Here on this page on rayboasbookseller.com, you can view our Horror and Fantasy titles. Here are the 25 titles on hand as of August 24, 2005 in our shop in Walpole, New Hampshire, so, take a note of the Order Number just before the price, and please place your order at any time. Thank you, RAY
1. LET'S TALK OF GRAVES: TALES FROM 'A CENTURY OF GHOST STORIES', Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London, (1970), 318pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0091017904 Culled from the famous CENTURY OF GHOST STORIES here are fourteen tales to chill and entertain., (Order No: 32901 ), $20.00
2. Adrian, Jack (selected and introduced by) (foreword by Julian Symons), STRANGE TALES FROM THE STRAND, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991, 373pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 019212305X Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, E. Nesbit, Sapper, Edgar Wallace, H. G. Wells, and many others. This volume is a highly entertaining collection of twenty-nine stories, all originally published in the STRAND., (Order No: 22663 ), $15.00
3. Aiken, Joan, THE WINDSCREEN WEEPERS AND OTHER TALES OF HORROR AND SUSPENSE, Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1969 2nd ptg, 256pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket+, hardcover-exceptionally nice, ISBN 1575001895 We have here a couple of dozen fantastic tales, ranging from the unimaginably grisly to the most delectable comedy. There is a strong element of horror in some of the tales, and a delicious quality of humor and fantasy in many others., (Order No: 28160 ), $85.00
4. Barker, Clive, IN THE FLESH: TALES OF TERROR, Poseidon Press, New York, (1986) 1st ptg, 221pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671626876 Join Mr. Barker on his dark investigations., (Order No: 22352 ), $12.50
5. Bowen, Marjorie (introduction by Michael Sadleir), THE BISHOP OF HELL AND OTHER STORIES, The Bodley Head, London, (1949), 230pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) bright, clean copy, Contents include: The Fair Hair of Ambrosine; The Crown Derby Plate; The Housekeeper; Florence Flannery; Elsie's Lonely Afternoon; The Bishop of Hell; The Grey Chamber; The Extraordinary Adventure of Mr. John Proudie; The Scoured Silk; The Avenging of Ann Leete; Kecksies; and, Ann Mellor's Lover., (Order No: 32935 ), $200.00
6. Campbell, Ramsey, WAKING NIGHTMARES, Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, (1991) 1st ed, 273pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312852509 "In dark, seductive style, Campbell takes us through forests of wooden demons and houses haunted by the future rather than the past.", (Order No: 10131 ), $11.50
7. Davenport, Basil (collected by) (foreword by Clifton Fadiman), FAMOUS MONSTER TALES, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, Princeton, NJ, (1967), 201pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Stories include; Smoke Ghost, The Phantom Farmhouse, The Horror of the Heights, The Thing on Outer Shoal, The Outsider, Second Night Out, It, The Dancing Partner, The Damned Thing, Skeleton, The Thing in the Pond, Negotium Perambulans, and, The Fifty-first Dragon., (Order No: 22078 ), $30.00
8. Haining, Peter (selected by), SUMMONED FROM THE TOMB, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, (1973), 213pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0283979550 Grim, gruesome and grotesque, the sixteen tales (by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne, Thomas Mann, Ray Bradbury, Algernon Blackwood, and others) that comprise this volume make nightmares seem like sweet dreams., (Order No: 22063 ), $25.00
9. Haining, Peter (edited by) (with an introduction by Isaac Asimov), THE NIGHTMARE READER, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1973, 340pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0575017104 This volume is more than just another collection of superb stories. Every piece in it is based on the author's personal and often traumatic experience: hallucinations perhaps, nightmares, irrational phobias, the effects of drug-taking, a sense of persecution, a feeling of ghostly visitations, and varying degrees of outright madness., (Order No: 22066 ), $15.00
10. Haining, Peter (edited by) (foreword by Ray Bradbury), THE WILD NIGHT COMPANY: IRISH STORIES OF FANTASY AND HORROR, Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, (1971), 287pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0800883357 In this anthology, Peter Haining pays homage to the land of fairies, witches, leprechauns, and Banshees by presenting a collection of twenty-two outstanding stories, predominantly fiction., (Order No: 24342 ), $10.00
11. Haining, Peter (edited by), GOTHIC STORIES OF HORROR & ROMANCE 1765-1840: TWO VOLUME SET, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, 1972, 2 vols, 928pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjackets (hardcover), ISBN 057501038X Volume I - GREAT BRITISH TALES OF TERROR; and, ISBN 0575013761 Volume II - GREAT TALES OF TERROR FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA., (Order No: 35296 ), $100.00
12. Kahn, Joan (edited with an introduction by), TRIAL AND TERROR: A MASTERFUL TREASURY OF SUSPENSE FACT AND FICTION, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (1973), 569pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), BCE, ISBN 039517208X Here is a full house of surprises and shocks--twenty-five deftly juxtaposed selections of fact and fiction that range from accounts of criminal trials to tales of start terror, from the grisly to the ghostly, from murder fair to murder foul., (Order No: 24349 ), $10.00
13. Kahn, Joan (edited and with an introduction by) (preface by Jacques Barzun), CHILLING AND KILLING: A BRAND NEW TREASURY OF SUSPENSE, FACT AND FICTION, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1978 1st ptg, 337pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0395262879 These selections range from macabre ghost stories to intriguing murder mysteries to true accounts of heinous crimes and clever detection., (Order No: 24350 ), $12.50
