M. Graham Black

Manguel, Alberto (ed) -Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, L. P. Hartley, M. R. James, Jorge Luis Borges, Isak Dinesen, W. W. Jacobs, Brian Moore, Lord Dunsany, Ursula K. LeGuin, Franz Kafka, Howard Fast, J. B. Priestley, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, ++++: Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature -A Visit to the Museum, The Pagan Rabbi, The Bureau d'Echange de Maux, The Large Ant, Tattoo, The Monkey's Paw, The Door in the Wall, Seaton's Aunt, The Friends of the Friends, Climax for a Ghost Story + Toronto, ON, Canada Lester & Orpen Dennys 1983
ISBN: 0886190312 Very Good Plus Uncredited Cover Artist

-----Large format soft cover (not large print), (xix) 967 pages, flat spine, minor edge wear, no names. Contents include: Foreword / House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar / How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens / Climax for a Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland / The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams / Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton / Venetian Masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares / The Wish House by Rudyard Kipling / The Playground by Ray Bradbury / Importance by Manuel Mujica Lainez / Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm / A Visitor from Down Under by L,. P. Hartley / Laura by Saki / An Injustice Revealed - Anonymous / A Little Place off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene / From 'A School Story' by M. R. James / The Signalman by Charles Dickens / The Tall Woman by Pedre Antonio de Alarcon / A Scent of Mimosa by Francis King / Death and the Gardener by Jean Cocteau / Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham / The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit by Giovanni Papini / Insomnia by Virgilio Pinera / The Storm by Jules Verne / A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Enterainments) - Anonymous / The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe / Split Second by Daphne du Maurier / The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga / The Grey Ones by J. B. Priestley / The Lemmings by Alex Comfort / The Large Ant by Howard Fast / A Dog in Durer's Etching 'The Knight, Death and the Devil' by Marco Denevi / In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka / The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin / The Bureau d'Echange de Maux by Lord Dunsany / The Fisherman & his Soul by Oscar Wilde / The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozuck / Clorinda by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues / The Sight by Brian Moore / August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges / How Wang-Fo Was Saved by Marguerite Yourcenar / From 'Peter and Rosa' by Isak Dinesen / Tattoo by Junichiro Tanizaki / John Duffy's Brother by Flann O'Brien / Lady Into Fox by David Garnett / Father's Last Escape by Bruno Schulz / A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse / The Argentine Ant by Ital Calvino / The Lady on the Grey by John Collier / The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin / Of a Promise Kept by Lafcadio Hearn / The Wizard Postponed by Juan Mauet / The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs / The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson / The Rocking-horse Winner by D. H. Lawrnce / Certain Distant Suns by Joanne Greenburg / The Third Bank of the River by Joao Guimares Rosa / Home by Hilaire Belloc / The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells / The Friends by Silvina Ocampo / Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charle Williams / The Captives of Longjumeau by Leon Bloy / The Visit to the Museum by Vladmimor Nabokov / 'Autumn Mountain' by Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Seaton's Aunt by Walter de la Mare / The Friends of Friends by Henry James / The Traveling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen / The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet / The State of Grace by Marcel Ayme / The Story of a Panic by E. M. Forster / The Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock / From the 'American Notebooks' by Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Dream by O Henry / The Authors. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo 1st Edition 1st Printing Soft Cover 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

