Tales of the wonderfully weird and superbly supernatural, with titles by well-known masters of the genre to all too often overlooked & unsung geniuses and one-hit wonders.
Weird & Supernatural
drawn from various trials...edited by the Rev. Montague Summers
n.p., John Rodker, 1929.
One of 1275 copies. 8vo. Title-page printed in red & black, rubricated initials. Original boards with paper-covered covers. Dust-jacket, priced 25/-.
First published in 1590, An Examen of Witches describes the witch trials conducted by Boguet and includes a chapter on the procedure necessary to a judge in trials for witchcraft. It is one of a group of important witchcraft texts published by John Rodker (who also issued Summers's translation of the Malleus Maleficarum), a publisher often associated with modernist works & authors.
Weird & Supernatural
A Study of Master Matthew Hopkins commonly call'd Witch Finder Generall...together with a Reprint of The Discovery of Witches from the rare original of 1647
London, at The Cayme Press, 1928.
First edition. Small 4to. Original wrappers with printed title label to upper cover.
Summers' introductory narration on Matthew Hopkins's The Discovery of Witches, an essay by the notorious seventeenth-century witch hunter who was the driving force behind the execution of more than a hundred alleged witches in the 1640s.
Weird & Supernatural
Twenty-One Tales London, Percival Marshall, [1951].First edition, first impression. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.Rare collection of weird tales by Irish author Barker, perhaps best known for his ghost story 'Whessoe'. Inscribed by him to the front free endpaper.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Arthur Barker, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Second issue dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A dark Gothic novel set on a Cornish farm, Raven's Brood centres on old John Pentreath's fear of God and love of the flesh & drink - a far cry from the work usually associated with the author of the Mapp & Lucia series. Rare in the jacket.
Weird & Supernatural
or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers
London, T.C. Newby, 1849.
[Second edition]. 8vo. Modern cloth.
One of two anthologies of supposedly true ghost stories by Crowe, originally published the previous year and considered one of the first serious collections of this sort. Rare.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Selwyn & Blount, 1926.
First edition, third impression. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 2/- and stating 'third edition'.
The first volume in Thomson's landmark 'Not at Night' anthology series, which ran to eleven volumes (1925–1937) and introduced British readers to American pulp weird fiction from Weird Tales and similar magazines. The series was highly influential in shaping British taste for supernatural horror and is a cornerstone collection in the history of the genre. This copy is the first edition, third impression with contemporary dust-jacket, which is notably scarce.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1901.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A seemingly extremely rare collection of 'barrack room' short stories, some with supernatural content. Only four copies recorded in institutional holdings (all in the UK), and no records found at auction. An introductory note from the author reads:
"The following stories are chiefly based upon incidents and experiences connected with a rather lengthened professional career. It is hoped that the book may serve to enliven a dull hour, and may perhaps also enhance the widespread interest recently revived in all phases of military life. Some of the stories have already appeared in The United Service Magazine and The Church Monthly."
Weird & Supernatural
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1940.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A prolific playwright, drama critic and author active in English literary circles from around 1910. This ghost story is one of the author's few dalliances with the supernatural.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Dent, 1919.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Rare. A collection of psychic tales, mostly dealing with astral projection, out-of-body experiences and, in some cases, travel to 'other worlds'. Allen Clarke (1863–1935), also known under the pseudonym Teddy Ashton, was primarily a working-class journalist and novelist of Lancashire industrial life.
Weird & Supernatural
A Two-Fold Romance
London; New York; Toronto, John Lane The Bodley Head; John Lane Company; Bell & Cockburn, 1914.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A late, mostly epistolary novel set partly in the 20th century and partly in the 17th, involving communications between the bewitching Lady Venetia and a young archaeologist, with hints of the supernatural. Paget's last novel.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Selwyn & Blount, [1934].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
The tenth of the eleven 'Not at Night' anthology series, featuring first book appearances of Robert E. Howard's 'Rogues in the House,' August Derleth's 'The Metronome,' and the Lovecraft collaboration 'The Horror in the Museum' attributed to Hazel Heald.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Jonathan Cape, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
One of Morton's Beachcomber collections published under his own name rather than the pseudonym, gathering the comic whimsies, parodies, spoof news items and surreal sketches featuring his recurring characters.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Heinemann, 1929.
New impression. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A mystical supernatural novel of reincarnation: the village eccentric and egomaniac Peregrine Sark brings back a terracotta figure of the goddess Cybele to his English country house and becomes dangerously absorbed in worshipping the deity. Attractive jacket artwork by commercial and graphic artist Keely.
Weird & Supernatural
Boston, Mass., Ruth Hill, 1934.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.A short novel and apparently the only mystery title by an author better known for her work in the American theatre, including for her acquisition of the old Diamond Paper Mill in Millburn, New Jersey, which she subsequently transformed into the Paper Mill Playhouse. The publisher, Ruth Hill of Boston, was a very small imprint of the period specialising in limited and semi-private literary productions.
