TALES
Rare first printing of this selection of Poe's tales, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Rare first printing of this selection of Poe's tales, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century.
First edition of the Ur-Gothic, the literary sensation credited by many for inaugurating one of the first major trends of the English novel — and the literary heart of Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY, which is both a satire of and homage to it.
Signed first edition of King's foray into one of the darkest reaches of human suffering, inscribed by King to the owners of venerable independent bookstore Bookshop Santa Cruz.
Unique copy of the first edition of Machen's impossibly eerie episodic novel, in an eerie handmade vernacular dust jacket, from the library of actor Wyndham Goldie.
Rare first edition of Cullinan's great American horror novel of familial corruption, self-delusion, and the sins of an undead national history.
Rare first edition in English of this investigation of life after death, seeking to explain scientifically phantoms, lycanthropes, vampires, and Doubles by reference to "magnetic fluid" and the mesmeric ether.
Limited edition of Faulkner's story of a wretched girl with a tyrannical mother, its first and only publication until its inclusion in 1979's UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER.
First edition of Rhys's great postcolonial reimagining of JANE EYRE, the story of ill-fated Antoinette Cosway, Jamaican-born first wife of the fearful and hateful Edward Fairfax Rochester.
Signed limited first edition set, one of 250 signed and numbered by Gorey, complete with all 16 original postcards and original pictorial envelope.
First US edition of Rhys's great postcolonial reimagining of JANE EYRE, the story of ill-fated Antoinette Cosway, Jamaican-born first wife of the fearful and hateful Edward Fairfax Rochester.
Rare first printing of the US edition, revised from the English edition and the author's preferred version of perhaps the greatest children's gothic.
First edition of the first conscientiously gay gothic romance: meditative, otherworldly, intimate, and allusive.
First Centipede Press edition, one of 200 numbered copies signed by Moser, McGrath, and Alfrey.
First US edition of Simpson's historical gothic, her second novel adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock.
First printing of the great crime novelist's last novel, a powerfully atmospheric thriller full of menace and gloom.
First printing (a paperback original) of what will always be Bret Easton Ellis's best book — whether he likes it or not.
First printing of the famed Dell edition, with the landmark gothic cover that anticipates the "woman running from the house" designs of the gothic romance wave a decade later.
A superlative and scarce Avon Satanic Gothic by the legendarily accomplished Banis as "Lynn Benedict".
First edition of the fifth of King's novels to be published under his own name, one of his most successful works and the basis for a film adaptation by David Cronenberg.
Uncommon and stylish French edition of the ur-Gothic novel, with the finest paperback cover illustration ever offered to Ann Radcliffe in any language.
Lurid and diabolical Avon paperback original, an early hybrid of '70s occult exploitation pulp and traditional paperback gothic signifiers.
First edition of King's sprawling and terrifying coming-of-age epic, set in Derry, Maine, where friendship is forever if the clown in the drains doesn't get you.
First printing of this collection of Moore's early stories, starring the iron-souled Jirel of Joiry and the roguish wanderer Northwest Smith.
First English-language paperback edition of LA COMTESSE SANGLANTE, re-titled to coincide with the release of the Hammer horror film based on Penrose's singular gothic historical fantasia.