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M. E. McCarty, Bookseller

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	ALLEN, DAVE A Little Night Reading London, Roger Schlesinger. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 850931916) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Minor creasing and some small tears to the edges of the unclipped dustwrapper, minor shelf wear to bottom edge of black boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover collection of twenty short ''Tales of Horror and the Supernatural'' selected by the well-known Irish comedian Dave Allen. Signed and inscribed on the second page ''To .. / With love from / Bill & / Dave Allen''. The stories are: The Monkeyâ€™s Paw - W W Jacobs, Oh, Whistle and Iâ€™ll come to you, My Lad - M R James, The Signalman - Charles Dickens, The Open Window - â€˜Sakiâ€™, Clarimonde - Theophile Gautier, The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe, The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde, Nobodyâ€™s House - A M Burrage, Was it a Dream? - Guy de Maupassant, The Birds - Daphne Du Maurier, The Furnished Room - O Henry, The Withered Arm - Thomas Hardy, The Man with a Malady - J F Sullivan, Tcheriapin - Sax Rohmer, The Brown Hand - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The Inn of the Two Witches - Joseph Conrad, The Rose Garden - M R James, The Inexperienced Ghost - H G Wells, and The Squaw - Bram Stoker. 315pp. Good/Good. Signed by Author. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.46 \| JP¥ 1101] Book number: 003808 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	CAMPBELL, RAMSEY Cold Print London, Headline. 1993, First Thus. (ISBN: 0747207992) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with paper label inside front board and ink stamps on f/ep, title page , and on top and bottom page edges. Otherwise a good clean copy of this collection of early short stories by the author, all revolving round Lovecraft's ''Cthulhu Mythos''. This is the first Hard-Cover edition, the book being originally printed in paperback in 1985. 500pp. Good/Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 001833 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	CAMPBELL, RAMSEY The Face That Must Die London, Macdonald. 1991, First Thus. (ISBN: 0356202240) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with paper label inside front board, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev, and on top and bottom page edges. Otherwise a good clean copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this book, being a revised and expanded version of this tale, originally printed in 1979. The story deals with a homophobic serial killer in Liverpool. There is also an introduction by the author, dealing largely with his mother's insanity, and also a short story ''I am it and it is I''. 238pp. Good/Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 001832 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HAINING, PETER (EDITOR) The Ancient Mysteries Reader London, Gollantz. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575021314) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. A very good copy in similar dustwrapper of this collection of macabre short ctories inspired by such things as Lost Civilisations, Legendary Continents, Ancient Mythology, and suchlike. Contains 18 short stories, namely ''MS. Found in a Bottle'' by Poe, ''The Coming Race'' by Edward Bulwe-Lytton, ''The Grisly Folk'' bt H G Wells, ''The Mound Builders'' by Lafcadio Hearne, ''The Shining Pyramid'' by Machen, ''The Call of Cthulhu'' by Lovecraft, ''The Moon Pool'' by A Merritt, ''The Terror of Blue John Gap'' by Conan Doyle, ''The Valley of the Sorceress'' by Sax Rohmer, ''A New God Wa Born'' by B Traven, ''The Lost Continent'' by Geoffrey Household, ''An Offering to the Moon'' by Clark Ashton Smith, ''The Secret of Stonehenge'' by Harry Harrison, ''The Bald-Headed Mirage'' by Robert Bloch, ''Creature of the Snows'' by William Sambrot, ''The Convenient Monster'' by Leslie Charteris, ''The Cave of History'' by Theodore Sturgeon, and ''Men Without Bones'' by Gerald Kersh. Haining died on November 19th 2007. 321pp, 8 small b&w maps. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 000941 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HAINING, PETER (EDITOR) Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors London, Souvenir Press. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0285621521) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with ink stamp inside front board and on title page, paper label on title page. Otherwise a good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover collection of sixteen horror stories, each one with a short introduction by Christopher Lee. The stories are The Room in the Tower by E.F.Benson, Count Magnus by M.R.James,The Transformation by Mary Shelley, The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker, The Whispering Mummy by Sax Rohmer, The Leather Funnel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Out of the Earth by Arthur Machen, The Magician by Lord Dunsany, The Empty Sleeve by Algernon Blackwood, The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P.Lovecraft, Return to the Sabbath by Robert Bloch, Four Ghosts in Hamlet by Fritz Leiber, The Devil, George and Rosie by John Collier, The October Game by Ray Bradbury, A Life for a Life by Dennis Wheatley and No Such Thing as a Vampire by Richard Matheson. 