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Echo of a Curse
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Midnight House, Seattle,Wa., 2002
ISBN 10: 0970734964
ISBN 13: 9780970734969
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Hardcover
Seller: Always Superior Books, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition Thus. One of 450 numbered copies. Book. Seller Inventory # 054799
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Echo of a Curse
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Midnight House, Seattle, WA. , 2002. 365 pgs. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Horror thriller, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1939, of a family afflicted with a 'strain of the hyper-human . With one leg in the human world and one leg in the immaterial world.' In other words, some members become werewolves and after death, vampires. Govina, an extreme case, contemplates matricide and incest to fulfill his destiny. More confused but no less bizarre than his other thrillers, with a pronounced streak of eroticism associated with the violence. Possibly influenced by Endore's THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS, certainly similar under the pseudo-occult bunkum.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages. Seller Inventory # 74109
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ECHO OF A CURSE . Edited and with an Introduction by D. H. Olson
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Midnight House, 2002
ISBN 10: 0970734964
ISBN 13: 9780970734969
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. 460 copies printed of which this is one of 450 numbered copies offered for sale. "Horror thriller, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1939, of a family afflicted with a 'strain of the hyper-human . with one leg in the human world and one leg in the immaterial world.' In other words, some members become werewolves and after death, vampires. Govina, an extreme case, contemplates matricide and incest to fulfill his destiny. More confused but no less bizarre than his other thrillers, with a pronounced streak of eroticism associated with the violence. Possibly influenced by Endore's THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS, certainly similar under the pseudo-occult bunkum." - Robert Knowlton. "Ryan's most ambitious book." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, p. 501. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 188. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 365. Reginald 12601. Hubin (1994), p. 710. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#177066). Seller Inventory # 177066