DAMNABLE TALES. A Folk Horror Anthology. Selected and Illustrated by Richard Wells.
London: Unbound, 2021. First Edition (& 1st printing). Large crown octavo, original black boards lettered in gilt on spine panel, pictorial endpapers. 479 pp. With numerous full-page reproductions of folk-horror linocuts throughout, plus pictorial endpapers and decorated dust jacket, all by Wells. Bookplate designed by the author (name blank) affixed to front free endpaper. Small bumps, small scratches and very small stains to fore-edge of text block; a very good copy in like dust jacket. Item #314616
¶ A collection of twenty-two stories which take the reader into the isolated and untamed wilderness of unholy rights, witches’ curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors—with beautiful illustrations.
Contents:
FOREWORD, by Benjamin Myers.
LAURA SILVER BELL, by Sheridan Le Fanu
MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE, by Edith Nesbit
THRAWN JANET, by Robert Louis Stevenson
THE WITHERED ARM, by Thomas Hardy
PALLINGHURST BARROW, by Grant Allen
DEVIL OF THE MARSH, by H. B. Marriott-Watson
THE SIN-EATER, by Fiona Macleod
THE SHINING PYRAMID, by Arthur Machen
THE BLACK REAPER, by Bernard Capes
THE ASH-TREE, by M. R. James
OUT OF THE SEA, by A. C. Benson
GAVON'S EVE, by E. F. Benson
A WITCH-BURNING, by Mrs Baillie Reynolds
THE MUSIC ON THE HILL, by Saki
THE TARN OF SACRIFICE, by Algernon Blackwood
HOW PAN CAME TO LITTLE INGLETON, by Margery Lawrence
ALL HALLOWS, by Walter de la Mare
RANDALLS ROUND, by Eleanor Scott
THE FIRST SHEAF, by H. R. Wakefield
CWM GARON, by L. T. C. Rolt
THE SUMMER PEOPLE, by Shirley Jackson
THE LADY ON THE GREY, by John Collier
BIND YOUR HAIR, by Robert Aickman
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF SUPPORTERS.
Price (CAD): $135.00