[SW: -----Large format soft cover (not large print), (xix) 967 pages, flat spine, minor edge wear, no names. Contents include: Foreword / House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar / How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens / Climax for a Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland / The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams / Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton / Venetian Masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares / The Wish House by Rudyard Kipling / The Playground by Ray Bradbury / Importance by Manuel Mujica Lainez / Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm / A Visitor from Down Under by L,. P. Hartley / Laura by Saki / An Injustice Revealed - Anonymous / A Little Place off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene / From 'A School Story' by M. R. James / The Signalman by Charles Dickens / The Tall Woman by Pedre Antonio de Alarcon / A Scent of Mimosa by Francis King / Death and the Gardener by Jean Cocteau / Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham / The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit by Giovanni Papini / Insomnia by Virgilio Pinera / The Storm by Jules Verne / A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Enterainments) - Anonymous / The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe / Split Second by Daphne du Maurier / The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga / The Grey Ones by J. B. Priestley / The Lemmings by Alex Comfort / The Large Ant by Howard Fast / A Dog in Durer's Etching 'The Knight, Death and the Devil' by Marco Denevi / In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka / The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin / The Bureau d'Echange de Maux by Lord Dunsany / The Fisherman & his Soul by Oscar Wilde / The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozuck / Clorinda by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues / The Sight by Brian Moore / August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges / How Wang-Fo Was Saved by Marguerite Yourcenar / From 'Peter and Rosa' by Isak Dinesen / Tattoo by Junichiro Tanizaki / John Duffy's Brother by Flann O'Brien / Lady Into Fox by David Garnett / Father's Last Escape by Bruno Schulz / A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse / The Argentine Ant by Ital Calvino / The Lady on the Grey by John Collier / The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin / Of a Promise Kept by Lafcadio Hearn / The Wizard Postponed by Juan Mauet / The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs / The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson / The Rocking-horse Winner by D. H. Lawrnce / Certain Distant Suns by Joanne Greenburg / The Third Bank of the River by Joao Guimares Rosa / Home by Hilaire Belloc / The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells / The Friends by Silvina Ocampo / Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charle Williams / The Captives of Longjumeau by Leon Bloy / The Visit to the Museum by Vladmimor Nabokov / 'Autumn Mountain' by Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Seaton's Aunt by Walter de la Mare / The Friends of Friends by Henry James / The Traveling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen / The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet / The State of Grace by Marcel Ayme / The Story of a Panic by E. M. Forster / The Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock / From the 'American Notebooks' by Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Dream by O Henry / The Authors. , Lester & Orpen Dennys , "Fantastic tales hint at the half-forgotten dreams of our imagination. They are the "impossible seeping into the possible" of our everyday world, what Wllace Stevens calls "black water breaking into reality". Here, amongst these stories spanning many ages and countries, we find a house slowly taken over by something unmentionable; a good Christian whom God rewards with a halo to wear during his lifetime, much to his wife's embarrasment; a menage 'a trois of which the third party is a ghost..." Fantasy and Science Fiction]

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Evans, Christopher; Holdstock, Robert (editors) (Tanith Lee; Lisa Tuttle; Michael Moorcock; Keith Roberts; David Langford; David S. Garnett; R. M. Lamming; Garry Kilworth; Graham Charnock; Brian Aldiss; Ian Watson; M. John Harrison): OTHER EDENS (1) (i) One: Scarrowfell; Crying in the Rain; The Wound; The Frozen Cardinal; Piper's Wait; In the Land of Sand and Ruin and Gold; Moonlighter; Sanctity; Small Heirlooms; The Black Wedding; Murderer's Walk; Hogfoot Right and Bird Hands, London Unwin Paperbacks 1987
ISBN: 0048233781 Very Good Jim Burns;

(ix) 235 pp. Light creasing on the corners with some creasing on the spine; store stamped. Cover art by Jim Burns. This anthology contains: Crying in the Rain by Tanith Lee; The Wound by Lisa Tuttle; The Frozen Cardinal by Michael Moorcock; Piper's Wait by Keith Roberts; In the Land of Sand and Ruin and Gold by David Langford; Moonlighter by David S. Garnett; Sanctity by R. M. Lamming; Triptych: The Black Wedding; Murderers Walk; and Hogfoot Right and Bird Hands by Garry Kilworth; Fullwood's Web by Graham Charnock; The Price of Cabbages by Brian Aldiss; The Emir's Clock by Ian Watson; Small Heirlooms by M. John Harrison; The Facts of Life by Christopher Evans; and Scarrowfell by Robert Holdstock. Scans are available for all books. First Paperback Printing Soft Cover

[SW: speculative; collectible; collectable;]

