SHOCKING TALES: AN ANTHOLOGY
Book Details + Condition: Current Books, Inc. / A A. Wyn, Publisher (New York). First Edition, 1946. Edited by Robert K. Brunner. Hardcover with dust jacket. Octavo. A collection of 31 stories of "evil triumphant", with tales by Guy de Maupassant, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Robert Maturin, Alphonse Daudet, Saki, Aldous Huxley, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, and others. More from the jacket: "Not for a child, or a grown-up child, are these tales of perversity, morbidity, revenge, and downright horror from the writings of the greatest literary figures of all times". In very good condition, with firm binding; bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket is also in very good condition - it retains its original price, and is now protected with a mylar cover.