Weird & Supernatural
London [&c.], Cassell, 1926.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A collection of short stories by an author & playwright best known for his association with mythic tales such as 'The Wandering Jew' and 'The Flying Dutchman'.
Weird & Supernatural
London, for J. Andrews, 1823.
First edition. 8vo. Original paper-covered boards with later title-label affixed to spine.
A significant and now rather scarce compilation belonging to a small cluster of serious ghost-narrative anthologies published in the 1820s. Jarvis is otherwise unknown, and the name may be a nom de plume.
Weird & Supernatural
London, J.M. Dent, 1910.
First edition. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original cloth decorated & lettered in gilt.
The first collection of short fiction by William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937), a writer now firmly established in the canon of British supernatural and horror fiction. The collection contains sixteen tales of the weird and supernatural, and is notable above all for containing the first appearance of "August Heat", a story about two men, unknown to each other, whose contemplation of each other's possible future suggests that one will be murdered and the other will be the murderer.
Weird & Supernatural
A Chapter from a Family Chronicle
London, Chapman & Hall, 1889.
One-shilling edition. 8vo. Original pictorial boards, priced one shilling.
An early edition, originally published the previous year, of this ghostly tale about a family curse, written by the Rector of St Alban's, Manchester and later Canon of Worcester Cathedral, author also of The Broken Vow (1887). Scarce in the original boards.
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Weird & Supernatural
London, Ward & Downey, [1888].
First collected edition. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth lettered in gilt to spine.
"A general collection containing Riddell's fine supernatural short story, 'The last of Squire Enmismore'." (Shadows in the Attic, p.423).
Weird & Supernatural
A Romance
London, Trischler & Company, 1891.
'Third Thousand'. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered & decorated in yellow.
A weird novel of supernatural possession in which the soul of the dead Countess Agnes Adrian, a femme fatale who has studied occultism in the East, displaces the soul of a young American actress; a kind of vampirism.
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Weird & Supernatural
A collection of uneasy tales
London, Philip Allan, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
Published by Philip Allan as part of the celebrated 'Creeps' series, Tales of Death gathers macabre and supernatural stories from multiple authors under excellent editorial guidance, extending the interwar tradition of shilling shocker anthologies.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Philip Allan, 1935.
First edition, early issue. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
'Tales from a land which is still veiled by occult powers where things are felt but not seen. Unusual and uncanny happenings by a well-known Oriental writer' (jacket blurb). An uncommon title from the Allan stable, who also produced the 'Creep' series.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Robert Hale, 1959.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
'Being four strange stories from the casebook of Dr. Miles Pennoyer, Psychic Doctor. Recorded by his friend and occasional assistant Jerome Latimer.'
Weird & Supernatural
London, Published by the author, 1938.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Fortune's fourth novel, often regarded as her most important work of fiction. An exploration of magic and the Great Goddess, she writes 'This is a book with an undercurrent: upon the surface a romance; underneath a thesis upon the theme: "All women are Isis, and Isis is all women"'.
Weird & Supernatural
London, The Literary Press Limited, n.d. [c.1902].
Early UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket.
The attempted conversion of a celebrated courtesan by the ascetic monk Paphnuce, a mission that exposes the instability of faith, desire and spiritual pride. One of France's best-known works.
Weird & Supernatural
Westminster, A. Constable & Co., 1894.
First edition, issued as part of the Acme library series. Small 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered and stamped in gilt.
A fine portrait of the lingering belief in the occult that haunted the Victorian Age. The story explores themes of psychological manipulation and control, as the main character finds himself caught in a disturbing and dangerous situation, while struggling to maintain his scientific rationality and personal relationships.
Weird & Supernatural
and other stories of the supernatural
London, John Murray, 1903.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth lettered in gilt to spine.
A notable collection of American ghost stories by Mary E. Wilkins (later Wilkins Freeman), whose work brought psychological depth and New England atmosphere to supernatural fiction; a respected voice in late-Victorian/Edwardian weird literature. Wilkins is now recognised as a key work in the tradition that fuses domestic realism with the ghost story, frequently cited in modern horror and fantasy bibliographies.
Weird & Supernatural
seven stories and a play London, Chatto & Windus, 1935.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in silver. Dust-jacket.A collection of supernatural and eerie tales. Blends historical and Gothic elements, showing Irwin's talent for uncanny atmosphere.
Weird & Supernatural
and other stories New York, Doubleday & Company, 1970.First US edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to Richard [Dalby], with accompanying typed letter to the same signed by the author. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced $3.95.A collection of short stories displaying Aiken's characteristic blend of historical imagination, folklore tone, and quiet strangeness... An attractive association copy, having been sent by the author to the editor and literary researcher Richard Dalby, famous for his anthologies of ghost stories. Richard Dalby was a known collector and editor who had a significant professional relationship with Aiken, who frequently inscribed and signed her books for him. Aiken's story 'The Traitor' appeared in Dalby's 1992 anthology Modern Ghost Stories, and this letter would suggest that they were considering further stories by her to similarly anthologise.
