THE SCREAMING SKULL AND OTHER STORIES. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, n.d. [1930s]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-318 [319-320: blank], original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in black. Later printing. Mixed collection of mystery and weird stories first published by H&S in 1930, including "The Vampire" and "Black Magic," the latter featuring the psychic investigator Sebastian Quin, hero of Horler's novel, THE EVIL MESSENGER (1938). Title novella is a conspiracy thriller with SF elements, to wit a death beam transmitted over the wireless. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-93. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 116. Bleiler (1978), p. 103. Reginald 07404. Hubin (1994), p. 414. Very mild foxing to page edges, a nearly fine copy in very good 2/- pictorial dust jacket (jacket art by Hastain) with touch of wear at edges and 30 mm closed tear along upper edge of front flap fold. A lovely copy. (#170556).
Price: $250.00
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