316pp, 27 b&w illustrations, mostly of Christopher Lee in his various film roles. Good/Very Good. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 \| JP¥ 1467] Book number: 002706 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HAINING, PETER (EDITOR) Nightcaps and Nightmares, Ghosts with a Touch of Humour London, William Kimber. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718302699) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with paper label inside front board and remains of another on f/ep, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev, and on top and bottom page edges. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good clean copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this book. This book contains a collection of seventeen humourous ghost stories, each with a short introduction by the editor (who died on November 19th 2007). The stories are ''The Spectre of Tappington'' by Thomas Ingoldsby, ''The Lawer and the Ghost'' by Dickens, ''The Wraith of Barnjum'' by F Anstey, ''The Canterville Ghost'' by Oscar Wilde, ''The Ghost Aristocracy'' by Kenneth Grahame, ''The Haunted Mill'' by J K Jerome, ''Ghosts That Have Haunted Me'' by John Kendrick Bangs, ''The Inexperienced Ghost'' by H G Wells, ''The Clothing of Ghosts'' by Ambrose Bierce, ''A Ghost of a Chance'' by O Henry, ''The Ghost Ship'' by Richard Middleton, ''Buggam Grange'' by Stephen Leacock, ''A Trip to Spirit Land'' by Robert Benchley, ''The Night the Ghost Got In'' by James Thurber, ''The White Horse'' by Robert Graves, ''Half-way to Hell'', by John Collier, and ''The Indian Spirit Guide'' by Robert Bloch. 204pp. Good/Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 001573 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	CHETWYND-HAYES, R (EDITOR) The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories London, Fontana. 1982. (ISBN: 0006165109) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Minor yellowing to the pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this collection of sixteen ghost stories. This is the eighteenth in the publisher's ''Great Ghost Stories'' series. 192pp. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 US$ 7.47 \| JP¥ 660] Book number: 003776 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HODGSON, WILLIAM HOPE The Boats of the Glen Carrig London, Sphere Books. 1982. (ISBN: 0722147945) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. A minor crease to the spine, some yellowing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this paperback novel by the author of ''Carnacki the Ghost Finder''. 176pp. Good/No Jacket. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 4.98 \| JP¥ 440] Book number: 002450 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	JONES, STEPHEN; & SUTTON, DAVID (EDITORS) Dark Terrors 2, the Gollancz Book of Horror London, Victor Gollancz. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575063262) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Minor creasing to the edges of the price-clipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover collection of eighteen short horror stories. The stories are ''The Comfort of Stranglers'' by Nicholas Royle; ''A Really Game Boy'' by Brian Lumley; ''Something For Free'' by Conrad Williams; ''(Melodrama)'' by David J Schow; ''Absolute Zero'' by James Miller; ''Negative Equity'' by Paul J McAuley; ''To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889)'' by Caitlin R Kiernan; ''Out of the Woods'' by Ramsey Campbell; ''The Rains'' by Steve Rasnic Tem; ''Underbed'' by Graham Masterton; ''Animal Life'' by Clive Barker''; ''Lily's Whisper'' by Jay Russell; ''Hell Hath Enlarged Herelf'' by Michael Marshall Smith; ''Ghost Music (A Memoir by George Beaune)'' by Thomas Tessier; ''The Dead Cop'' by Dennis Etchison; ''Where the Bodies are Buried 2020'' by Kim Newman, ''The Museum on Cyclops Avenue'' by Harland Ellison; and ''Hunger: an Introduction'' by Peter Straub''. 379pp. Very Good/Good. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 \| JP¥ 1027] Book number: 002992 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	MARLOWE, STEPHEN Translation New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0139303545) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Unclipped dustwrapper has a number of tears along the top edge, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this novel. The story, set mostly in modern day (well, 1970s) Connecticut, involves a lost 17th Century painting with a Gypsy curse on the descendants of the original subjects. 246pp. Good/Good. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 \| JP¥ 1027] Book number: 001844 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.