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Rae, Hugh, preface. (Graham Petrie, Bernard MacLaverty, James Shaw Grant, Alan Spence, Una Flett, Robert A. Crampsey, Cambell Black, Arthur Young, Carl MacDougall, Peter Chaloner, Lorn M. Macintyre, Alan Mason, Alanna Knight, Anne Turner, et al.). SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1978.. Collins, London, (1978), Ist edition.,
191 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. A collection of short stories written by Scottish writers or writers living in Scotland - Graham Petrie, Bernard MacLaverty, James Shaw Grant, Alan Spence, Una Flett, Robert A. Crampsey, Cambell Black, Arthur Young, Carl MacDougall, Peter Chaloner, Lorn M. Macintyre, Alan Mason, Alanna Knight, Anne Turner, Richard Fletcher and P.M. Hubbard. Biographical notes at rear. Minor wrinkles at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edgewear, three sma l l tears up to 1/2", minor edge wrinkling/rubbing, tiny light mark to fore-edge of textblock. VG+/VG.

[SW: SHORT STORIES SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL GRAHAM PETRIE BERNARD MACLAVERTY,]

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Walters, Minette: The Shape of Snakes, Putnam Adult July 19, 2001 ISBN: 0399147330
,,Twenty years ago, M. Ranelagh found her Graham Road neighbor dying in a gutter. "Mad Annie" Butts, long persecuted for being black and for suffering from Tourette's syndrome, had had her skull shattered. So deeply did Annie's death--ruled an accident--affect M. that she has spent the last two decades secretly amassing proof that it was murder, and that the murderer lived in Graham Road. Her collection of evidence faithfully teases out the serpentine deceptions--and self-deceptions--woven into Annie's death; husband Sam, neighbors, friends, family, police, all are grist for the mill of M.'s occasionally unscrupulous research:\n\nI suppose everyone has a pet subject that triggers their anger--with me it was my mother's wicked talent for stirring, with Sam it was his fear of Mad Annie and everything her death represented: the mask of respectability that overlaid the hatreds and the lies. He always hoped, I think, in a rather free interpretation of the karma principle, that if he refused to look beneath a surface then the surface was the reality. But he could never rid himself of the fear that he was wrong.\n\nAlthough M.'s investigations focus on her neighbors (who range from eccentric to downright evil), they reveal just as much about her. Crafty, manipulative, and seething with rage, she carefully constructs her revenge on an unidentified murderer--and, one suspects, on the frustrations and limitations that define her own life. \n\nThe Shape of Snakes is both a gripping thriller and a stunning novel. Don't be surprised if it works its way into your library of favorites. --Kelly Flynn

Condition;Good ,Hardcover no DJ ,Twenty years ago, M. Ranelagh found her Graham Road neighbor dying in a gutter. "Mad Annie" Butts, long persecuted for being black and for suffering from Tourette's syndrome, had had her skull shattered. So deeply did Annie's death--ruled an accident--affect M. that she has spent the last two decades secretly amassing proof that it was murder, and that the murderer lived in Graham Road. Her collection of evidence faithfully teases out the serpentine deceptions--and self-deceptions--woven into Annie's death; husband Sam, neighbors, friends, family, police, all are grist for the mill of M.'s occasionally unscrupulous research:\n\nI suppose everyone has a pet subject that triggers their anger--with me it was my mother's wicked talent for stirring, with Sam it was his fear of Mad Annie and everything her death represented: the mask of respectability that overlaid the hatreds and the lies. He always hoped, I think, in a rather free interpretation of the karma principle, that if he refused to look beneath a surface then the surface was the reality. But he could never rid himself of the fear that he was wrong.\n\nAlthough M.'s investigations focus on her neighbors (who range from eccentric to downright evil), they reveal just as much about her. Crafty, manipulative, and seething with rage, she carefully constructs her revenge on an unidentified murderer--and, one suspects, on the frustrations and limitations that define her own life. \n\nThe Shape of Snakes is both a gripping thriller and a stunning novel. Don't be surprised if it works its way into your library of favorites. --Kelly Flynn

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