Return from the Grave

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover near spine, no other significant shelfwear, light age-toning to edges of text block, tiny stain at right edge of front endpaper, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, small check-marks next to most title in table of contents; the jacket shows only a touch of surface wear, and has a very short diagonal crease at the upper corner of the rear flap, but would grade as Near Fine but for the price-clipping)]. Anthology of horror stories about the dead rising from their graves to torment the living. Contents: "Waxworks" (W.L. George); "Ingredient X" (H.R. Wakefield); "In the Tomb" (Arthur Porges); "Roxana Runs Lunatick" (R. Murray Gilchrist); "The Sistrum" (Alice Perrin); "The Coffin of Lissa" (August Derleth); "The Slype House" (A.C. Benson); "The Watcher" (R.H. Benson); "The Other Woman" (Rosemary Timperley); "Snow Time" (Oswell Blakeston); "The Tower of Moab" (L.A. Lewis); "'Blue Eyes'" (Maurice Level); "In the Shadows" (Ramsey Campbell); "Some Words with a Mummy" (Edgar Allan Poe); "Dad" (John Blackburn); "Composed of Cobwebs" (Eddy C. Bertin); "Death in the Well" (Frederick Cowles); "The Legion of Evil" (Warren Ledge); "The Wall" (Robert Haining); "At Simmel Acres Farm" (Eleanor Scott). .