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	ALLEN, DAVE A Little Night Reading London, Roger Schlesinger. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 850931916) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Minor creasing and some small tears to the edges of the unclipped dustwrapper, minor shelf wear to bottom edge of black boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover collection of twenty short ''Tales of Horror and the Supernatural'' selected by the well-known Irish comedian Dave Allen. Signed and inscribed on the second page ''To .. / With love from / Bill & / Dave Allen''. The stories are: The Monkeyâ€™s Paw - W W Jacobs, Oh, Whistle and Iâ€™ll come to you, My Lad - M R James, The Signalman - Charles Dickens, The Open Window - â€˜Sakiâ€™, Clarimonde - Theophile Gautier, The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe, The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde, Nobodyâ€™s House - A M Burrage, Was it a Dream? - Guy de Maupassant, The Birds - Daphne Du Maurier, The Furnished Room - O Henry, The Withered Arm - Thomas Hardy, The Man with a Malady - J F Sullivan, Tcheriapin - Sax Rohmer, The Brown Hand - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The Inn of the Two Witches - Joseph Conrad, The Rose Garden - M R James, The Inexperienced Ghost - H G Wells, and The Squaw - Bram Stoker. 315pp. Good/Good. Signed by Author. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.46 \| JP¥ 1101] Book number: 003808 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	CAMPBELL, RAMSEY Cold Print London, Headline. 1993, First Thus. (ISBN: 0747207992) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with paper label inside front board and ink stamps on f/ep, title page , and on top and bottom page edges. Otherwise a good clean copy of this collection of early short stories by the author, all revolving round Lovecraft's ''Cthulhu Mythos''. This is the first Hard-Cover edition, the book being originally printed in paperback in 1985. 500pp. Good/Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 001833 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	CAMPBELL, RAMSEY The Face That Must Die London, Macdonald. 1991, First Thus. (ISBN: 0356202240) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with paper label inside front board, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev, and on top and bottom page edges. Otherwise a good clean copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this book, being a revised and expanded version of this tale, originally printed in 1979. The story deals with a homophobic serial killer in Liverpool. There is also an introduction by the author, dealing largely with his mother's insanity, and also a short story ''I am it and it is I''. 238pp. Good/Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 001832 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HAINING, PETER (EDITOR) The Ancient Mysteries Reader London, Gollantz. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575021314) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. A very good copy in similar dustwrapper of this collection of macabre short ctories inspired by such things as Lost Civilisations, Legendary Continents, Ancient Mythology, and suchlike. Contains 18 short stories, namely ''MS. Found in a Bottle'' by Poe, ''The Coming Race'' by Edward Bulwe-Lytton, ''The Grisly Folk'' bt H G Wells, ''The Mound Builders'' by Lafcadio Hearne, ''The Shining Pyramid'' by Machen, ''The Call of Cthulhu'' by Lovecraft, ''The Moon Pool'' by A Merritt, ''The Terror of Blue John Gap'' by Conan Doyle, ''The Valley of the Sorceress'' by Sax Rohmer, ''A New God Wa Born'' by B Traven, ''The Lost Continent'' by Geoffrey Household, ''An Offering to the Moon'' by Clark Ashton Smith, ''The Secret of Stonehenge'' by Harry Harrison, ''The Bald-Headed Mirage'' by Robert Bloch, ''Creature of the Snows'' by William Sambrot, ''The Convenient Monster'' by Leslie Charteris, ''The Cave of History'' by Theodore Sturgeon, and ''Men Without Bones'' by Gerald Kersh. Haining died on November 19th 2007. 321pp, 8 small b&w maps. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 000941 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HAINING, PETER (EDITOR) Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors London, Souvenir Press. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0285621521) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with ink stamp inside front board and on title page, paper label on title page. Otherwise a good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover collection of sixteen horror stories, each one with a short introduction by Christopher Lee. The stories are The Room in the Tower by E.F.Benson, Count Magnus by M.R.James,The Transformation by Mary Shelley, The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker, The Whispering Mummy by Sax Rohmer, The Leather Funnel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Out of the Earth by Arthur Machen, The Magician by Lord Dunsany, The Empty Sleeve by Algernon Blackwood, The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P.Lovecraft, Return to the Sabbath by Robert Bloch, Four Ghosts in Hamlet by Fritz Leiber, The Devil, George and Rosie by John Collier, The October Game by Ray Bradbury, A Life for a Life by Dennis Wheatley and No Such Thing as a Vampire by Richard Matheson. 