MALIGN PROVIDENCE. Riffs on the Mythos.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and the artists. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine and with tentacles illustrations in red to the upper board and spine and in black to the lower board. In the David Ho illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge orange. Black silk bookmark. Illustrated endpapers and a frontispiece illustration by David Ho. Nine further black and white plates by Francesco Giani. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears.

Issued in an edition of 500 copies, from which this volume is numbered 419, and is signed by author Jonathan Thomas and illustrators Francesco Giani and David Ho in silver on the colophon. A collection of short stories, all of which originally appeared in anthologies, including 'Tempting Providence' in Lovecraftian horror anthology 'Black Wings' edited by S. T. Joshi (2010), 'King of Cat Swamp' in 'Black Wings II' edited by S. T. Joshi (2012), 'We Are Made of Stars' in 'Black Wings IV' (2015), 'A Quirk of the Mistral' in 'Madness of Cthulhu Volume 1' edited by S. T. Joshi (2014), 'The Poor in Spirit' in 'Weird Fiction Review #6' edited by S. T. Joshi (2015), and 'The Once and Future Waite' in 'Black Wings VI' edited by S. T. Joshi (2017).