Isbn: 9780970734945 - Fingers of Fear (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. First edition thus, hardcover, marked limited no. 453/460, has a slight lean to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends, and a touch of shelfwear to the cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has a hint of shelfwear to the spine ends and corners, and some mild rubbing. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A handsome reprinting of this 1937 gothic classic, edited and with an intro by Douglas A. Anderson.

Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 460 copies of which this is one 450 numbered copies offered for sale. A reprint of a novel first published in 1937 by Covici, Friede, Publishers. A tale of mystery and horror set in New England at the ancestral home of the Ormes family "which, lost in one of the wildest and most isolated reaches of the Berkshires, was the topic of whispered and fearful comment by the natives for miles around." ". an outrageous horror novel done with admirable panache. A brief plot synopsis would be impossible (not to mention improbable), but hauntings, vampirism, incest, lycanthropy, dead babies, and sexual deviance provide only some of the mayhem confronting the cowardly hero at Ormesby. The book can be read straight, or straight up, but it certainly makes a stylish, literate exercise in grand guignol horror." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 300. "Piles horror upon horror until there is not a shiver left in the reader's spine." - New York Times. "Horror laid on thick . Written forty years too early. Today it would make a fine horror film." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1233. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#177077).…