Touch of Petulance; and Stephen King [The Mist], the prodigy of the genre,demonstrates his complete mastery of the tradition that Bradbury pioneered
with his superb storytelling, his feeling for people, places and character, and his truly Hitchcockian talent for getting at the heart of nightmare terror.
Wryly elegant, wistful, macabre, witty - each of more than a dozen other superb names contributing his or her own touch of horror - DARK FORCES is truly a sinister tour de force.
With so many fertile imaginations so claustrophobically at work within the covers of one volume, perhaps we should have included a free bottle of tranquillisers! Other authors include Dennis Etchison, Edward Bryant, Davis Grubb, Robert Aickman, Karl Edward Wagner, T.E.D. Klein, Gene Wolfe, Ramsay Campbell, Russell Kirk, Lisa Tuttle, Edward Gorey, Joe Haldeman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard Matheson + Richard Christian Matheson, and lastly Gaham Wilson.A nice copy of an uncommon and increasingly scarce title and edition.
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