FINGERS OF FEAR ... Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas A. Anderson. Seattle: Midnight House, 2001. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 460 copies of which this is one 450 numbered copies offered for sale. A reprint of a novel first published in 1937 by Covici, Friede, Publishers. A tale of mystery and horror set in New England at the ancestral home of the Ormes family "which, lost in one of the wildest and most isolated reaches of the Berkshires, was the topic of whispered and fearful comment by the natives for miles around." "... an outrageous horror novel done with admirable panache. A brief plot synopsis would be impossible (not to mention improbable), but hauntings, vampirism, incest, lycanthropy, dead babies, and sexual deviance provide only some of the mayhem confronting the cowardly hero at Ormesby. The book can be read straight, or straight up, but it certainly makes a stylish, literate exercise in grand guignol horror." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 300. "Piles horror upon horror until there is not a shiver left in the reader's spine." - New York Times. "Horror laid on thick ... Written forty years too early. Today it would make a fine horror film." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1233. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#177077).
Price: $75.00
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