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Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2004. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Comes in a felt-lined slipcase which has light bumping at corners. Signed and lettered edition, letter UU of 52 copies.Includes a hardcover chapbook, In the Shadow of the Master, also signed by Morrell.By the author of Rambo.In each of the stories in this collection there is a theme: obsession and determination. A character gets an idea in his head, a hook on his emotions, a need that has to be fulfilled, and he does everything possible to carry through, no matter how difficult. Written with the haunting emotional intensity and lightning pace that has made David Morrell the master of high-action suspense writing, this collection of stories will leave you dazzled.

Orb Books, New York, 2012. First printing of the second edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and nicks at spine ends.Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerful, moving, and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time.

Eclipse, 1988. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and nicks at spine, else fine.Introduction by Ramsey Campbell, from the creator of Conan.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2007. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed, limited, and numbered edition; number 530 of 750 copies.Eleven flights of fancy and one true story...but it can be hard to say where fancy ends and the truth begins.In this, his second collection of short fiction, award winning author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher delivers his unique take on the weird, the wonderful, and the downright strange. These are tales in which the world is very much as we know it, but charged with a sense of the wonders that lie in wait just beneath the surface of our everyday reality.

Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 1988. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and nicks at spine, else fine.Introduction by Marv Wolfman.

Tor, New York. Later printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, light soiling at edges on rear cover.Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by Harper's to find a noted Indian poet who has reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he was thought dead. But nothing is simple in Calcutta and Lucsak's routine assignment turns into a nightmare when he learns that the poet is rumoured to have been brought back to life in a bloody and grisly ceremony of human sacrifice.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2007. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed, limited, and numbered edition; number 418 of 750 copies. From the publisher: Introduction by Jack Dann. A very special jukebox in the abandoned saloon of a deserted town plays much more than mere tunes for two weary wanderers . . . a travelling carnival in a post-acocalyptic world comes across the Earth's very last vampire . . . a chair fashioned out of the wood from the original cross provides a comfort of sorts down the ages . . . a man used a roll of magical tape to halt time and save his wife's life, unaware that there are things in this stopped-clock dimention that take a dim view of visitors . . . twelve stories from the fertile mind of Peter Crowther.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe hardcover edition including an exclusive chapbook by Joe Hill, Thumbprint with a cover by Vincent Chong. All original stories by Kage Baker, Poppy Z. Brite, Mike Carey, Joe Landsdale, Patrick Rothfuss, Tim Powers, Mike Resnick, Rachel Swirsky, Darren Speegle, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and William Browning Spencer.

Little, Brown And Company, Boston, 2009. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. But what they don't expect is a monstrous predator lurking behind the Arctic ice. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a horrifying end, Captain Francis Crozier takes command, leading his surviving crewmen on a last desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.But another winter is rapidly approaching, and with it, scurvy and starvation. Crozier and his men may find that there is no escaping the terror stalking them southward. And with the crushing cold and the fear of almost certain death at their backs, the most horrifying monster among them may be each other.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2012. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe hardcover edition. From the publisher: This is a companion novella to the New Amsterdam Series. For centuries, the wampyr has drifted from one place to another. From one life to another. It's 1962, and he's returned to New Amsterdam for the first time since he fled it on pain of death some sixty years before. On the eve of social revolution, on the cusp of a new way of life, he's nevertheless surrounded by inescapable reminders of who he used to be. For a thousand years, he's chosen to change rather than to die. Now, at last, he faces a different future…