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FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN: A Wintry Tale.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Hardcover - Ghost story set in Scotland, written as a diary by a young minister about when the glen is locked - or snowbound. 103 pp.
Condition: Good overall in green cloth with gold lettering and decoration on front cover (some fading to the cloth, lettering on the spine is illegible, bookplate and scattered pencil underlining.) 103 pp.
Book ID: 79924More details Price: $12.50 -
FIREFLY RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast - Discoveries, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A subtle ghost story, part supernatural , part mystery - years after their death, a man returns to his parent's North Carolina farm only to slowly begin to realize, now that he's home, that something is trying to make sure he stays there. The author's first original novel and the debut of our new imprint dedicated to showcasing the best new voices in speculative fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 375 pp. ISBN: 978-0786948567.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69657More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SENTENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which takes on "takes on covid-19, the George Floyd protests, the effects of incarceration, and a haunted bookstore" with humor and compassion. Includes 8 pages with Tookie's reading list. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. 386 pp. ISBN: 978-0062671127.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 90043More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MIDNIGHT HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Greenwillow Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A ghost story, a story of rascals and wrongdoers, and adventure and suspense by this Newbery award winning author. " Touch enlists the help of the Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his great-uncle's plans to put Touch into the Orphan House & swindle the Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally. . . A fantasy tale of innocence in a world of high villainy." Illustrated with both full page and small drawings by Peter Sis, who collaborated with him on many book. 90 pp. ISBN: 0-688094414.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 80335More details Price: $17.50 -
LITTLE SISTER DEATH.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83859More details Price: $15.00 -
CITY OF MASKS: A Cree Black Thriller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third book, set in New Orleans, and introducing Cree Black, a "parapsychologist with a haunted past" and a ghost-hunter. 438 pp. ISBN: 1582343411.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 44742More details Price: $18.00 -
A FACE AT THE WINDOW
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, a ghost story that explores the boundaries of illusion and real horror. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-553-066943.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37031More details Price: $15.00 -
HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by the author of The Time Traveler's Wife - this one is an unusual ghost story set in London. 401 pp. ISBN: 9781439185393.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54351More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NIGHT COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrah, Staus and Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - In New England at midnight on Halloween, a car of five teenagers is involved in a car accident killing three of them. A complex look at how actions can shape and affect one's future, and a chilling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury (to whom this book is dedicated). 229 pp. ISBN: 0-374-222150.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on front flap of dj)
Book ID: 60183More details Price: $18.00 -
ANGELICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unusual novel by this award-winning writer, one which is a Victorian ghost story, a literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the 1880s - at the beginning of psychoanalysis and at the peak of belief in spiritualism. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 331 pp. ISBN: 978-1400062515.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81773More details Price: $30.00 -
FAULT LINES: Expiration Date & Earthquake Weather.
Edition: Original book club edition.
New York: GuildAmerica, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first omnibus edition of these two novels. From the dust jacket flap "Los Angeles is full of ghosts - real ghosts and solid ghosts, ghost hunters and ghost junkies - chasing and being chased in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes the city, the lives of three innocent people converge in a wild escapade through a landscape haunted by the dead, the mad and the just plain strange." SIGNED on the title page. 933 pp. Dust jacket art by Don Maitz. ISBN: 1-568654979.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67082More details Price: $28.50 -
EXPIRATION DATE
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A 'sometimes terrifying, sometimes riotously funny, always bizarrely convincing ghost story' set in an invented Los Angeles, SIGNED on the title page and as usual, the left-handed author signed upside down. Nominated for the Nebula, winner of the Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror novel. 381 pp. Dust Jacket art by Michael Koelsch. ISBN: 0-312860862.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69505More details Price: $30.00 -
EARTHQUAKE WEATHER.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.). "Los Angeles is full of ghosts - real ghosts and solid ghosts, ghost hunters and ghost junkies - chasing and being chased in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes the city, the lives of three innocent people converge in a wild escapade through a landscape haunted by the dead, the mad and the just plain strange." 627 pp. ISBN: 0-812-555198.
Condition: Just about fine (appears unread, no creasing, a few small nicks to the covers)
Book ID: 67982More details Price: $9.00 -
EXPIRATION DATE
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.). SIGNED - A 'sometimes terrifying, sometimes riotously funny, always bizarrely convincing ghost story' set in an invented Los Angeles, SIGNED on the title page and as usual, the left-handed author signed upside down. 381 pp. Cover art by Sara Hayward. ISBN: 0-7653-17524.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 51349More details Price: $20.00 -
EARTHQUAKE WEATHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Los Angeles is full of ghosts - real ghosts and solid ghosts, ghost hunters and ghost junkies - chasing and being chased in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes the city, the lives of three innocent people converge in a wild escapade through a landscape haunted by the dead, the mad and the just plain strange." SIGNED on the title page. 414 pp. ISBN: 1-568654979.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48889More details Price: $35.00 -
FAULT LINES: Expiration Date & Earthquake Weather.
Edition: Original book club edition.
New York: GuildAmerica, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The first omnibus edition of these two novels. From the dust jacket flap "Los Angeles is full of ghosts - real ghosts and solid ghosts, ghost hunters and ghost junkies - chasing and being chased in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes the city, the lives of three innocent people converge in a wild escapade through a landscape haunted by the dead, the mad and the just plain strange." 933 pp. Dust jacket art by Don Maitz. ISBN: 1-568654979.
Condition: Good only in a fine dust jacket. (prev owner's embossed stamp - the book otherwise appears near fine, but the binding is cracked in the middle.)
Book ID: 35358More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HARROWING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a ghost story set in an old residence hall on an almost deserted college campus, where only a few students, with nowhere to go, have remained over the Thanksgiving break. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Dust jacket praise from Ira Levin, Ramsey Campbell and others. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-312357486.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) Promotional material laid in.
Book ID: 40735More details Price: $30.00 -
PERFECT CIRCLE. A Novel.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Northhampton, MA: Small Beer Press, (2004.). First edition - Eighth novel by this award-winning author (the Arthur Ellis, Aurora, and World Fantasy Awards, as well as having two books selected as NY Times Notable books. ) "Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason." 236 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed white wrappers (sticker ghost on front cover.)
Book ID: 44417More details Price: $17.50 -
FROM AWAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Altadena, CA: Prospect Park, (2018). SIGNED first edition - Novel by this award-winning author issued as a trade paperback original - it starts out as a family drama set on Fox Island in Maine, then morphs into an intense ghost story. Author Tod Goldberg called it a "complex, surprising, and haunting novel. Sutton's trademark wit lives within these pages, but here he reaches deeper, into a dark place, and finds something richer, something more human, than in any of his previous books. This is a page-turner of a different kind: mysterious, weird, and deeply affecting." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 317 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89189More details Price: $27.50 -
CRAZY TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as a modern day 'Topper' with a science fiction twist. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (a tight, apparently unread copy.)
Book ID: 13579More details Price: $35.00