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Fine Binding. Condition: New. Campbell, Harry (illustrator). First Edition, First Impression. A new copy in the Folio Society's eco-wrapping, as received directly from the publisher. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Michael Dirda, has hand-picked the best 'Weird Tales' for this new Folio Society edition. Artist, Harry Campbell, has created seven deeply unsettling illustrations, including a spectacular double-page spread that will delight fans of Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and a pair of illustrated endpapers that hint at the delicious chills contained within. Existing somewhere in the chilly territory between ghost stories and tales of horror, weird fiction is the exploration of the truly uncanny. Michael Dirda has long held a passion for the genre, and the twelve mind-shattering tales he has selected for this collection contain both genre-defining masterpieces and modern classics. In his lively introduction, Dirda warns that the reader 'will encounter revenants, demons, monsters and otherworldly entities, as well as black magic, unholy rites, prophetic dreams and accursed books', before explaining why each of these tales is an unmissable example of the 'strange and uncanny'. The tales are 'Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu; 'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee; 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne; 'Novel of the Black Seal' by Arthur Machen; 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood; 'Casting the Runes' by M. R. James; 'The Hall Bedroom' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Daemon Lover' by Shirley Jackson; 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner; 'The Hospice' by Robert Aickman; 'The White Hands' by Mark Samuels. The book is three-quarter bound in blocked cloth with a front board printed and blocked with a design by the artist. 360 pages. 9½'' x 6¼''. Housed in a plain slipcase. Printed and bound in Italy. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and fully insured.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original purple cloth over paper covered upper board, with metallic purple titles to the spine and illustration to the upper board, in slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Harry Campbell with a frontispiece and six further full page colour plates, including one double spread. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase. A collection of 12 weird tales selected by the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Dirda. Comprising, 'Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu; 'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee; 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne; 'Novel of the Black Seal' by Arthur Machen; 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood; 'Casting the Runes' by M. R. James; 'The Hall Bedroom' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Daemon Lover' by Shirley Jackson; 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner; 'The Hospice' by Robert Aickman; 'The White Hands' by Mark Samuels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.