Horror from Capricorn Books

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Literary Texts, 2004. 479 pp, 8 1/2" H. " 'The Monk' (first published in 1796) is the most sensational of Gothic novels. The main plot concerns Ambrosio, an abbot of irreproachable holiness, who is seduced by a woman (or perhaps a demon) disguised as a novice, and who goes on to sell his soul to the… Read more about this item

Stone Mountain, GA: White Wolf, 2003. 269 pp + preview, 7" H. "The situation in Constantinople has degenerated into sheer chaos, as vampires of every stripe prey on the ruined metropolis. Lucita, the young envoy of Clan Lasombra, is caught in the middle and cut off from her elders in Europe. Alone, she faces the impossible task of making… Read more about this item

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. 357 pp, 7 3/4" H. Black cloth with gilt lettering/decoration (faded) on spine. One of an edition of 2,000 copies. Contents: Foreword; Schalken the Painter; Squire Toby's Will; Green Tea; Wicked Captain Walshaw, of Wauling; Carmilla; The Sexton's Adventure; Madam Crowl's Ghost; Sir Dominick's Bargain; The Vision of Tom Chuff; Ultor… Read more about this item

New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1896. 256 pp, 6 3/4" H. Yellow cloth with black lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Four b&w tissue-covered plates (including frontispiece). A collection of supernatural tales by British and American authors, including "Dickon the Devil" by Sheridan le Fanu. Each story has its own half title page, but no… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1998. 384 pp, 8 3/4" H. "(O)n the day of his annual trip to his own private island to give six lucky fans the night and fright of their lives, (horror writer Jim Green's) creative juices begin flowing again and words start pouring on to his computer screen. Trouble is, he's not always typing them… Read more about this item

New York: Belmont, 1965. 157 pp, 7" H. "Basil Rathbone, renowned actor and motion picture personality, selects for you the strangest stories ever written - masterpieces of the macabre." Interior - light browning to pages and inside of covers. Exterior - very light edge wear, book is lightly cocked, faint crease on spine, small soft crease at… Read more about this item

New York: Paperback Library, 1967. 224 pp, 7" H. "While searching for treasure in the barbaric Gobi Desert, Burke Blake, a rugged adventurer and enemy of Black Magic, sees an eerie cavalcade of shadowy riders on shadowy horses. Leading them is a figure taller and more terrifying that the others. Although Blake can see little of the… Read more about this item

Portland, OR: Collectors Press, 2000. 256 pp, folio (13/14" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "As long as there have been storytellers, audiences have sought stories that make their flesh creep and their blood curdle - stories that slither into the darkest corners of our psyches. These are the tales that have been read furtively under covers or… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1997. 339 pp, trade paperback. ISBN 0575065729 B&w illus by Dave Carson, Martin McKenna and Jim Pitts. "Using the original novella (by H.P. Lovecraft) as inspiration, these bestselling writers depict the dreadful decline of the decaying Massachusetts s eaport since the late 1920s, through the war years, the rock 'n' roll era, the recent… Read more about this item

Pan, London, 1993, first paperback printing. 581 pp, mass market paperback. ISBN 0330328468 "1923. Madeline Neville watches as her father fills Parkland Hall for her 18th birthday party. Among them is his handsome new research assistant Karl - the man she has already decided will be her hu sband. Her sister Charlotte has generously agreed… Read more about this item

London: Headline, 1991. 309 pp. Contents: Introduction; How Kank Thad Returned to Bhur-Esh; The Sorcerer's Book; The House of Cthulhu; Tharquest and the Lamia Orbiquita; To Kill a Wizard!; Cryptically Yours; Mylakhrion the Immortal; Lords of the Morass; The Wine of the Wizard; The Sorcerer's Dream. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. … Read more about this item

London: J.M. Dent, 1946. 200 pp, small 8vo (approx. 7 1/2" H) - black boards with white lettering on spine. Contains twenty stories selected from 'Midnight House', 'The Beast With Five Fingers', and 'Moods and Tenses'. Richardson 'introduces them with an essay on ghost stories in general and on Dr. Harvey and his stories in particular. Contents: Midnight House; The… Read more about this item

London: Abacus, 1999. 428 pages. "Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millenia, to the very heart of Egypt's… Read more about this item

Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1995. 239 pp, 8 15/16" H. Signed and dated on half title page, "For D____ - Happy Halloween, you wild thing Michael Rowe (reference to his story)" and on title page "For D____ with beast witches! Don / Don Hutchison". A collection of 18 dark fantasies including 'Wild Things Live There' by Michael Rowe,… Read more about this item

Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1992. 203 pp, 8 5/8" H. B&w illustrations. "A collection of 18 dark fantasies including: 'Underground' by Tanya Huff, 'The Man Who Cried Wolf!' by Robert Bloch, 'Ashland, Kentucky' by Terence M. Green, 'The Witches' Tree' by Shirley Meier, 'Toronto Necropolis' by Carolyn Clink and 'The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow' by Charles de… Read more about this item

Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1997. 257 pp, 9" H. Small b&w illustrations by Susan Parker. Anthology of dark fantasy containing 20 short stories including: Mirror Monster by Stephen Meade; The Pit-Heads by David Nicklel Ice Bridge by Edo van Belkom; The Fisher's Daughter by Thomas S. Roche; Skinny Dipping by Mici Gold; Dead of Winter by Carol Weeks;… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1998. 384 pp, 8 3/4" H. "(O)n the day of his annual trip to his own private island to give six lucky fans the night and fright of their lives, (horror writer Jim Green's) creative juices begin flowing again and words start pouring on to his computer screen. Trouble is, he's not always typing them… Read more about this item

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Ravenstone, 1998. 202 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(A) collection written by some of the best writers in Canada. These stories tap into the deep fears in us all. A man's sexual fantasy becomes a frightening, hallucinatory embrace of what seems to him the ghost of his dead wife / While living an apparently 'normal' life,… Read more about this item

Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic, 2001. 263 pp, 9" H. A collection of 16 dark fantasy/horror stories by some of Canada's best writers in the genre. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The Eddies; Sometimes, In the Rain; The Sloan Men; Farm Wife; The Perseids; Fourth Person Singular; Slow Cold Chick; Horror Story; Via Influenza; Ice Bridge; A Voice in the Wild; Hello,… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 1999. 464 pp, 9 1/2" H. "Quicksilver is part romance, part psychologicl thriller. Richly evocative and subtly erotic, it gives a fascinating insight into the myth of the werewolf. Raised in exile as an English gentleman trying to forget a tragic past, Ned Malise wanted only to be left alone with his music, his rich… Read more about this item