Weird & Supernatural
Saxon (Peter, pseud. W. Howard Baker) The Vampires of Finistere
London, Howard Baker, 1970.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21/-.
A horror/occult novel involving a sinister cult and vampirism set on the remote coast of Brittany; part of the broader late-60s/early-70s British pulp-horror wave. "Peter Saxon" was a house pseudonym used by various writers for Remploy/Howard Baker imprints, most often by W. Howard Baker himself, to whom this book is most often attributed.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Attractive jacket artwork graces this uncommon, posthumously published mystery novel by Marxist writer, literary critic, intellectual and activist St John Sprigg.
Weird & Supernatural
Edinburgh & London, Moray Press, 1937.
Reprint. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Robert Marshall's 1902 novella centres on pompous Major Jacky Gore, who challenges champion golfer Jim Lindsay in order to impress an American heiress. A ghostly Cardinal lends him enchanted clubs, but the humorous match yields an unexpected outcome, satirising Victorian sports and supernatural tales.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Herbert Jenkins, [1921].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/-.
The author's first book, a colonial adventure, subtitled in some editions 'A Story of Malaya', involves a young woman with an affinity for magic and two contrasting Englishmen on a rubber plantation.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Stanley Paul, 1926.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Uncommon title, especially signed, with werewolf elements.
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Weird & Supernatural
Hansom (Mark, pseud. Ronald Muirden) The Shadow on the House
New York, William Godwin, Inc., [1935].
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
"Weird thriller in which the narrator is apparently possessed by the spirit of an insane ancestor." (Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy p104). Rare, especially in the jacket.
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Weird & Supernatural
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., n.d. [c.1931].
'Library Edition'. 8vo. Original dark red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A collection of Farnol's shorter fiction, originally published in 1929; including the tale 'Black coffee' with it is Ancient Egyptian themes. A popular author for weird & supernatural anthologies. Scarce in the jacket. Stories featured:
The Shadow.--Captain Hector.--Retribution.--The heir.--Black coffee.--Upon a day.--A boy and the man.--An episode.--Jasper Railton.--The cupboard.--Fortune's fool.--A change of mind.--Journey's end.--The great quietude.--Sir Pertolepe the Red.--The divine Phyllidia.--A woman's reason.
![Christine Campbell Thomson, At Dead of Night, First edition, [1931].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87359-300x300.jpg)
Weird & Supernatural
London, Selwyn & Blount, [1931].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. In early impression dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
One of the most sought-after volumes in Christine Campbell Thomson's famous "Not at Night" anthology series, At Dead of Night collects stories of horror and the supernatural by a variety of pulp and weird-fiction writers, reinforcing the series' importance, not least in bringing American pulp horror to British audiences.
![Mark Hansom, Sorcerer's Chessmen, First edition,[1939].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87352-300x300.jpg)
Weird & Supernatural
London, Wright & Brown, [1939].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
One of the rare horror-fantasy novels by "Mark Hansom," the pseudonym of Ronald Muirden. Known for their occult and Gothic themes, Hansom's books are highly prized among collectors of supernatural fiction, with this title listed in Bleiler and Reginald bibliographies. The story blends the sinister and fantastic in pulp-era style, reflecting interwar British horror publishing trends. True firsts in dust-jacket are scarce and command interest amongst collectors of the weird and supernatural.
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Weird & Supernatural
A Collection of Uneasy Tales
London, Philip Allan, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original beige cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
The second volume in the 'Creeps' series, Shudders collects eleven "uneasy" horror stories by Birkin (under his own name and pseudonymous), H. R. Wakefield, Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell and others.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Selwyn & Blount, [1933].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
The ninth instalment in the Not at Night series assembles fifteen dark tales. The anthology opens with Oscar Cook's 'His Beautiful Hands' and includes stories by Henry S. Whitehead, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Clark Ashton Smith. Its most notable entry is Robert E. Howard's historical horror tale 'Worms of the Earth', which appears here in its first book form.
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Weird & Supernatural
A Collection of Uneasy Tales
London, Philip Allan, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
This anthology, fourth in Allan's 'Creeps' series, offers nine atmospheric horror stories, including Birkin's own 'Angela', blending psychological dread and grisly twists.
Weird & Supernatural
A Tale of the Seventeenth Century
Edinburgh, for Archibald Constable, 1817.
First edition. 3 vols, 8vo. Rebound in later two-tone boards in antique style.
A handsome set of this dark, Gothic historical novel tracing Charles Mandeville's descent from trauma - spurred by family loss, wrongful accusations at school and university, revolutionary turmoil, to mental breakdown and disfigurement in the Stewart-era England of the mid-1600s. The author's last novel, praised by Shelley and referenced by Poe.