VAMPIRES OVERHEAD. London: Philip Allan, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-248 [249-256: ads], original orange cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Apocalyptic horror thriller, issued in conjunction with "Creeps" series; alien vampires come to earth via comet, devastate civilization. In one sense low-grade Wellsian SF, but highly entertaining in its own roughhewn fashion, also anticipating Colin Wilson's THE SPACE VAMPIRES by 40-odd years. "... Remarkable ... told with very considerable vigor." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 607. "Strange and effective," number 3 of 13 best science fiction horror novels cited by Karl Wagner (TWILIGHT ZONE, August 1983). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-559. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p.106. Reginald 07680. Mild spine lean, a bright, clean, nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with light wear along top and bottom edges and several short tears at folds and two closed tears at upper front folds, 25 mm and 8 mm respectively, with faint associated horizontal crease at upper edge of front panel. (#162975).
Price: $2,500.00
"First Published - - - 1935" on copyright page.