316pp, 27 b&w illustrations, mostly of Christopher Lee in his various film roles. Good/Very Good. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 \| JP¥ 1467] Book number: 002706 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HAINING, PETER (EDITOR) Nightcaps and Nightmares, Ghosts with a Touch of Humour London, William Kimber. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718302699) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with paper label inside front board and remains of another on f/ep, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev, and on top and bottom page edges. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good clean copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this book. This book contains a collection of seventeen humourous ghost stories, each with a short introduction by the editor (who died on November 19th 2007). The stories are ''The Spectre of Tappington'' by Thomas Ingoldsby, ''The Lawer and the Ghost'' by Dickens, ''The Wraith of Barnjum'' by F Anstey, ''The Canterville Ghost'' by Oscar Wilde, ''The Ghost Aristocracy'' by Kenneth Grahame, ''The Haunted Mill'' by J K Jerome, ''Ghosts That Have Haunted Me'' by John Kendrick Bangs, ''The Inexperienced Ghost'' by H G Wells, ''The Clothing of Ghosts'' by Ambrose Bierce, ''A Ghost of a Chance'' by O Henry, ''The Ghost Ship'' by Richard Middleton, ''Buggam Grange'' by Stephen Leacock, ''A Trip to Spirit Land'' by Robert Benchley, ''The Night the Ghost Got In'' by James Thurber, ''The White Horse'' by Robert Graves, ''Half-way to Hell'', by John Collier, and ''The Indian Spirit Guide'' by Robert Bloch. 204pp. Good/Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 001573 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	CHETWYND-HAYES, R (EDITOR) The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories London, Fontana. 1982. (ISBN: 0006165109) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Minor yellowing to the pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this collection of sixteen ghost stories. This is the eighteenth in the publisher's ''Great Ghost Stories'' series. 192pp. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 US$ 7.47 \| JP¥ 660] Book number: 003776 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	HODGSON, WILLIAM HOPE The Boats of the Glen Carrig London, Sphere Books. 1982. (ISBN: 0722147945) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. A minor crease to the spine, some yellowing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this paperback novel by the author of ''Carnacki the Ghost Finder''. 176pp. Good/No Jacket. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 4.98 \| JP¥ 440] Book number: 002450 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	JONES, STEPHEN; & SUTTON, DAVID (EDITORS) Dark Terrors 2, the Gollancz Book of Horror London, Victor Gollancz. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575063262) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Minor creasing to the edges of the price-clipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover collection of eighteen short horror stories. The stories are ''The Comfort of Stranglers'' by Nicholas Royle; ''A Really Game Boy'' by Brian Lumley; ''Something For Free'' by Conrad Williams; ''(Melodrama)'' by David J Schow; ''Absolute Zero'' by James Miller; ''Negative Equity'' by Paul J McAuley; ''To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889)'' by Caitlin R Kiernan; ''Out of the Woods'' by Ramsey Campbell; ''The Rains'' by Steve Rasnic Tem; ''Underbed'' by Graham Masterton; ''Animal Life'' by Clive Barker''; ''Lily's Whisper'' by Jay Russell; ''Hell Hath Enlarged Herelf'' by Michael Marshall Smith; ''Ghost Music (A Memoir by George Beaune)'' by Thomas Tessier; ''The Dead Cop'' by Dennis Etchison; ''Where the Bodies are Buried 2020'' by Kim Newman, ''The Museum on Cyclops Avenue'' by Harland Ellison; and ''Hunger: an Introduction'' by Peter Straub''. 379pp. Very Good/Good. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 \| JP¥ 1027] Book number: 002992 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.
	MARLOWE, STEPHEN Translation New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0139303545) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Unclipped dustwrapper has a number of tears along the top edge, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this novel. The story, set mostly in modern day (well, 1970s) Connecticut, involves a lost 17th Century painting with a Gypsy curse on the descendants of the original subjects. 246pp. Good/Good. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 \| JP¥ 1027] Book number: 001844 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller.