American Fantastic Tales: Terror and The Uncanny from the 1940s to Now.

STRAUB, Peter; John Collier; Fritz Leiber; Tennessee Williams; Jane Rice; Anthony Boucher; Jack Snow; John Cheever; Shirley Jackson; Paul Bowles; Jack Finney; Vladimir Nabokov; Ray Bradbury; Charles Beaumont; Jerome Bixby; Davis Grubb; Donald Wandrei; Harlan Ellison; Richard Matheson; T. E. D. Klein; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Fred Chappell; John Crowley; Johnathan Carroll; Joyce Carol Oates; Thomas Ligotti; Peter Straub; Jeff VanderMeer; George Saunders; Caitlin Kiernan; Thomas Tessier; Michael Chabon; Joe Hill; Poppy Z. Brite; Steven Millhauser; M. Rickert; Brian Evenson; Kelly Link; Tim Powers; Gene Wolfe; Benjamin Percy.

Item Number: 147233

New York: The Library of America, 2009.

First edition of the second volume of Peter Straub’s incredible horror fantasy anthology. Octavo, original cloth, original silk ribbon laid in. Signed by Peter Straub on the title page and at his short story on p. 389. Additionally signed by Michael Chabon (p.463), John Crowley (p. 305), Harlan Ellison (p. 197), Brian Evenson (p. 563), Joe Hill (p.483 with an illustration of a figure holding a balloon), Caitlin Kiernan (p. 447), Kelly Link (p. 579), Joyce Carol Oates (p. 335), Benjamin Percy (p. 673), Tim Powers (p. 623), Jeff Vandermeer (p. 401), and Gene Wolf (p. 655) at their respective contributions. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Accompanied by the publisher’s original catalogue request card.

The fantastic has been a hallmark of literature since the early days of folklore and religious tradition, seeing the introduction of demons and vampires, ghosts and madness, and science-fiction threats as the times changed. The second volume of Peter Straub's 'American Fantastic Tales' anthology, '1940s to Now' picks up where the first left off, collecting forty-two terrifying and uncanny stories in "an encompassing and essential voyage to the dark side of the moon of American literature" (Jonathan Lethem).