![]() ![]() Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. "Ghost stories" would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it "Eldritch Books" because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so - eldritch). Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1139. A curiously under-rated collection, unaccountably dropped from the second edition of Bleiler's Checklist. "Atlantis' Exile" merits attention as of the very few successful ventures into a setting that, like the Sargasso Sea, has sucked in many writers only to strand them there. Of the fourteen stories here four or five count as supernatural horror and fantasy, using motifs of witchcraft, possession, vampirism and Atlantis. The first collection of short fiction by a successful fiction writer who soon headed out to Hollywood, where he became a successful screenwriter (Forbidden Planet is one of his credits). A fine copy in good decorative dust jacket with half-inch chip at tail of spine subtracting the imprint, minor v-chip at head of spine, scuffing and dustiness to front panel. Original purple decorative cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, title page printed in black and orange. Street of the Malcontents and Other Stories. ![]()
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