WEIRD TALES

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original purple cloth over paper covered upper board, with metallic purple titles to the spine and illustration to the upper board, in slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Harry Campbell with a frontispiece and six further full page colour plates, including one double spread. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

A collection of 12 weird tales selected by the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Dirda. Comprising, 'Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu; 'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee; 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne; 'Novel of the Black Seal' by Arthur Machen; 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood; 'Casting the Runes' by M. R. James; 'The Hall Bedroom' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Daemon Lover' by Shirley Jackson; 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner; 'The Hospice' by Robert Aickman; 'The White Hands' by Mark Samuels.