Very Rare New Arrivals and The Century’s Best

We have some very rare new arrivals and a must have new pre-order at Miskatonic Books!

To reserve or get more information on any of the titles below just click on the cover art.

The Century’s Best Horror Fiction
edited by John Pelan

About the Books:
Cemetery Dance Publications commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan.

John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year — all 100 stories were then collected in this amazing two volume set to be published as The Century’s Best Horror Fiction.

The ground rules were simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year.

Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, more than 700,000 words of fiction — history in the making!

Trade Edition hardcovers bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with a full color dust jacket — two deluxe volumes

 

NERO by Clark Ashton Smith and Signed, Hand Written Postcard by H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith

This letterpress chapbook was published by Roy A. Squires in 1964. This copy also comes with a hand written signed post card by H. P. Lovecaft 1933. This copy is still in its original publisher’s envelope and comes with a typed letter from the publisher The postcard also mentions occultist Aleister Crowley! Book Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. One of 450 copies bound in stiff salmon colored wrappers on handmade paper. Chapbook is in fine condition. .According to Chalker only 381 copies were actually printed.; 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall.

 

 

FROM THE CRYPTS OF MEMORY by Clark Ashton Smith (Limited Edition Letterpress)

Clark Ashton Smith. From the Crypts of Memory. [Glendale: Roy A. Squires], 1973. First edition limited to 198 copies hand-numbered on a limitation page at back. Color illustration by the author tipped-in. Folio. Unpaginated.Sewn brown wraps with textured glassine cover with titles in brown. Handmade paper, untrimmed edges.

This is number 21 of 198

Book is in fine condition in near fine printed envelope

 

 

 

THE DIVERSIFIER with Fritz Leiber, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch and more (May 1977 Digest)

Book Description: C.C. Clingan, Oroville, CA, U.S.A., 1977. Soft cover.

Book Condition: Near Fine.

Gary Kato (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo – over 7¾ – 9¾” tall. The best issue of this generally excellent small press periodical.

Fiction by Robert E. Howard (“Sea Curse”), Isaac Asimov (“Eyes Do More Than See”), Robert Bloch (“Slave of the Flames”), Gregory Nicholl (“The Man Who Collected Lovecraft”–a must read for HPL fans), Dean Wesley Smith (“Frankenstein Love”), Phillip C. Heath (“Beneath the Vaults of Sumarus”), and Brenda Watkinson (“Jasper’s Hollow”). Poetry by Hannes Bok (with a photo of Bok), Edith Ogutsch, G. Sutton Breiding (Rhysling Award-winning poet), Marc Laidlaw, and Michael Kellar. Articles include Manly Wade Wellman on H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price on Edmond Hamilton, Fritz Leiber on Weird Tales, and Billy Wolfenbarger on Weird Tales. Guest editorial by Robert Weinberg. Reviews by Gordon Linzner and Arthur Rahman. Art by Gary Kato (cover & full-page interior illos), Allen Koszowski, Joseph A. West, Cliff Kurowski, Mark Gelotte, A.B. Cox, Rick Harrison, Craig Anderson, Stephen Riley, and Harry O. Morris.

 

WHAT THE MOON BRINGS by H. P. Lovecraft (Limited Edition Letterpress)

Published in 1970 by letterpress publisher Roy A. Squires

Limited to 125 copies this being number 87

Printed on custom made paper and hand bound in aqua blue custom wraps in printed envelope.

Book is in fine condition in a near fine envelope. Envelope has “HPL Prose Poem #87″ neatly written on the bottom back flap in neat print else fine

 

 

 

Thomas Ligotti and Reggie Oliver Almost Sold Out and a New Titles Announced by Tartarus Press

We wanted to bring your attention to two important titles that are already sold out at the publisher and we are down to only a couple copies remaining.  If you haven’t reserved your copies do so soon.  You can always use the “bill me” at check out on all advance orders so you don’t have to pay until the book is read to ship, each order gets 5% back in points and only $5 shipping no matter what size the order.

THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN by Thomas Ligotti limited edition hardcover.

This new edition of Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant vignettes is a cause for celebration. Not only has the text been substantially revised by Thomas Ligotti, but artist Harry O. Morris has created eleven new artworks for the book. The text is gorgeously set and designed. Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
The book also has a new introduction by Ligotti. It comes bound in printed cloth with a back panel velvet cloth, two ribbon markers, and is housed in a handsome slipcase.
The edition is limited to 500 copies for sale.

• Limited to 500 copies, each signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
• New introduction by Thomas Ligotti.
• Substantially revised texts.
• New artwork, all printed in full color.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
• Two-color cloth slipcase.

 

MRS MIDNIGHT AND OTHER STORIES by Reggie Oliver (Limited Edition Hardcover)

A TV reality show host helps to restore an East End music hall and uncovers the dreadful secret of Mrs Midnight and her Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. . . . The Master of an Oxford college tries to introduce a dubious piece of modern sculpture into his college chapel with dire consequences. . . . A strange meeting takes place on a playing field between an officer on leave from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s fifth collection of ‘strange’ stories are as varied and unusual as ever, though, as in previous volumes, the theatre forms the milieu of a number of his tales. But the theatres are not just English ones, in the provinces and the West End: one is on the Black Sea; another in post-colonial Kenya. Themes are equally varied, but underlying all is a deep sense of the spiritual under-currents just below the surface of everyday existence, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.
‘…by miles, the best living exponent of the spooky yarn,’ Barry Humphries.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.

