Horror from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. The trade edition, illustrated by Ned Dameron. The first printing was 40,000 copies. 512 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy (very minor shelfwear) in a near fine dust jacket with small spots of wear at the corners.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The contributors are Gary Braunbeck, Nancy Collins, Rick Hautala, Al Sarrantonio and Thomas Tessier. One of 400 signed and numbered copies. 385 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Slipcase with a small nick at the opening. This is no. 313 signed by… Read more about this item

Woodstock, GA: Overlook Connection, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Ketchum's first novel, which was too violent and grim for its original publisher in 1981. The original manuscript is lost-this version is based on the text after the first round of edits. This is one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Ketchum, with an introduction… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2000. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second horror novel by Jack Ketchum, originally published as a paperback original in 1984. This is the first hardcover edition, limited to 1000 signed copies. 190 pages. First hardcover edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Ketchum on the limitation… Read more about this item

New York: Charnel House, 2001. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 500 signed and numbered copies in a slipcase. A fine copy but for some offsetting from the slipcase to the page block edges. This is no. 216 signed by Koontz. In a near fine slipcase.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A classic of modern horror with one of the greatest taglines of all time: "Everybody is a book of blood; Wherever we're opened, we're red." The novel was originally published in six paperback editions in 1984 and 1985. Almost immediately, Weidenfeld & Nicolson put out this… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The best five dozen short stories from Cemetery Dance magazine, including "Chattery Teeth" by Stephen King. 786 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Joe Lansdale on the table of contents page and Douglas Clegg at his contribution.

Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, 2001. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine. This is one of 500 signed and numbered copies of the first complete edition of Barker's six-volume classic of the horror genre. 818 pages. First complete edition. This is no. 96 of 500 numbered copies signed by Clive Barker on a limitation page. The page block, as… Read more about this item

Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An epic horror novel. Illustrated by the author and Kathleen McNeil Sherman. This is one of the signed, limited edition of 450 numbered copies (there were also 75 presentation copies). 636 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust… Read more about this item

(N.-pl.): Obsidian Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Thirteen horror stories, including six published here for the first time. This is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Ketchum, Richard Laymon (who contributes an introduction), and Alan Clark, the jacket artist. 211 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is… Read more about this item

London: Kinnell, 1990. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A vampire novel, first published in 1981 in paperback. This UK edition is the first hardcover (another hardcover edition was published by Dark Harvest the next year). First hardcover edition (stated). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The red lettering on the spine has faded just… Read more about this item

Novato, CA and Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. Collecting The Year's Best Horror Stories, volumes XIII, XIV, and XV. Authors include Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Lumley, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, and other writers. This is one of 350 numbered copies signed by about 30 authors. 704 pages. First edition. Bound… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of ten previously published short stories of dark fantasy and horror. Each story is illustrated with newly commissioned artwork. The contributors include Stephen King ("One for the Road"), Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, David Morell, Peter Straub, Robert Bloch, William F. Nolan,… Read more about this item

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seventeen short stories that revisit George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Contributors include Romero, who contributes the foreword, Richard Laymon, Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Robert R. McCammon. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors, including King, Laymon, and McCammon, but not Romero. … Read more about this item

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2014. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A vampire novel, first published in 1981. One of 1000 signed and numbered copies. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is copy no. 8 of 1000, signed by McCammon on the limitation page.

London: Penguin, 1994. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Very good. An advance copy in plain printed covers of this horror novel published as a paperback original in the UK. 373 pages. Uncorrected proof. A very good copy in somewhat soiled white wrappers but with a nice inscription: "Tom-this is the first thing I've signed that I've never seen… Read more about this item

Hill House and Cemetery Dance, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 52 lettered copies collecting short stories and novellas from some of the best-known writers in the genre, including William Peter Blatty, Stephen King ("The Road Virus Heads North"), Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, F. Paul Wilson, Eric Van Lustbader, Tim Powers, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell,… Read more about this item

Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1991. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A vampire novel, first published in 1981 in paperback. This is one of 500 copies of the first hardcover edition signed by McCammon and the two illustrators, Charles Lang and Wendy Lang, on the limitation page. 412 pages, including a two-page essay by McCammon about… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. One of King's best books, and the rare example of a longer, uncut version that may actually be better than the original (most books would be improved if they were shorter-following Elmore Leonard's dictum, "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip"). This signed,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. One of King's best novels, an apocalyptic book about the near-extinction of the human race. 823 pages. First edition (first printing, a stated "First Edition" and yes, there is the code T39 on page 823, which is not a point of issue, all copies… Read more about this item