14. Kahn, Joan (edited by) (foreword by Ogden Nash; introduction by Eudora Welty), HANGING BY A THREAD: A NEW TREASURY OF SUSPENSE, FACT AND FICTION, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1969 1st ptg, 604pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Once again Joan Kahn offers a sly arrangement of surprises and shocks...a brilliant juxtaposition of new, famous and all but forgotten writers who will have the reader hanging by a thread., (Order No: 24351 ), $10.00
15. Lee, Elizabeth (selected by), SPINE CHILLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTERY AND HORROR, Elek Books, London, (1961), 528pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Selections include; THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, NO. I BRANCH LINE: THE SIGNALMAN, A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED, THE CASE OF MR. LUCRAFT, A WATCHER BY THE DEAD, THE SCREAMING SKULL, JOHN CHARRINGTON'S WEDDING, THE MEZZOTINT, THE NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER, THE RED ROOM, LUKUNDOO, IN THE TUBE, WHEN I WAS DEAD, THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY IN NEW YORK, PHANTAS, THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT, THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP, A VISITOR FROM DOWN UNDER, A ROSE FOR EMILY, THE CAT JUMPS, GHOST OF HONOUR, CATNIP, ENOCH, THE PORTOBELLO ROAD, SKELETON, and others., (Order No: 22139 ), $25.00
16. Lumley, Brian, NECROSCOPE: RESURGENCE, THE LOST YEARS, VOLUME TWO, A Tom Doherty Associates Bk, New York, (1996) 1st ed, 415pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312859481 Lumley's skillful mix of epic fantasy and vampire mythology., (Order No: 41422 ), $10.00
17. Netherwood, Bryan A. (edited and compiled by), MEDLEY MACABRE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL, BEING GHOSTS, PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA, UNCANNY MYSTERIES, Hammond, Hammond and Company, London, (1966) 1st ed, 544pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), All the frightening fascination of the supernatural is contained in this collection of stories by the masters of the genre., (Order No: 22898 ), $25.00
18. Player, Robert, LET'S TALK OF GRAVES, OF WORMS, AND EPITAPHS: AN ECCLESIASTICAL EXTRAVAGANZA, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1975, 256pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0575019220 Here is the story of a distinguished Anglican clergyman who in 1855 enters the Roman Catholic church and who later achieves the Papacy as Paschal the Fourth. Yet not only was Barnabas Barbellion married, with two children; for years, also, he was having a secret affair with the wife of his neighbor, Harold Gatsby., (Order No: 22670 ), $15.00
19. Pronzini, Bill (edited by), MUMMY!: A CHRESTOMATHY OF CRYPT-OLOGY, Arbor House, New York, (1980), 273pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 087795271X The editor unwraps the shrouded history, the eerie symbolism, the enduring examples of man's fervent belief in life--whatever its nature--beyond death. This collection includes selections based on the lore, the legend and the future of the embalming arts and its subjects by, among others, Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, Barry Malzberg, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle., (Order No: 21701 ), $14.50
20. Pronzini, Bill (edited by), CREATURE!: A CHRESTOMATHY OF "MONSTERY", Arbor House, New York, (1981) 1st ptg, 301pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0877953104 Assembled here are the best and most unusual tales of creatures strange, wonderful, and terrifying. A true connoisseur's collection, this book includes works by such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch, Barry N. Malzberg, Leslie Charteris and Talmage Powell., (Order No: 21735 ), $25.00
21. Reynolds, James (foreword by Lon Chaney), GALLERY OF GHOSTS, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, (1965), ill. by James Reynolds, 235pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Here are the expert's choice, selected from hundreds of the best tales of England, France, Italy, Portugal, Norway, India, the United States, and other countries. It is not a book for the squeamish--and even the bravest are advised to read it in broad daylight., (Order No: 22864 ), $12.50
22. Rowling, J. K., HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS - NOT A FIRST EDITION, Arthur A. Levine Books, New York, (1999), ill. by Mary Grandpre, 341pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) - SEE NOTE for Copyright Data, ISBN 0439064864 AN EXCEPTIONAL UNREAD COPY of this Harry Potter title. $17.95 price on front flap of dustjacket, and NO "year 2" on spine or dustjacket. Title and author's names on dustjacket embossed in silver. Green cloth spine, and blue/purple paper covered boards with embossed diamond pattern. String of numbers reads: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4 -- Printed in the USA 37 -- First American Edition, June, 1999. This is the copyright page information - NOT (repeat Not) A FIRST EDITION., (Order No: 36128 ), $65.00
23. Sullivan, Eleanor (edited by), ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S TALES TO KEEP YOU SPELLBOUND, Max Reinhardt, London, (1985), 380pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0370306732 This new Hitchcock anthology contains stories by some of the best known and most successful authors in the genre: Holly Roth, C. B. Gilford, Jean Potts, David Ely, Edward D. Hoch, Nedra Tyre, Bill Pronzini, Hillary Waugh and Borden Deal., (Order No: 22956 ), $15.00
24. Walker, Danton (as told to and recounted by), THAT GHOST I SAW: SOME EXCURSIONS INTO THE SUPERNATURAL, Dennis Dobson Books, Ltd., London, (1958), 224pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "These things couldn't possibly happen but they did, - to - Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Mae West, Stuart Cloete, Ida Lupino, Burl Ives...and many others.", (Order No: 36024 ), $15.00
25. Walter, Elizabeth, THE SIN EATER: AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC IMPOSSIBILITIES, Stein and Day/Publishers, New York, (1968), 192pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), Stories include; The Sin Eater, Dearest Clarissa, A Scientific Impossibility, A Question of Time, The Spider, and Exorcism., (Order No: 22057 ), $20.00