Mrs Midnight and Other Stories contains:

• “Mrs Midnight”
• “Countess Otho”
• “Meeting with Mike”
• “The Dancer in the Dark”
• “Mr Pigsny”
• “The Brighton Redemption”
• “You Have Nothing to Fear”
• “The Philosophy of the Damned”
• “The Mortlake Manuscript”
• “The Look”
• “The Giacometti Crucifixion”
• “A Piece of Elsewhere”
• “Minos or Rhadamanthus”

Mrs Midnight and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 381 pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 400 copies.

 

Newly announced from Tartarus Press CLARIMONDE AND OTHER STORIES by Theophile Gautier (Limited Edition Hardcover)

If you appreciate supernatural French Decadence, then you need look no further than Clarimonde and Other Stories by Théophile Gautier. A pioneer of the genre, Gautier (1811-1872) garnered his initial enthusiasm for supernatural literature from the stories of E.TA. Hoffman, adding an erotic effusiveness all his own. Gautier’s trail-blazing manifesto for Romanticism was taken up by numerous other writers, most notably by Charles Baudelaire, who in 1857 dedicated Les Fleurs du mal to him.

The twelve stories in this volume repre-sent the best of Gautier’s fantastic tales and deal with a wide range of supernatural phenomena, including identity exchange (in ‘Avatar’), vampirism, time travel, the evil eye, and the decadence of ancient Egypt (in ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’). Most of the translations are by the Irish-American writer Lafcadio Hearn, and retain the ardent extravagance of Gautier’s original French style.

As Brian Stableford says in his new Introduction, ‘Gautier remains . . . a key writer in the evolution of fantastic fiction from its Gothic roots to its psychological sophistication, whose importance in the middle part of the nineteenth century . . . deserves to be ranked second [only to Poe].’

Clarimonde and Other Stories contains:

• ‘Introduction’ by Brian Stableford,
• ‘Onuphrius’
• ‘Two Actors for One Part’
• ‘Omphale’, ‘Clarimonde’
• ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’
• ‘The Opium Pipe’
• ‘The Duplicated Knight’
• ,‘The Mummy’s Foot’
• ‘King Candaules’
• ‘Arria Marcella’
• ‘Jettatura’
• ‘Avatar’, and various addenda.

Clarimonde and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 366+xiii pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 300 copies.
Publication 21st October 2011

 

Three Awesome New Titles Just Announced

Remember that all preorders from Miskatonic Bookstore do not require prepayment. You can always choose “Bill Me” at checkout for “preorders only”. Also with every purchase you will receive points that can be used towards future purchases.  For more information on our points system and methods of payment please see our FAQ section.

MASTERS OF THE WEIRD TALE: Karl Edward Wagner  (Signed Limited Edition)

With over 700 pages, including all of Karl Edward Wagner’s horror fiction, this is one of the best, most impeccably proofed and designed in our Masters of the Weird Tale series. This collection includes “Sticks,” “Where the Summer Ends,” “In the Pines”; in sum, all of the horror fiction. Feel free to email us for a list of the stories as a PDF file, or click here to download it yourself.
This collection has a color cover by J.K. Potter and over ten full-page, full-color interior illustrations by Potter as well. The book is edited and introduced by Stephen Jones, has an additional introduction by Peter Straub, a remembrance by David Drake, and a new afterword by Laird Barron. The introductions are profusely illustrated with pictures of Karl in both black & white and color.
The edition is limited to 200 copies for sale. Each numbered copy is signed by Stephen Jones, J.K. Potter, Peter Straub, Laird Barron, and David Drake.
Each book is fully bound in cloth and comes in a handsome two-tone slipcase to match your other volumes in the Masters of the Weird Tale series.

• Limited to 200 copies.
• Introductions by Stephen Jones and Peter Straub.
• New color illustrations by J.K. Potter.
• Signed by J.K. Potter, Stephen Jones, Peter Straub, Laird Barron and David Drake.
• Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN by Thomas Ligotti (Signed Limited Edition)

This new edition of Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant vignettes is a cause for celebration. Not only has the text been substantially revised by Thomas Ligotti, but artist Harry O. Morris has created eleven new artworks for the book. The text is gorgeously set and designed. Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
The book also has a new introduction by Ligotti. It comes bound in printed cloth with a back panel velvet cloth, two ribbon markers, and is housed in a handsome slipcase.
The edition is limited to 500 copies for sale.

• Limited to 500 copies, each signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
• New introduction by Thomas Ligotti.
• Substantially revised texts.
• New artwork, all printed in full color.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
• Two-color cloth slipcase.

THE GOLEM by Gustav Meyrink (Signed Limited Edition)

In the 1970s, the German psychedelic artist Helmut Wenske completed a cycle of twelve paintings based on Gustav Meyrink’s mystical classic, The Golem. For the first time these paintings are being published with the novel that served as their inspiration. Critic John Clute has written an introduction to the book, which uses Madge Pemberton’s hallucinogenic translation. Includes a photograph of Meyrink and other extras, including a bonus story.
In an oversize 8 × 12 format with printed silk panels on both the front and rear boards, head and tail bands, ribbon marker, and a two-color cloth slipcase. Each book is signed by John Clute and Helmut Wenske. Limited to 200 copies

•     Limited to 200 copies, each signed by John Clute and Helmut Wenske.
•     Introduction by John Clute.
•     Full color artwork.
•     Film stills and movie poster artwork.
•     Two bonus short stories.
•     Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.