THE BEST HORROR STORIES OF KARL EDWARD WAGNER. Volume One: Where the Summer Ends. Volume Two: Walk on the Wild Side.

First Centipede Press edition. Two volumes. Publisher's original green and black cloth (volume one) and red and black cloth (volume two) with silver titles to the spine, in the J. K. Potter illustrated dustwrappers, and grey cloth slipcase. Illustrated with full page drawings in black and white by J. K. Potter and a couple of photographs. Both volumes are in fine condition, the bindings square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrappers that are without fading, loss or tears. Both volumes are housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Loosely laid into volume one is a bookplate signed by Karl Edward Wagner. This was added by a previous owner. The author passed away in 1994.Volume One collects nine stories 'In the Pines'; 'Sticks'; 'The Fourth Seal'; 'Where the Summer Ends'; '.220 Swift'; 'The River of Night's Dreaming'; 'Beyond Any Measure'; 'Neither Brute Nor Human'; 'Blue Lady, Come Back', with an afterword by Laird Barron. Volume two collects 26 stories 'The Last Wolf'; 'Into Whose Hands'; 'More Sinned Against'; 'Shrapnel'; 'Silted In'; 'Lost Exits'; 'Endless Night'; 'An Awareness of Angels'; 'But You'll Never Follow Me'; 'Cedar Lane'; 'The Kind Men Like'; 'The Slug'; 'Did They Get You to Trade?'; 'Little Lessons in Gardening'; 'A Walk on the Wild Side'; 'Passages'; 'In the Middle of a Snow Dream'; 'Gremlin'; 'Prince of the Punks'; 'The Picture of Jonathan Collins'; 'Locked Away'; 'I've Come to Talk with You Again'; 'Final Cut'; 'Brushed Away'; 'Old Loves'; 'Lacunae', with an introduction by Peter Straub and an afterword by David Drake. The first edition of each title was issued in an edition of 500 copies.