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Allen, Mary Ann: THE ANGRY DEAD. Uncasville, CT: R. H. Fawcett, 2000. First Edition, hardcover, as new in dustwrapper. Limited to 350 copies.Ghost stories in the manner of M. R. James by a leading Jamesian scholar. A dozen shocking spirits illustrated throughout by Wendy Wees, book design by Rhonda Boothe.
Mary Ann Allen is the nom de plume of England's Haunted Library founder and publisher Rosemary Pardoe, whose press was first to present neo-Jamesian ghost stories by most of the modern masters of the form, in her long-running magazine Ghosts and Scholars.
Many of G & S's authors now have fine hardcover editions of their works from The Ghost Story Press, Ash-Tree Press, & Sarob Press. It can be said without the tiniest speck of hyperbole that Rosemary Pardoe is the true mother of the modern Jamesian revival, and the authors she cultivated already stand among the most collectible weird fictioneers living.
Her own personal output of Jamesian ghost stories stands at the upper end of chilling excellence. You can read Jim Rockhill's review of this collection Here.
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Burke, Thomas: THE GOLDEN GONG & OTHER NIGHT-PIECES & UNPLEASANTRIES. British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover limited to 500 copies. As New in dustjacket. A big amazing collection edited, with long introduction, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. SIGNED by Jessica.Thomas Burke wrote mysteries and horrors set in London's famous Chinatown district, Limehouse, and in the working class dock districts of London.
The stories range from the Jack the Ripper variation "The Hands of Mr. Ottermole" which a committee of mystery writers (including Anthony Boucher, John Dickson Carr and "Ellery Queen") declared to be the most perfect mystery story of all time; to such Limehouse tragedies as the supernatural horror yarns "The Bird" and "The Tablets of the House of Li"; to the almost Lovecraftian tale of "The Horrible God"; to elegant ghost stories and the weird novella "The Bloomsbury Wonder," plus many others.
A major monograph "The Tenderly Sadistic Vision of Thomas Burke" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson serves as introduction, plus there is an historical Afterword by Thomas's publisher Grant Richards reminiscing about his friend. There is a frontis portrait of Burke and other illustrative material.
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Hawthorne, Julian: THE ROSE OF DEATH & OTHER MYSTERIOUS DELUSIONS. British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. First Edition, hardcover, As New in dustjacket. Limited to 500 copies.SIGNED by editor, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, who contributed a lengthy introductory monograph, "Gothic Magician: The Life and Supernatural Tales of Julian Hawthorne."
A fragment of the monograph can be read on-line for free, this portion entitled "Nathaniel Hawthorne's Son: Julian Hawthorne's Beginings & Beliefs."
This collection includes the vampire classic "Ken's Mystery," the gothic horror novella "Kildhurm's Oak," & mystically bizarre & Decadent "The New Endymion."
Additional weird tales are: "The Delusion of Ralph Penwyn," "Dr Pechal's Theory," "The Spirit of the Dance," & "The Rose of Death."
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Jessopp, Rev. Augustus: THE PHANTOM COACH: AN ANTIQUARY'S GHOST STORIES. Uncasville, CT: R. H. Fawcett, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover limited to 400 copies. As New in dustjacket. Illustrated by Wendy Wees. Interior art by Wees.A collection of Victorian ghost stories by a friend of M. R. James. Edited with an Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. SIGNED by Jessica.
Jessica's introduction "An Antiquary of Arcady: Augustus Jessopp, the friend of M. R. James" can be read on-line for free.
In the words of M. R. James' biographer R. W. Pfaff, Jessopp was "a fine specimen of the learned but somewhat eccentric country parson. His "An Antiquary's Ghost Story" is moderately well known, but few people are aware that he composed others in the final decade of the nineteenth century. "
He and MRJ became friends when they collaborated on their remarkable study and translation of the 12th century Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich by Thomas of Monmouth (1896) which MRJ discovered in a Suffolk church. MRJ almost certainly read "An Antiquary's Ghost Story" in advance of composing his own vastly more famed Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
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Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, editor: HEROIC VISIONS. New York: Ace Books, 1983. First Edition. Fine wraps. SIGNED by the anthologist.All new tales of heroic fantasy by Michael Bishop, F. M. Busby, Grania Davis, Dordon Derry, Alan Dean Foster, Charles E. Karpuk, Phyllis Ann Karr, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Jane Yolen, and the first appearance of Fritz Leiber's Fahfrd & Grey Mouser story "The Curse of the Smalls & the Stars."
Introduction "A Meditation on Strength" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson reads in part: "Heroic Fantasy has been denounced as backward-looking (while science fiction is forward-looking), yet our scientists look to stars named for ancient gods & heroes, & there can never be a fiction or a populace with any imagination about the future if they lack an imagination about the past. We are rooted both directions in time. The plain truth is that the finest stories throughout recorded history have been heroic fantasies."
Price SIGNED by anthologist: $8.50
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