MIDNIGHT TALES ... Edited with an Introduction by Maurice Richardson

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty of the author's uncanny tales selected from MIDNIGHT HOUSE (1910), THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1928), and MOODS AND TENSES (1933). This collection was published later in the U.S. as THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS... (1947). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-81. See Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1532-35. A fine copy in bright, very good dust jacket with wear and small chip at head of spine panel, several closed tears at tail of spine panel with fraying and slight loss at bottom edge, and light wear at corner tips. (#96489) (Inventory #: 96489)