Street of the Malcontents and Other Stories by Cyril Hume

Single volume-six issues bound without covers and advertisements. I hope you find something of interest.Hardcover-cloth.

That's what I do when I quote from any of my reference works.) I will be gradually listing my inventory on ABE over the coming years. (If another dealer wishes to make use of any of these notes, I'd appreciate the courtesy of putting such excerpts in quotes and giving proper attribution to me. I tend to carefully research my inventory and write extensive notes. Some of my essays have appeared in genre publications such as NYRSF, Wormwood and F&SF. I began collecting and studying antiquarian fantasy around 1980. I have exhibited at convention fairs (such as WFC and Readercon) in the past. Since 2014 I've been back working on my own. Currey as cataloguer and general assistant.

(Or at least they're obscure now, whatever their status was when first published.) You're more likely to find rare and obscure works here than high spots. I don't have much in the way of American pulp (either in magazine or specialty press book form) but otherwise my interests range widely from high-brow to middle-brow to low-brow to amateur/eccentric. But that should give you the general idea. Since the most familiar and relevant genre terms in use today - 'science fiction,' 'fantasy,' 'supernatural,' 'horror' - were not so much in use when these books were first published, pegging them that way can be anachronistic. Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. 'Ghost stories' would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it 'Eldritch Books' because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so - eldritch). Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1139. A curiously under-rated collection, unaccountably dropped from the second edition of Bleiler's Checklist. 'Atlantis' Exile' merits attention as of the very few successful ventures into a setting that, like the Sargasso Sea, has sucked in many writers only to strand them there. Of the fourteen stories here four or five count as supernatural horror and fantasy, using motifs of witchcraft, possession, vampirism and Atlantis. The first collection of short fiction by a successful fiction writer who soon headed out to Hollywood, where he became a successful screenwriter (Forbidden Planet is one of his credits). A fine copy in good decorative dust jacket with half-inch chip at tail of spine subtracting the imprint, minor v-chip at head of spine, scuffing and dustiness to front panel. Original purple decorative cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, title page printed in black and orange. Street of the Malcontents and Other Stories.

Street of the Malcontents and Other Stories by Cyril Hume