Search Results: Horror from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Burbank, CA: Dark Progress, 1996. Ephemera. Near fine. A calendar with each month illustrated with a photograph of a horror writer. This is one of 250 copies signed by each writer. The writers are Yvonne Navarro, Peter Straub, William F. Nolan, Dougless Clegg, and others. This was a joint publication of Dark Delicacies and The Fool's Progress. A near fine copy. Signed on the limitation page.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 12012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 40th anniversary edition of this novel of murder and mayhem in Houston. This edition includes a short story featuring one of the characters in Act of Love as well as an interview with the author. This is one of 200 numbered copies, signed by Lansdale on a tipped in page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In the publisher's slipcase, which is also fine.

Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 189 pages. Short stories. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the contributors on a tipped-in sheet.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of sixteen short stories, including "the classic werewolf story 'Tarnhelm'; the oft-anthologized 'The Little Ghost'; 'The Snow', a chilling story of vengeance from beyond the grave; and perhaps the highlight of the collection, 'The Silver Mask', which one critic has called 'a masterpiece, a classic example of how a tale can be truly terrible and ghostly with no ghost and only the wispiest hint of the supernatural.'"-quoted from the current Valancourt Books edition. ix, [1], 369, [1], 2 pages. First edition (first printing with 1933 date on title page and no later printings on copyright page). A very good copy (slight spine lean) in a very good dust jacket priced at 7/6 net. Somewhat musty.

Austin, TX: MoJo Press, 1996. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. Graphic novel / comic adaptations of Lansdale's fiction. With contributions from Neal Barrett Jr., Richard Klaw, Jack Jackson (Jaxon), and others. 304 pages. First edition (stated first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed on the title page by Joe R. Lansdale, Neal Barrett, Jr., Jaxon, and others.

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Seventeen short stories that revisit George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Contributors include Romero, who contributes the foreword, Richard Laymon, Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Robert R. McCammon. xiv, 334 pages. First edition (first printing). Small spots on the edge of the page block, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed "For Tom-Joe R. Lansdale.

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Seventeen short stories that revisit George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Contributors include Romero, who contributes the foreword, Richard Laymon, Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Robert R. McCammon. xiv, 334 pages. First edition (first printing). Small spots on the edge of the page block, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed "For Tom-Joe R. Lansdale.

Shingletown, CA: Mark Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Introduction by Lewis Shiner. Trade issue. 246 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good or better in a like dust jacket. Some bumping to the corners. Signed by Lansdale on the title page and inscribed to fellow Texas SF writer Neal Barrett Jr. "For Neal, the best of us all, with love and respect, your pal, Joe. 1/20/90. Signed at my own little house in Nacogdoches, TX." Barrett has made a few notes in pencil on the margins of the title story.

Shingletown, CA: Mark Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by Lewis Shiner. 246 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Lansdale on the title page. Also signed by Lewis Shiner and Mark A. Nelson, who contributed the illustrations.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2014. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first book in CD's six-volume series to reprint, in deluxe editions, the first six books King published with Doubleday. This was King's first book, a novel nearly lost to the trash. It also showed his tremendous ambition, even when he was a struggling writer trying to start a family on a teacher's salary. Carrie took the horror novel and turned the genre on its head, by centering the book on a menstruating high school girl. As Tabitha (Mrs. Stephen) King writes in her afterword to this edition, "I've never doubted at least some of the metaphorical use of menses emerged from Steve's experience of my PMS. Carrie's menses represents her essential femaleness, her fecundity, and brings with it enormous threatening power." This is one of 3000 slipcased copies, with illustrations by Tomislav Tikulin and Glenn Chadbourne. (There were also 750 traycased and 52 lettered copies.). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. In the publisher's… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The fifth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a limitation sheet mounted on the inside front cover. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 96 of 100 signed by the contributors.

Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 112 pages. Includes an interview with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. This is one of 200 numbered copies signed by 9 of the contributors, whose signatures are hard to read. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed on the limitation page.

Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 104 pages. Includes a Tom Piccirilli story and an interview with Richard Laymon. This is one of 200 numbered copies signed by 12 of the contributors, including Piccirilli. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed on the limitation page.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The sixth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a tipped-in limitation sheet. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 99 of 100 signed by the contributors.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The fourth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a limitation sheet mounted on the inside front cover. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 29 of 100 signed by the contributors.

Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 112 pages. Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman. This is one of 200 numbered copies signed by 10 of the contributors, whose signatures are hard to read, but Gaiman is not among them. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed on the limitation page.

Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 120 pages. Includes an excerpt from Stephen King's The Colorado Kid and interviews with Robert McCammon, Charles Ardai, Melanie Tem, and Tony Albarella. This is one of 200 numbered copies signed by nine of the contributors, whose signatures are hard to read, but I recognize Tom Piccirilli. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed on the limitation page.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The little known, super-deluxe version of this massive anthology of English-language horror stories, published in two volumes of 706 and 866 pages. The editor selected one story from each year of the century. This version, limited to 25 copies, has black leather spines, French marbled endpapers, and silvered page edges. The books are housed in a custom poplar-wood box with an etched door and a metal clasp. Each book comes with an original Glenn Chadbourne painting, matted and framed by the publisher. As with the lettered issue (of 52 copies), the artist edition is signed by 14 of the living contributors, including Stephen King (the selection for 1981), Stephen Laws (1997), Brian Hodge (1998), Thomas Ligotti (1991), Dennis Etchison (1976), Joe R. Lansdale (1988), Michael Shea (1980), Ian Watson (1987), Joel Lane (1989), and a couple of others I couldn't make out. Some of the authors included are Ray Bradbury,… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2012. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. An advance copy of the limited edition of this horror novel set during a blizzard in Vermont. 200 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2010. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. 140 pages. Volume 21 in the publisher's novella series. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers.