THE FEASTING DEAD. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Metcalfe to A. Langley Searles on the front free endpaper: "To / A. Langley Searles / Sincerely / John Metcalfe." 1242 copies printed. A short novel of psychic vampirism. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times ... Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. Touch of tanning to endpapers, mostly along gutter margins, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#132261).
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