Search Results: Fiction - Horrror from Riverwood's Books

U. K.: Fontana Books. Very Good. 1974. First Edition; Eighth Printing. Softcover. 0006136966 . Light edge & corner wear, light scuffing/soiling to cover. Internal pages are clean & tight other than some markings left by erased pencil writing inside front cover. Stories: Negotium Perambulans By E F Benson; End of the Flight By W Somerset Maugham; The Beckoning Fair One By Oliver Onions; The Dream By A J Alan; The Stranger By Hugh MacDiarmid; The Case of Mr Lucraft By Walter Besant & James Rice; Seventh Man By Arthur Quiller Couch; No Ships Pass By Eleanor Smith; Man Who Came Back By William Gerhardi; The Visiting Star By Robert Aickman. 224 pages. (*shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

New York: Time Reading Program Special Edition. Near Fine. 1964. Softcover. Time Reading Program Edition 1964 softcover 8vo. Excellent condition, feels tight and unread. Slight edgewear and scuffing to cover. "An extraordinary novel of Haitian peasant life....A well-to-do and respectable man from the city retires to the countryside and finds himself entangled in the voodoo practic of the locals. " (300-osl) ; 8vo .

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good+. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0224061348 . Cover has light wear to edges/corners, a little scuffing. Pages clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unique, dark and erotic, a stunning debut from a distinctive new Irish voice. Eighty-eight compelling bulletins reveal the fractured essence of our age, illuminating and exploring the pleasures and perils of these, the zero years of the millennium. We enter the characters’ lives through seemingly disconnected fragments, characters who go about their lives wallowing in heartfelt lies and stony betrayals, bad jokes and bad sex, and trading in novel ways the old commodities of pain and bliss. (195os) .

Toronto: Popular Library. Good+. 1976. First Printing. Softcover. 0445004045 . Popular Library 1976 edition, same ISBN. Cover has light soiling, light edge/corner wear, a little discoloration from sticker removal, a few light creases, tiny tears spine bottom. Pages are clean and intact, slight paper split at spine at two points but no loose pages, back cover pulled away from spine slightly at rear. Bookstore stamp inside front cover and also a small square area of discoloration where possibly another store sticker was removed. Light age tanning to interior. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; From a Reviewer: "Terrific Pulp Horror Series! Jules de Grandin is a French doctor living in New Jersey, peerless and fearless investigator of the occult whose battles with evil were chronicled in more than 60 stories published in the 1920s and 1930s by his creator, pulp writer Seabury Quinn. De Grandin is not above dealing justice to those he confronts, especially if there is no legal… Read More

Berkley Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0425207978 . Ex-library book, but still in very good condition - mylar cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Internal pages clean and tight. Light scuffing to mylar, small stain on bottom edge of pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

DAW. Very Good. 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 0886775310 . Clean, tight condition. Pages are unmarked, light age tanning to pages and covers. Cover has light edge & corner wear, light crease on spine. A collection of horror tales starring Count Dracula features the work of Richard Laymon, John Lutz, Ed Gorman, Brian Hodge, Carole Nelson Douglas, Max Allan Collins, F. Paul Wilson, Rex Miller, and others. [156-noto]; Daw Book Collectors; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 320 pages .

Paperback Library. Very Good. 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Cover has light edgewear, light soiling and age tanning to covers, interior clean and intact. A black magic novel of terror. Richard Quintain and Julia Wellsley, sworn enemies of Black Magic, make a desperate effort to stop a voodoo plot to rule the world. (110osl) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Macmillan Canada. Very Good. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 0771591659 . Solid, tight condition. Ex-library with laminated cover & usual type markings. Light edge & corner war, moderate soiling/spotting to outer edge of pages. Interior of pages is clean & tight. Psychological thriller. "Is this hell, or just a psychiatric hospital? Dr. Robert Snow isn't sure. Waking from a drunken stupor in a small green room, the doctor finds he's on the other side of the diagnosis - in a place where life and mental health seem to be going pretty cheap these days..... When a charming, manic cowboy and a world-weary intellectual invade Snow's self-imposed isolation, they drag him out of his depression and into the heart of Essondale's black mysteries" (*shipping will be reduced to some locations) ; 8vo .

Lake Geneva, WI: New Infinities Productions. Good+. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0425116662 . Edited by Matthew K. Forbeck. 1st printing 1989. Pages clean and intact other than a couple tiny spots inside cover and first page. Light age tanning to pages and inside covers. Cover has a bit heavier wear with moderate edgewear, light ink rubbing, scuffing and numerous creases, tiny peeled area where sticker may have been removed. (175not,713) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

U. K.: Penguin. Very Good. 1975. Paperback. 0140038922 . Penguin books 1975. Pages clean and intact, no markings other than ink marking across bottom edge of pages, light age tanning to pages and inside cover. Cover has light edge wear, scuffing, and a few light creases, no spine crease. A collection of ghost stories. The stories in this collection include Canon Alberic's Scrap-book, Lost Hearts, The Mezzotint, The Ash-tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad, and The Treasure of Abbott Thomas. (160os422) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Scholastic. Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Softcover. 0590026232 . Pages clean and intact, age tanning to page edges and inside covers. Cover has light edgewear and moderate scuffing, light creasing. Stories of the weird and macabre. Authors: Ambrose Bierce, Lafcadio Hearn, and Sheridan Le Fanu. (115os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; .

