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Ray
Bradbury: Long After Midnight
[horror, fantasy,
stories]
Earthlight (UK) paperback, 2000 – a
collection of 22 stories from 1946–1976 including The Blue
Bottle, One Timeless Spring, The Parrot Who Met Papa, The Burning Man, A
Piece of Wood, The Messiah, G.B.S.–Mark V, The Utterly Perfect Murder,
Punishment Without Crime, Getting Through Sunday Somehow, Drink Entire:
Against the Madness of Crowds, Interval in Sunlight, A Story of Love,
and others.
[NF] $5.99 |
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Ray
Bradbury:
The October
Country
[horror, fantasy, stories]
Ballantine/Del Rey paperback #27501, 1972
– 19 stories, including 15 from the 1947 collection Dark Carnival,
with illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. “...that country where it is always
turning late in the year... where the hills are fog and rivers are mist;
where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights
stay.” A classic collection of vintage pulp fiction.
[NF] $5.99 |
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Ray
Bradbury:
Something Wicked This Way Comes
[horror, fantasy]
Bantam Pathfinder paperback #9099,
reprint of 1972 edition – Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show crept
into town late one night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the
days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little
girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a grown man
became a tiny dwarf, and two boys discover the dark
secrets at the heart of the show.
[VG] $4.99 |
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Ray
Bradbury:
Tomorrow
Midnight
[comics, SF, horror]
Ballantine paperback
#U2142,
1st printing, June 1966 – eight Bradbury stories illustrated in
comic
book form, reprinted in black and white from Weird Science and
Weird Fantasy, EC
comic books
published in 1953. Adaptations by Albert B.
Feldstein; art by Will Elder, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson,
Frank Frazetta, Jack Kamen, and John Severin. Cover art by Frank
Frazetta.
[VG] $9.99 |
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J. G. Eccarius:
The Last Days of Christ the Vampire 
[SF, occult,
satire]
III Publishing paperback, first edition, first printing, 1988 – enslaving
minds and bodies through religious hierarchies and by direct telepathic
control, Jesus Christ, the vampire, promises people eternal life for the
price of their minds. An irreverent, heretical and satirical horror/comedy
story that has become an underground cult classic.
[NM] $19.99 |
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Shirley
Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
[horror, gothic, ghost story] Popular Library paperback, first printing, June 1962
(movie tie-in) – Dr. Montague, an investigator
of psychic disturbances, extends an invitation to three young people to
join him at Hill House, whose tragic history has made it unfit for human
habitation.
During the
days and nights to follow there are doors that close, drafts that chill,
banging and scurrying noises, and writing on the walls.
[VG]
$7.49
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Shirley
Jackson: The Sundial
[gothic, horror, occult] Ace Star paperback #K-166,
1st printing, 1962 – An odd assortment of kin and hangers-on gather in a
gothic mansion as, initially drawn by the lure of the family fortune,
they get drawn into a sort of group apocalyptic psychosis. They end up
burning an extensive library of books to make room for survival supplies
as they await the catastrophe revealed by visions and
confirmed by apparently supernatural events.
[VG]
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Fritz Leiber: The Sinful Ones [SF, horror] Pocket Books paperback, first printing, October 1980, revised edition – first published as “You’re All Alone” in Fantastic Adventures July 1950. This weird fantasy novel explores dark realms of psychological alienation and occult revelations about the nature of reality, reminiscent of the works of Franz Kafka and Philip K. Dick. The protagonist suspects that he is the only real human in a world of automatons. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Robert Silverberg: The Book of Skulls
[fantasy, occult,
life extension]
Signet paperback #Q5177, 1st printing, Sept. 1972 – Following clues
found in an ancient manuscript, four friends go to Arizona searching for
the House of Skulls, where a mystic brotherhood guards the secret of
eternal life. There, the four aspirants will present themselves – and a
horrific price will be demanded. For immortality requires sacrifice.
[VG+] $5.99 |
