MASQUES. Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. Original anthology collecting fiction and poetry by Dennis Etchison, Gene Wolfe, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury and others, plus essay by Charles Beaumont and interview with Richard Matheson. "Non-theme anthology series, four volumes of which appeared between 1984 and 1991. All but the third volume were published by small-press publisher John Maclay, and the series helped to set a professional standard for later small press anthologies ... [this debut volume] marked the first appearance of Robert R. McCammon's outstanding 'Nightcrawlers,' and stories by Dennis Etchison, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, Charles L. Grant, and F. Paul Wilson, acknowledged today as the generation who have carried on the dark fantasy tradition established by the early postwar writers." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-457. One of the seminal anthologies of the 1980s. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#159611).
Price: $75.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.