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New York: Galahad Books (1986).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. 631 pp. A nice copy with very little wear. "Fifty-eight chilling tales of suspense and terror by Robert Bloch, Bill Pronzini, Lawrence Block, John Coyne, Ron Goulart, Barry N. Malzberg, August Derleth, and many others.

New York: Belmont Books (1968).. Soft cover. Very Good. Second printing. Paperback. Belmont B50-839. 157 pp. Great cover art of Rathbone's disembodied head. Bump to fore edges. Covers are nice. Contains The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe; Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; The Trial for Murder by Charles Alston Collins & Charles Dickens; Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; and A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth with gilt lettering. 206 pp. Small date stamp to rear paste-down endpaper. A clean, attractive copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1987).. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 379 pages. A clean copy with little wear. "Original and memorable...engrossing...disturbing...Horror mavens who enjoy violence and harrowing imagery will find plenty of both here. But there is more to The Damnation Game than gore. This story of a supernaturally powerful man who can resurrect the dead probes the many varieties of corruption." - LJ

New York: Random House (1996).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 403 pp. A clean, nearly Fine copy. "Beautiful Randa Phillips, a columnist for an L.A. alternative paper, has been called in to identify the body of her former lover, successful novelist Cameron Landry, who seemingly succumbed to the family curse and committed murder before killing himself. Randa finds herself manipulated into visiting the last surviving member of Cam's notoriously dysfunctional family and falls frighteningly in love with this handsome man who may, through no fault of his own, be turning into a monster." - PW

New York: Pocket Books (1994).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. 325 pp. A clean, attractive copy. "Emerging from a tragic accident with supernatural powers, eleven-year-old Hope Stewart becomes prey to her scientist father's exploitation, a government agent intent on murder, and an evil-worshipping madman named Monkey.

New York: Dell (1958).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. Dell 983. 160 pp. Tiny fore-edge chip in one page. "Behind the town's peaceful facade lurked strange twisted passions - and the will to MURDER!

New York: Airmont Books (1963).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 223 pp. Introduction by Mary M. Threapleton. Light wear to covers, pages yellowing. A solid copy.

New York: Pocket Books (1992).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth. 359 pp. A clean, nearly Fine copy. "After killing a man in an instant of blind fury and fear, Dan Lambert - desperate, unemployed, and torn by dark memories - flees south toward the Louisiana bayous in search of personal redemption, with the police and bounty hunters in close pursuit.

New York: Carroll & Graf (1991).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 214 pages. A clean, nearly Fine copy. "High-style horror stories in a classic literary mode, in expressiveness not far from the American masters, Poe and H. P. Lovecraft." - Kirkus

New York: Fawcett Columbine (1993).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 390 pages. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author. Has a couple of small stains to binding. A solid copy with only light wear. "Newly separated from her husband and struggling to raise her two children, Mary Anne Carpenter finds her troubles multiplied when she and her family become prey to an evil force that is stalking the Idaho wilderness.

Honolulu, HI: Mutual Publishing Co. (1986).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. 285 pp. A solid copy.

New York: Pocket Books (1993).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book Club Edition. 249 pp. Jacket has a couple of tiny tears. Contents clean and tight. A collection of tales of erotic horror by Graham Masterton, Bentley Little, Rex Miller, Elizabeth Massie, David J. Schow, Matthew Costello, John Shirley, Thomas Tessier, Grant Morrison, and others.

Chicago: Playboy Press (1979).. Soft cover. Very Good. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 336 pages. Foreword by Theodore Sturgeon. Spine creases. Two underground classics, Image of the Beast and Blown, in one unexpurgated volume.

New York: Pocket Books (1990).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth. 442 pp. Dust jacket has a couple of tiny tears. "Laura Clayborne faces a terrifying journey into a world of madness and obsession when her newborn son is taken from the hospital by Mary Terrell, a battered survivor of the radical Sixties who now lives in her own hallucinatory world of murderous rage." Bram Stoker Award winner.

New York: Ballantine Books (1989).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. 436 pp. An attractive copy with only very light wear to covers. The spine is not creased. Contents clean and tight. "Doomed to forever wander the earth, desperate to quell his insatiable hungers, Ramses the Damned turns up in Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey and begins a romance with heiress Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster.

New York: Zebra Books (1992).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. 384 pp. Signed by the author. Spine crease, sticker pull to front cover. "Roberta Paxton's worst premonitions may be realized as a killer with a perverse desire to kidnap two sisters - killing one and loving the other - stalks her and her sister Tobie.

New York: Macmillan (1985).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth spine with silver lettering. 247 pp. Top edge of binding lightly sunned. A clean, attractive copy.

New York: Leisure Books (1984).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. 304 pages. Light wear to covers. Contents solid. "For this child was conceived thousands of years ago. It is a child of infinite cunning, infinite evil, an evil as old as time. Its powers are beyond the capacity of men's minds to comprehend or control. If it is not destroyed, one day it will rule the world.

New York: TOR (1988).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 310 pp. A solid copy with only light wear. Contains a short story, The Odor of Violets, a novelette, Horrorshow, and a novel, The Guardians.