Horror from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 12012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 40th anniversary edition of this novel of murder and mayhem in Houston. This edition includes a short story featuring one of the characters in Act of Love as well as an interview with the author. This is one of 200 numbered copies, signed by Lansdale on a tipped in… Read more about this item

London: Kinnell, 1990. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A vampire novel, first published in 1981 in paperback. This UK edition is the first hardcover (another hardcover edition was published by Dark Harvest the next year). First hardcover edition (stated). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The red lettering on the spine has faded just… Read more about this item

Novato, CA and Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. Collecting The Year's Best Horror Stories, volumes XIII, XIV, and XV. Authors include Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Lumley, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, and other writers. This is one of 350 numbered copies signed by about 30 authors. 704 pages. First edition. Bound… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of ten previously published short stories of dark fantasy and horror. Each story is illustrated with newly commissioned artwork. The contributors include Stephen King ("One for the Road"), Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, David Morell, Peter Straub, Robert Bloch, William F. Nolan,… Read more about this item

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seventeen short stories that revisit George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Contributors include Romero, who contributes the foreword, Richard Laymon, Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Robert R. McCammon. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors, including King, Laymon, and McCammon, but not Romero. … Read more about this item

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2014. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A vampire novel, first published in 1981. One of 1000 signed and numbered copies. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is copy no. 8 of 1000, signed by McCammon on the limitation page.

London: Penguin, 1994. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Very good. An advance copy in plain printed covers of this horror novel published as a paperback original in the UK. 373 pages. Uncorrected proof. A very good copy in somewhat soiled white wrappers but with a nice inscription: "Tom-this is the first thing I've signed that I've never seen… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Borderlands Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An anthology from the Horror Writers of America, Inc., limited to 750 numbered copies signed by 19 contributors including McCammon, Richard Laymon, Ed Gorman, Charles de Lint, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a near fine slipcase that… Read more about this item

Hill House and Cemetery Dance, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 52 lettered copies collecting short stories and novellas from some of the best-known writers in the genre, including William Peter Blatty, Stephen King ("The Road Virus Heads North"), Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, F. Paul Wilson, Eric Van Lustbader, Tim Powers, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell,… Read more about this item

Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1991. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A vampire novel, first published in 1981 in paperback. This is one of 500 copies of the first hardcover edition signed by McCammon and the two illustrators, Charles Lang and Wendy Lang, on the limitation page. 412 pages, including a two-page essay by McCammon about… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. One of King's best books, and the rare example of a longer, uncut version that may actually be better than the original (most books would be improved if they were shorter-following Elmore Leonard's dictum, "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip"). This signed,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. One of King's best novels, an apocalyptic book about the near-extinction of the human race. 823 pages. First edition (first printing, a stated "First Edition" and yes, there is the code T39 on page 823, which is not a point of issue, all copies… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The fourth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a limitation sheet mounted on the inside front cover. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 29 of… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. King's sixth book and the basis for the David Cronenberg movie starring Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen. 426 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published..." on the copyright page with the $11.95 price on the jacket). A very good to near fine copy in… Read more about this item

Birmingham, England: SST (Short Scary Tales) Publications, 2020. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel set in Stephen King's fictional Maine town of Castle Rock. This is one of 600 copies of the British limited edition with an afterword by Bev Vincent and a map of the town by Glenn Chadbourne. Signed by Chadbourne, Vincent, and… Read more about this item

Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A post-apocalyptic horror novel in which humans evolve quickly following a nuclear war. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a classic of 1980s horror. This is the signed, numbered first hardcover edition (following a mass market paperback original version), with illustrations by Charles Lang. Published… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The fifth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a limitation sheet mounted on the inside front cover. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 96 of… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The sixth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a tipped-in limitation sheet. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 99 of 100 signed by the contributors.… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. 411 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).

Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first volume in an anthology series of original horror/supernatural stories. Contributors include Robert McCammon, Gene Wolfe, Robert Bloch, Joe R. Lansdale, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, etc. 307 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket (light spotting to… Read more about this item