HAMMETT (Dashiell)., Editor.
Modern Tales of Horror selected by Dashiell Hammett.
An important anthology of weird and supernatural fiction, edited and with an introduction by the American writer Dashiell Hammett, best-known for his hard-boiled detective novels including The Maltese Falcon (1930).
The collection was originally published in America earlier in the same year under the title Creeps by Night. The selection of twenty short stories includes works by William Faulkner (‘A Rose for Emily’), André Maurois (‘The House’), L. A. G. Strong (‘Breakdown’), Conrad Aiken (‘Mr. Arcularis’), H. P. Lovecraft (‘The Music of Erich Zann’), Stephen Vincent Benét (‘The King of the Cats’), Donald Wandrei (‘The Red Brain’) and Frank Belknap Long (‘A Visitor from Egypt’).
A very good copy indeed, just a hint of faint spotting to edges, contents otherwise generally clean, slight lean to text block, jacket slightly edge worn with minor chipping to extremities, spine panel toned with small loss to head and colour-matched tape repair to verso, tiny portion of loss to lower edge of rear panel. With the printed slip tipped-in to front free endpaper clarifying the John Collier copyright.
