London: Allen Lane, (1980.). SIGNED first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unraveling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this proof copy is, of course, the first state with the original name.) INSCRIBED by Adams on the first page "To - yours sincerely." 397 pp.

London: Allen Lane, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unravelling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this first issue printing still has the original name of Kathe) but it was produced for the Canadian market with the price - $12.95 - in Canadian dollars. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-713913452.

Concord, CA: Dark Regions Press, 1991. SIGNED frst edition - A magazine of weird fiction in a trade paperback format. Includes fiction and poetry as well as an article in the writer's corner by Bruce Boston on small press publishing. SIGNED by Kevin J. Anderson at his story "The Dragon Business." Illustrated by Cheryl Mandus, Alan Jude Summa and Sandra L. Johnson.

New York: The Viking Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, "The mysteries of life are not easily understood by Plantagenet, the swiftest, the skinniest and certainly the most charming pig in all of thirteenth century France. . . A social character with the predictable yearning to belong, he cannot seem to choose between the free but frightening forest life of his cousin the boar, Grondin and his own limited but pleasant existence in the farmyard of the Maister's lovely daughter, Adele." Wraparound dustjacket art, illustrated endpapers and interior line drawings by Michael Foreman. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-670555010.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five short stories and three novellas. Although the title story depicts the mind of a child with tenderness and pathos, other stories in this collection are much darker. Kunitz and Haycraft commented "In his work, if he resembles any other author, it is Poe - but a Poe who has crossed the border of fantasy into the realm of absolute blackness." However, during this period America was avid for anything relating to Edgar Allan Poe and, as Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. Translated from the Russian by Herman Bernstein, 361 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology containing twenty original stories by Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Haldeman, Marc Laidlaw, Roberta Lannes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Les Daniels, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Nicholas Royle, Ray Russell, Whitley Strieber, Robert Bloch, W.H. Pugmire & Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Charles L. Grant, George Clayton Johnson, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Bryant, and Karl Edward Wagner. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories - Peter Straub, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Introduction by Dennis Etchison. xv, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-385-234309.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original anthology containing 17 stories with an introduction by Grant. SIGNED and dated by Yarbro at her short story 'Do I Dare to Eat a Peach' and by Nina Kiriki Hoffman at her story 'The Shadow of the Hawk.' Other stories include The Blind Man by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; A Demon in Rosewood by Sharon Webb; Blood Gothic by Nancy Holder; Everything's Going to Be All Right by Gene DeWeese; Cycles by Kim Antieau; The Tuckahoe by Nancy Etchemendy; Between the Windows of the Sea by Jack Dann; The Battering by Steve Rasnic Tem; Toy by Bill Pronzini; The Man Who Loved Water by Craig Shaw Gardner; Sand by Alan Ryan; and more. ISBN: 0-385-19823x.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original anthology containing 17 stories with an introduction by Grant. SIGNED by Nina Kiriki Hoffman at her story 'The Shadow of the Hawk.' Other stories include Do I Dare to Eat a Peach' by Yarbro, The Blind Man by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; A Demon in Rosewood by Sharon Webb; Blood Gothic by Nancy Holder; Everything's Going to Be All Right by Gene DeWeese; Cycles by Kim Antieau; The Tuckahoe by Nancy Etchemendy; Between the Windows of the Sea by Jack Dann; The Battering by Steve Rasnic Tem; Toy by Bill Pronzini; The Man Who Loved Water by Craig Shaw Gardner; Sand by Alan Ryan; and more. ISBN: 0-385-19823x.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology with 12 "fascinating and original stories of the macabre and bizarre" SIGNED by William Nolan at his story "The Partnership." Also includes stories by Davis Grubb, Ray Russell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbo, Pat Murphy and more. Edited and with an introduction by Charles Grant. ix 211 pp. ISBN: 0-385-157770.

New York: Ace Books, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Tales of birthdays with bite." A collection of vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, P. N. Elrod, Tanya Huff, and others. SIGNED by Carolyn Haines at her story "The Wish." 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015221.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of horror fiction which includes "Foreign Parts" a tale of sex and death by Neil Gaiman, Thomas Ligotti's "The Spectacles in the Drawer" and stories by Clive Barker, Kim Newman and others. SIGNED by William Nolan at his story "Gobble, Gobble." Illustrated. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-88184-733X.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Anthology based on the award-winning horror magazine - includes stories by Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Russell Kirk, Hugh B. Cave, William F. Nolan, Tanith Lee, Richard Christian Matheson and more. SIGNED by TWO authors: by David Drake at his story "The Dancer in the Flames" and by William Nolan at "Fair Trade." Wraparound dust jacket art by Stephen E. Fabian. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-385-149670.

New York: Avon, (1958). First edition - From the back cover: "I found Ralph's body in the chemistry laboratory. The policy called it suicide. But I knew better. It was murder - cold-blooded, calculated murder! The trouble was, though, that if I told the police what I knew it would make me SUSPECT NUMBER ONE. . . the mystery-writing debut of one of the great science fiction writers of all-time." Avon Book # T-287, cover price 35c, good girl cover art. 189 pp.

New York: Walker, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 26th title in the How Did We Find Out Series. Illustrated with drawings by David Wool. Index. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-802764770.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of four supernatural tales, consisting of two novellas and two short stories, set in California and Europe, including - in addition to the classic title story - the often-anthologized "The Striding." Two long and two short stories, the setting shifting from California to Europe. In first of the novellas - 'The Eternal Now' - a man relives his past existence in an earlier century at the height of a party he is giving in the here and now and in 'The Sacrificial Altar' a writer of crime fiction cannot prove his only crime and kills himself. 198 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in twelfth-century Wales at the climax of the Middle Ages, a time when the Crusades, troubadours, Arthurian romance, castles, and Christian fervor are at their peak. 500 pp. ISBN: 0-060179651.

San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of dark fantasy stories by the author of The Company novels. Includes an original novella featuring pirate captain Henry Morgan, 'The Maid on the Shore.' 231 pp. ISBN: 978-1597800518.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in "the parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa" where in front of the doctor struggling to bring water to the area, an apparent miracle occurs. As a tractor gouges the ground for an airstrip, "water bubbles to the surface, first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood. and a sizeable river seems to be forming." A combination of speculative and realistic fiction. 254 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-88619-1815.

New York: Holiday House, (2020). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a humorous new series for older children. "Tom can't help that he's hungry, howling and half dead. Thanks to a series of unfortunate bites, eleven-year old Tom is now part vampire, part werewolf and part zombie - just in time for the first day of middle school." SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Mark Fearing. 295 pp.

New York: Ace Books / Putnam, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel "by the man Stehen King named as his own successor." 379 pp. ISBN: 0-399-132783.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short fiction - 4 pieces that have Stephen King saying that Barker is 'better than I am' 221 pp. Dust jacket by by Fred Marcellino,. ISBN: 0-671-626876.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - "A novel of many worlds." Set in Auckland, 100 years after the Reichs dominated the world. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-312-861184.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - "A novel of many worlds." Set in Auckland, 100 years after the Reichs dominated the world. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-312-861184.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - "A novel of many worlds." Set in Auckland, 100 years after the Reichs dominated the world. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-312-861184.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller about a charismatic cult with a dark underside, SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85708x.

New York: Hyperion Books for Children, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The adventures of Peter Pan's friends on Mollusk Island. The second collaboration between these two authors, and the first written for younger children. SIGNED by BOTH authors - by Ridley Pearson on the half title page and by Dave Barry on the title page. Not illustrated. Disney editions. 115 pp.