THE ROOM OF FEAR AND OTHER GRUES. Edited and Annotated by R. Alain Everts. Introduction by H.P. Lovecraft. Illustrated by Robert Kellough.
[No Place]: The Strange Company, [1988]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original red cloth stamped stamped with Hodgson's autograph in gilt on upper cover, spine panel blank, pictorial endpapers. Unpaginated (approx 250 pp). Illustrated throughout, including many reproductions of photographs of Hodgson. Issued in an edition of 15 copies only, personally inscried to their recipient and numbered. This is copy No. 13 of 15, and is inscribed "appropriately enough for my assistant Flensing Hlanith" (signed) R. Alain Everts (signed) Robert Kellough. A fine copy, without dust jacket, as issued. Item #314694
¶ Collects the 15 short stories all published earlier the same year by The Strange Company as individual staple bound booklets. The texts are all taken from various sources (original Hodgson manuscripts & original magazine texts) & collected here in book form for the first time, along with two short story fragments THE STORM & THE DREADED DERELICT here first printed.
Price (CAD): $750.00