first edition
1946 · Sauk City, Wisconsin
by Whitehead, Henry S.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-367 [368: colophon] [369-370: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. 3037 copies printed. The author's posthumously published second collection of weird fiction, preceded by JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES (1944). Collects seventeen stories originally published in the pulps, mostly in WEIRD TALES. "Whitehead was a cut above the general run of pulp writers, and his stories feature some remarkable motifs, occasionally let down by inept plotting." - Brian Stableford. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-165. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-213. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1707. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-230. A fine copy in a dust jacket with the very weird age-darkening common to this jacket, which is otherwise fine. (#162654) (Inventory #: 162654)