DARK FORCES: NEW STORIES OF SUSPENSE AND SUPERNATURAL HORROR. New York: The Viking Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology collecting short novel, "The Mist," by Stephen King (Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1040-43) and twenty-two short stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Robert Aickman, Gene Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Gorey, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. "Landmark horror anthology ..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-437. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-346. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-284. First leaf (half title leaf) of first gathering just a bit pulled by excess glue between front free endpaper gutter margin, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket with a few rubs but no loss of color. (#161988).
Price: $150.00
"First published in 1980..." on copyright page.