ROUGH JUSTICE. New Tales of Crime and Deception.

First edition. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original black cloth, with titles in silver to the spine, in the Dan Strange wraparound illustrated dustwrapper. Red silk bookmark. Textured endpapers. Colour frontispiece by Dan Strange. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions and stamps. Complete with the original pictorial dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, and tears.

Issued in an edition of 500 copies, from which this example is numbered 18 and signed by Steve Tem in black ink on the colophon. This collection of short stories includes 'Estate Agent Arrives', 'Rough Justice', 'The Strangers', 'Plainclothes', 'Rat Catcher', 'Blood Knot', 'Hideous Idea: A Play', 'This Thing Called Love', 'Love Letters', 'Squeezer', 'Creeps', 'Sharp Edges', 'Release of the Flesh', 'The Stench', 'The Assassination', 'Your Daughter Is Here', 'Cannondale at the Beach', and 'Jesse'. 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.