First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author of the foreword and the illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine and illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Jessica Fortner illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge purple. Illustrated throughout with a colour frontispiece and a further ten full page black and white plates by Jessica Fortner. 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, that is free from fading, loss or tears.
Issued in an edition of 320 copies (of which 300 were for sale), this example is numbered 17 and signed by the illustrator Jessica Fortner and author of the afterword Caitlin R. Kiernan in black ink on the colophon. Collected here are 60 short horror stories, first published between 1978 and 2014, by Melanie Tem who was the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award and World Fantasy Award.
Stock code: 28740
£225