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 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.
Rare first edition of Cullinan's great American horror novel of familial corruption, self-delusion, and the sins of an undead national history.
Association copy of the first printing of Barbara Cartland's exclamation-laden fever-dream of health tonics and daily affirmations, worshipfully inscribed to the "lovely" Margaret Thatcher, who is also profiled in the book.
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 edition of Romero's own co-authored novelization of his sequel to zombie classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
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 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.
First printing of the most adorable of all the Avon Satanic Gothics.
Handsomely illustrated signed limited first edition of Bloch's Lovecraftian homage, quadruply signed by the book's author, illustrator, cover artist, and designer.
First printing of the modern thriller, following FBI trainee Clarice Starling's increasingly chilling interviews with Hannibal Lecter while in search of a serial killer.
Scarce, lovely first edition of Penrose's neo-gothic epistolary novella.
Uncommon first printing of Wall's satirical sequel to THE UNFORTUNATE FURSEY, following the sometime monk and sorcerer Fursey through his dealings with kings, demons, vampires, banditti, Vikings, and his true love, who is tired of him.
Signed first printing of this collection of six of du Maurier works, including THE BIRDS and DON'T LOOK NOW, with atmospheric illustrations by Michael Foreman.