OUT OF THE DARK. A Storybook of Horrors.

Limited edition. Signed by the author, the illustrator and the cover artist. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, and animal illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Christopher Conn Askew illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge red. Textured endpapers. Dark orange satin bookmark. Boldly illustrated throughout with 53 black and white plates by Jérémy Huet. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with just a touch of rubbing to the head of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss or tears.

Issued in an edition of 320 copies, from which this example is numbered 91, and signed by the author Steve Rasnic Tem, illustrator Jérémy Huet, and cover artist Christopher Conn Askew in black ink on the colophon. This strikingly illustrated horror anthology of 73 short stories is divided into 15 subcategories, as follows: 'Old Monsters', 'Haunted', 'Lovecraftian Denizens', 'Legends', 'Obsessions', 'Far-Away Lands', 'Nightmares', 'Halloween', 'Witch magic', 'Creatures', 'The Living and the Dead', 'Strangers', 'Psychopathology', 'Altered States', and 'Departures'. A prolific horror author and frequent collaborator of wife and fellow writer Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem has published over 500 short stories in his career and has won numerous Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, and British Fantasy Awards for his work.