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Stockton: Alpenhouse Apparitions (Sutton Hoo Press). 40 pages. One of 250 copies. Signed by the author and artist. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2005.

[Stockton, Minnesota]: Alpenhouse Apparitions, 2005. Edition limited to 250 copies (this, no. 12) signed by the author and illustrator, 8vo, pp. 40, [4]; printed in red and black; 10 wood engravings by Hanka; fine copy in original black cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. From the library of Kim Merker. "Printed letterpress from hand set Joanna types on dampened Johannot, a French mould-made paper, by Chad Oness at his Sutton Hoo Press in Stockton, Minnesota for Alpenhouse Apparitions, a new imprint co-edited with James Boyd White and dedicated primarily to publishing the best supernatural & other genre fiction in hand made fine press editions" (colophon). There was also an issue of 26 lettered copies in a deluxe binding.

[Stockton, MN]: Alpenhouse Apparitions, 2005. First edition. A fine copy. A lovely example of hand letter pressed book in a fine binding. (19991). Octavo, eleven engravings by Ladislav Hanka, black cloth with three quarter marble board front, fore and bottom edge uncut. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Campbell and artist Ladislav Hanka. A short ghost story specifically written for this publisher. David, a young boy, tries to navigate family tensions during a visit to his grandparents for the Christmas holidays. David's mother has recently been abandoned by her husband, and David's grandmother, who is struggling with dementia, obsesses over a plastic Santa Claus decoration coming loose from the roof of her house. The narrative slowly builds to a terrifying, ambiguous climax. THE DECORATIONS was later selected as the lead story by editor Stephen Jones for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (2006).