The "Creeps" Omnibus; containing Creeps, Shudders and Shivers in one volume

London: Philip Allan. Fair. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [considerable staining and fading to orange cloth covers, binding a little shaken, staining and age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's inked signature at top of front endpaper, another one-time owner's notes about place & date of purchase at top of half-title page, small check-marks next to all titles in table of contents]. Twenty-nine tales of horror and the macabre, most notable for its inclusion of six by Tod Robbins, among them "Spurs," undoubtedly his most famous story due to its notorious 1932 film adaptation, FREAKS. Contents: "Silent, White and Beautiful" (Robbins); "The Red Lodge" (H.R. Wakefield); "The Ghost Table" (Elliott O'Donnell); "Spurs" (Tod Robbins; basis for the notorious 1932 film FREAKS); "'He Cometh and He Passeth By'" (Wakefield); ""The Charnel House" (Philip Murray); "A Wager and a Ghost" (O'Donnell); "The Last Night" (Charles Lloyd); "Cockcrow Inn" (Robbins); "Or Persons Unknown" (Wakefield); "Toys" (Robbins); "Accusing Shadows" (O'Donnell); "Professor Pownall's Oversight" (Wakefield); "The Harlem Horror" (Lloyd); "The Trunk" (Murray); "The Third Coach" (Wakefield); "The Crimson Blind" (Mrs. Everett); "The Haunted Spinney" (O'Donnell); "The Patch" (Murray); "That Dieth Not" (Wakefield); "The 17th Hole at Duncaster" (Wakefield); "An Eye for an Eye" (Lloyd); "Wild Wullie the Waster" (Robbins); "The Death Mask" (Mrs. Everett); "The Ghost in the Ring" (O'Donnell); "The Poplar Tree" (Murray); "'And He Shall Sing...'" (Wakefield); "Who Wants a Green Bottle?" (Robbins); "The Tank of Death" (O'Donnell). .