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Author: William Hope Hodgson Title: Carnacki The Ghost-finder Publisher:   Sphere Country: UK Date: 1981 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Horror ISBN-10: 0722147937 First Published:   1947 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay

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sphere books limited 30/32 gray's inn road, london wc1x 8jl (uk)

first edition published 1913 in hardcover by eveleigh nash, london, collects the first six stories only: any more would have been tricky;
second edition published 1947 in hardcover by mycroft & moran, london, adds the last three.

collection:

introduction by gerald suster, noted on the back cover as "author of "the literature of fear" ", but i find no other trace of this; he definitely did write "the legacy of the beast" (1988), on the life, work and influence of aleister crowley, and others.
"the thing invisible" 1912
"the gateway of the monster" 1910
"the house among the laurels" 1910
"the whistling room" 1910
"the searcher of the end house" 1910
"the horse of the invisible" 1910
"the haunted JARVEE" 1929
"the find" 1947
"the hog" 1947

third sphere books printing, but first (with "dennis wheatley collection of horror" cover), lacks:

4pp introduction by gerald suster dated 1979, © 1980
added in 1980 sphere books' second printing/second edition, first printing

240pp including titles, indica, introduction, brief but useful bibliography
cover art uncredited, unsigned
cover price £1.25
also: australia $4.50 (recommended price only), malta £1.25

Comments and Reviews

ppint. 17th Feb 2018		notes. it was the "dennis wheatley library of the occult", not "collection of horror"... ..and mycroft & moran, thrid line in notes, was an imprint of arkham house, sauk city, wisconsin (usa), not london at all, at all - not even a london named thus by revolting colonialists. (think i somehow managed to submit the penultimate version rather than the finished one. not sure i could do that again deliberately, even if i really wanted to. . .)

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