Modern Tales of Horror selected by Dashiell Hammett.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1932.
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
First British edition, published in U.S. as Creeps By Night. With inserted slip about John Collier’s Green Thoughts. 448 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Some foxing, very good plus in very good dust jacket (toned). Layman A5.2.a.
Item #365444
A notable anthology of strange tales, including Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann”, and stories by John Collier, Robert Dean Frisbie, André Maurois, Peter Fleming, Philip Macdonald, Hanns Heinz Ewers, L.A.G. Strong, W.B. Seabrook, Irvin S. Cobb, Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Benét, Donald Wandrei, W. Elwyn Backus, Paul Suter, Michael Joyce, and Frank Belknap Long.
