Thing of Darkness - G.G.
Pendarves (Available $45.00)
G.G. Pendarves (Gladys Trenery) was one of the most respected writers for
Weird Tales during the magazin's glory years of the late 1920s and early 1930s. One of the few British authors to achieve
great popularity with readers of "the Unique Magazine", Pendarves had two of her tales reprinted twice in the page
of the magazine. As an author who incorporated the colorful atmosphere of her native Cornwall into her Jamesian tales of ancient
dooms and ancestral haunts. Pendarves brings a disturbing verisimilitude to her ghostly tales. This is the first of two volumes
collecting all of her weird fiction.
Echo of a Curse - R.R. Ryan
(Available $40.00)
The enigmatic R.R. Ryan is credited with several of the most compelling and over-the-top novels in the horror
genre. The only author with three entries on the late Karl Edward Wagner's list of the thirty-nine best horror novels of all-time;
Ryan's work has been known to only a few devotees of the weird tale and astronomical prices have been paid for copies
of her books on the rare occasions that they've been offered for sale.Imagine if you will a novel with the cruelty of a Charles
Birkin story fused with the grim excesses of Edward Lee written in the 1940's! It is truly amazing that this novel was not
suppressed at the time of publication, this is without a doubt, one of the most deeply disturbing and perverse works to ever
appear in the genre. Echo of a Curse is a descent into madness, perversion, and the supernatural like no other.
The Garden at 19 - Edgar
Jepson (Available $40.00)
Edgar Jepson's long and productive career spanned the Yellow Nineties through the Edwardian and Neo-Georgian
periods of British letters. Jepson authored articles, reviews, short stories, novels, and even wrote propaganda bits during
the Great War. His talents were employed on everything from lost-race novels (The Moon Gods 1930)to authoring a number
of fine mystery novels, and translating the works of Gaston Leroux and Maurice Leblanc. Jepson also serves as editor or contributor
to a number of the finer literary journals including Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, The Smart Set and numerous others.
Unavailable since its publication before the First World War, The Garden at 19 is acknowledged his masterwork. Considered
mandatory reading by Aleister Crowley for its stunning portrayal of modern paganism, The Garden at 19 is a masterpiece of
terror and wonder worthy of comparison to the best of Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen.
The Return of the Soul -
Robert Hichens (Available $40.00)
Robert Hichens is best know today as the author of the classic supernatural
tale "How Love Came to Professor Guildea", first reprinted in the landmark Omnibus of Crime edited by Dorothy Sayers.
Hichens was a prolific author, producing volumes of fiction and non fiction that frequently achieved huge commercial success,
such as The Garden of Allah and The Paradine Case.Comparatively speaking, his output of supernatural tales was rather small
and to the frustration of the modern reader these stories are scattered throughout several hard to find and expensive volumes.
The supernatural tales of Robert Hichens are exceptional in quality and merit consideration along side the tales
of Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen as being among the finest of their time. This volume is the first of a two-book set
that will at long last present a comprehensive collection of his supernatural tales.
The Beasts of Brahm - Mark Hansom (Available $40.00)
The Beasts of Brahm is the first volume in Midnight House's program to bring the Remarkable thrillers of Mark
Hansomback into print. An eerie mystery that seamlessly blends the genres of the whodunit with supernatural horror. The Beasts
of Brahm has been virtually unobtainable in any form since it was reprinted by Mellifont in 1940. Copies of either edition
of this book are exceedingly rare, with specialist dealers asking hundreds of dollars for the Wright & Brown first edition.
We earnestly hope that new readers will welcome the return tp print of this unjustly forgotten master of macabre fiction.
Fingers of Fear - J.U. Nicolson
(Available
$40.00)
Fingers
of Fear may well lay claim to being the last of the great Gothic supernatural novels. Author J.U. Nicolson weaves a tale of
madness, hauntings, murder, and possible lycanthropy in this marvelous novel of supernatural terror. Last published as a paperback
thirty-five years ago, this classic of the macabre has been unavailable in hardcover for over sixty years.
