Echo Curse by Ryan (9 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. O'Keefe, Gavin L. (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. O'Keefe, Gavin L. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Reprint of original published in 1938. Considered by some to be a masterpiece of supernatural horror. Some edgewear to rear cover. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 254 pp. O'Keefe, Gavin L. (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition Thus. One of 450 numbered copies. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Midnight House, Seattle, WA. , 2002. 365 pgs. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Horror thriller, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1939, of a family afflicted with a 'strain of the hyper-human . With one leg in the human world and one leg in the immaterial world.' In other words, some members become werewolves and after death, vampires. Govina, an extreme case, contemplates matricide and incest to fulfill his destiny. More confused but no less bizarre than his other thrillers, with a pronounced streak of eroticism associated with the violence. Possibly influenced by Endore's THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS, certainly similar under the pseudo-occult bunkum.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages. …

Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. 460 copies printed of which this is one of 450 numbered copies offered for sale. "Horror thriller, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1939, of a family afflicted with a 'strain of the hyper-human . with one leg in the human world and one leg in the immaterial world.' In other words, some members become werewolves and after death, vampires. Govina, an extreme case, contemplates matricide and incest to fulfill his destiny. More confused but no less bizarre than his other thrillers, with a pronounced streak of eroticism associated with the violence. Possibly influenced by Endore's THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS, certainly similar under the pseudo-occult bunkum." - Robert Knowlton. "Ryan's most ambitious book." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, p. 501. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 188. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 365. Reginald 12601. Hubin (1994), p. 710. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#177066).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Horror novel first published in 1939. On Karl Edward Wagner's of 39 best horror novels. #256/450 copies. Fine in Fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Midnight House edition; Supernatural novel originally published in 1939. #155/450 numbered copies. Fine in jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. The 2002 reprint of this macabre story originally published in 1939. A fine copy in purple cloth with gilt titles and a very good illustrated wrapper.