First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 265 pp. "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1778)" by Anna Letitia Barbauld "Vintage Vers: Out in the Dark" by Edward Thomas & "The Wharf of Dreams" by Edwin Markham & The Jongleur" by Madison Cawein "Every Night a Magic Door": An Approach to the Weird Verse of Victor Daley" by Phillip A. Sheridan le Fanu and Bram Stoker" by John Langan "A Spider in the Distance" by Joseph S.
Schwader & "Recall" by Leigh Blackmore "The Icy Depths of Robert Aickman's Niemandswasser" by Philip Challinor "Through the Gates of Darkness": The Cosmopolitan Gothic of J. Waugh "Two Weird Tales: "Passenger Bastion" & "Into Your Tenement I'll Creep" by Jonathan Thomas "New Verse: "October" by Fred Phillips & "Ancient Echoes (Chaco Canyon)" by Ann K. Johnson "Dark Fantasy and Compulsion in Henrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" by Robert H.
Joshi "Apparitition of a Genre: The Psychical Case Study in teh pre-Modernist British Short Story" by George M.
Cover art is "adapted from a pictorial binding" by Curt Lebich. Pulver doesn't shy away from his influences, but they serve as guideposts. He's also influenced by NOIR fiction, Marvel Comics, poetry, Weird Fiction (Michael Cisco, Jean Ray, Ligotti), and music. Chambers soon after, fell harder! When he began to write he played in fields he loved. Drawn to mysteries, mystics, devils and nightmares, Joe is a Martian, made of other-era junk from Tom Waits? basement and outtakes from recordings. In this kaleidoscopic selection of stories everything is to be questioned, is all authority merely abuse? Are we all hypnotized all the time? Asleep and dreaming? Is psychotherapy merely sadism? Do our memories lie? Who are we really? What is real, what is magick, what is delusion? What is love? And how could we ever know the difference? Joe Pulver (award-winning editor of The Grimscribe's Puppets, Cassilda's Song, A Season in Carcosa and others) presents us with these unsettling thoughts and images,in tales which will by turns disturb, frighten, enlighten, perhaps even disgust readers but will surely never lull you into ceasing to look over your shoulder to see who or what is creeping up behind. Twenty two of today's top weird fiction novelists have been challenged to make these tales, inspired by the 1920 uber classic film 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped ($125.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread.
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