First printing of the great crime novelist's last novel, a powerfully atmospheric thriller full of menace and gloom.
Very good plus in very good jacket.
Price: $500.00
"It was Lilith Aurelius - her face dead and bleached as a moon while her eyes glittered with strange blue-green fire."
THEY SEE IN DARKNESS opens with an apocalyptic vision of the Mad Nun of the Cloisters, and only escalates from there. A criminally overlooked masterpiece from a peerless practitioner of the form, unrestrained by the forms and duties of the classic murder mystery, full of dream sequences, nightmare visions, cross-dressing twins, and the titular "They," the Sisters and Mothers of the Healing Darkness.
First edition. London: The Crime Club / Collins, (1944). 7'' x 5''. Original orange cloth. In original unclipped (8s. 6d.) dust jacket. 192 pages. Moderate edgewear and bumping to boards. Pages toned. Jacket chipped, with light soil and creasing to rear panel and one tape repair to verso. Overall, clean and sound.
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