Arkham's Masters of Horror

Octavo. First edition. One of 4,000 copies printed. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Original pictorial dust jacket. Book and jacket exceptionally well preserved, with bright gilt, clean boards, sharp corners, and a fresh interior. Jacket bright and crisp, without significant rubbing, chipping, or tears. A retrospective anthology celebrating sixty years of Arkham House, edited and annotated by Peter Ruber. Collects classic weird fiction by Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, and other Arkham House authors, together with excerpts from H. P. Lovecraft's correspondence with August Derleth. Includes Ruber's substantial historical introduction and biographical essays on the contributors. An attractive first-edition copy of an important Arkham House retrospective.