Johnny Mains Editor (12 results)

Hardcover. fine hardcover copy pictorial boards by Mauricio Villamayor 1st edition. Collecting up a haunting haul of short stories and a handful of strange seasonal poetry spanning from 1780 to the 1970s, this new volume celebrates the riotous weird of the Halloween season.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 7.44x5.12x0.87 inches. In Stock.

London: British Library:, 2024. First edition, hardcover, New sans dust jacket as issued, 307 pp. Cover artwork by: Mauricio Villamayor "From misty moors, crags and clifftops comes a hoard of eighteen strange tales gathered by Johnny Mains, award-winning anthologist and editor of the British Library anthology Celtic Weird. Sourced from Scotland's storied literary heritage and bustling with witches, ghosts, devils and merfolk, this selection celebrates the works of treasured Scottish writers such as John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy K. Haynes and Neil M. Gunn alongside rare pieces by lesser-known authors - including two tales translated from Scots Gaelic. Brooding in the borderlands where strange folklore, bizarre mythology and twentieth-century hauntings meet, this volume promises chills and shivers as keen and fresh as the wind-whipped wilds of Scotland." First edition, hardcover, New sans dust jacket as issued. Mauricio Villamayor (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 8.25x5.75x7.87 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 6.14x1.10x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 8.26x5.76x7.87 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 7.44x5.12x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK edition trade paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing and a stated first edition. Cover art by Daniele Serra. Unread. SYNOPSIS: "Editor Johnny Mains has scoured anthologies, magazines, and online publications to select the very best horror stories written by British authors, from the insidiously creepy to the outright shocking and presents seventeen stories guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine. Contents:Introduction - Johnny Mains, *Paymon's Trio - Colette De Curzon, *Love and Death - Reggie Oliver, *In the Light of St. Ives - Ray Cluley, *The Book of Dreems - Georgina Bruce, *The Affair - James Everington, *Fragments of a Broken Doll - Cate Gardner, *The Lies We Tell - Charlotte Bond, *Ting-A-Ling-A-Ling - Daniel McGachey, *Tools of the Trade - Paul Finch, *Departures - A.K. Benedict, *The Taste of Her - Mark West, *Sun Dogs - Laura Mauro, *Dispossession - Nicholas Royle, *Shell Baby - V.H. Leslie, *The Unwish - Claire Dean, *A Day With the Delusionists - Reggie Oliver, *We Who Sing Beneath the Ground - Mark Morris." Packed weight 460gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.…

Hardcover. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper 1st edition, SIGNED by the editor, 60 copy limitation. Editor Johnny Mains has scoured anthologies, magazines, and on-line publications to select the very best horror stories written by British authors.

Large Soft Cover. Condition: New. First. 232 pages. Stories by Craig Herbertson, Paul Finch, Joel Lane, Johnny Mains, Carl T. Ford, Franklin Marsh, David A. Sutton, Daniel McGachey, Gary McMahon, Reggie Oliver, Ian C. Strachan, Gary Fry, Hazel Quinn, Rog Pile, and David Conyers. Paul Mudie (cover) (illustrator). Horror. …

Large Soft Cover. Condition: New. First. 232 pages. Stories by Craig Herbertson, Paul Finch, Joel Lane, Johnny Mains, Carl T. Ford, Franklin Marsh, David A. Sutton, Daniel McGachey, Gary McMahon, Reggie Oliver, Ian C. Strachan, Gary Fry, Hazel Quinn, Rog Pile, and David Conyers. Paul Mudie (cover) (illustrator). Horror. …

Paperback. fine b-format paperback, Steve Upham cover 1st printing. SIGNED by Reggie Oliver and two others. This anthology will hopefully remind you of a time when horror books didnÆt try to be overly literary or snobbish or superior in tone.