Tor Books. New. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0765314711 . New & unread, small dot on bottom edge of pages, otherwise perfect. From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Something Evil (that's with a capital E) is stalking Gil's All Night Diner in Martinez's terrific debut, a comic horror-fantasy novel. Heading the delightfully eccentric cast are buddies Earl (aka the Earl of Vampires) and Duke (aka the Duke of Werewolves) , who are looking for a place to eat as they drive through Rockwood, a small desert community besieged by cosmically weird stuff. Soon after stopping at Gil's Diner, the pair help Loretta, the formidable owner-operator, fend off a zombie attack. Determined to do the right thing, the two supernatural misfits take on further challenges, such as trying to prevent Tammy (aka Mistress Lilith, Queen of the Night) and her loyal but dumb boyfriend, Chad, from ending the world...... (260-noto); 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

U. K.: Arrow Books. Fair. 1979. First Edition. Softcover. 0099097001 . Good interior with fair cover. Interior pages are clean and unmarked, no pages are loose. Cover has numerous creases, rubbing and small peel on rear, corner curling. Demons, witches, crooks, spies and kings .... A treasury of Wheatley's genius. 320 pages (160-noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

U. K.: Signet Books / Penguin. Very Good. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. 0451183797 . Pages clean and intact, light age tanning to interior, bookstore stamp inside front cover. Cover has light wear to edges and corners , light spine creasing, old price sticker on front. One of the 13 Hallows - Dyrnwyn, the sword of Rhydderch - is discovered buried. For 51 years the Guardians have ensured that the magical relics will never be brought together, and their magical powers unleashed. But now the Guardians are dying, horrible, lingering deaths. (200noto,713) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 354 pages .

Dell Pub Co. Good+. 1985. Softcover. 044013434x . New Dell edition 1985 - cover art may differ. Cover has moderate edge and corner wear, spine and front creases and tiny peeled areas on front where I assume sticker was removed. Pages are all intact and clean other than title written in ink on contents page and book sale ink markings on top edge of pages. The master has lined up for your enjoyment fourteen scoundrels who are up to their necks in evil - various authors. (95os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

ROC Books. Very Good. 1992. Softcover. 0451451600 . Moderate edge & corner wear, some small creases. Interior pages clean & tight, bookseller stamp inside cover. 408 pages plus booklists. A collection of twenty-two tales of sex and horror features work by Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, Clive Barker, Stephen R. Donaldson, Patrick McGrath, Thomas M. Disch, and others. Supremely talented manipulators of the macabre, writers who set free some outrageous fantasies and fears, and turn our dark erotic anxieties into art. (180noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

White Wolf Publishing. Near Fine. 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 1565049489 . Excellent condition - clean and unmarked, light wear to cover corners. Successful horror writer Jack Stone is no stranger to the fantasic. But when a death in the family causes him to return to his childhood home in the wilds of the British countryside, Jack finds things and events even he could not have created. And soon, old memories start to take on a physical manifestation. [202-notosl] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 411 pages .

Bantam Books. Good. 1969. Softcover. Wear to book edges and corners, creasing to cover and spine, small tears to spine ends. Interior clean and intact, age tanning to pages. 369 pages. Explores the borderlands of man's greatest mystery - what happens after death. Sir Gifford Hillary, murdered by one of his wife's lovers, returns from the grave in the form of a Ka, an unseen spirit that sees all. (200-noto) ; ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

London: Star / W. H. Allen. Very Good+. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0352312939 . Light wear to edges and corners, interior clean and tight. 231 pages. "In 1866 the first macabre railway stories appeared, to curdle the blood of unwary travellers. These stories take the reader on a nerve-wracking journey from the eeriness of steam-filled stations to the claustrophobic depths of the London Underground....From modern macabre back to Charles Dickens' spectral warning, 'The Signalman', that has unnerved generations of readers...." (os) ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

Avon Books. Good. 1979. First Printing. Paperback. 0380441071 . Avon Books 1979. Ex-library book with rear pocket and a few ex-lib type markings. Pages are intact and clean other than a couple library stamps. Cover has moderate edge/corner wear, some creasing and scuffing. B/w photos. Based on Werner Herzog's screenplay. The haunting and eternal story of the undead master suffering for love. (130os4-24) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 pages .