MASTERS OF THE WEIRD TALE

First Centipede Press edition. Limited edition. Two volumes. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine and illustrated onlay to the upper board, in the David Ho and Michael Whelan illustrated dustwrappers. Housed in the black and grey cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout with a title page by Micheal Whelan, two full page colour plates by Jill Bauman and 13 further full page black and white illustrations by Jill Bauman, Allen Koszowski, Andrew Smith and David Klein. A fine set, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. In the fine original dustwrappers which are free from fading, loss or tears. Complete with the structurally sound slipcase, which has a few very light marks.

Issued in an unsigned edition (of around) 40 sets (as here), with the facsimile signature of Charles L. Grant on the first page of volume one. There was also an edition of 250 numbered sets, signed by the illustrators and author of the introduction. In 2000, Charles L. Grant was the recipient of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award. Collected here, are 96 short stories from across the genres of horror and science fiction, including his Nebula Award winning works 'Confess the Seasons' (1983), 'A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye' (1978) and 'A Crowd of Shadows' (1976).