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THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH

A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Price still on dust jacket.  Read once very carefully.

Grave Expectations Book 3.

SYNOPSIS:  “Medium turned private investigator Claire Hendricks is excited to embark on her first official case.

Pro-wrestling manager Ken King is convinced that his late father, Eddie, is ha....

A DANGEROUS TRAIN OF THOUGHT

A first UK edition hardback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.  Price still on dust jacket.  Read once very carefully.

A Val and Arbie Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “Yorkshire, 1926.  Gentleman ghost-hunter Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift and his old friend Val arrive at Cleeves Lea Manor, looking forward to the promise of a lavish weekend par....

LOVE AND HATE IN THE TIME OF COVID (Signed Numbered Limited)

This is a US first signed numbered over-sized  limited edition hardback (limited to 90 copies only).  Unread.

Book #64 of 90.  SIGNED by Brian Keene on the limitation page.

SYNOPSIS:  “An all-new collection of essays and articles spanning a dark time in world history – 2015 to 2022.

Keene turns his focus, wit, earnestness, and insight to global events such ....

LOVECRAFT’S DISCIPLES ISSUE #5

A  first edition chapbook.  Rainfall Chapbooks are A5 sized publications with photocopied pages, laminated covers and stapled together.  Unread.  Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since.

Issue #5 in a series of Lovecraft tribute chapbooks containing stories and poems edited by John B Ford and Steve Lines.

SIGNED by co-editor John B Ford.

SYNOPSIS:  &....

VENGEANCE CHILD **SIGNED**

A first UK edition hardback with a stated “This first world edition published in Great Britain in 2008 by SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD”. Predates the American version.  UNREAD.  Pictorial boards.  Price still on dust jacket.  Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since.

This book is SIGNED by Simon Clark on the title page.

SYNOPSIS:  “Can reveng....

VENGEANCE CHILD **SIGNED**

A first UK edition hardback with a stated “This first world edition published in Great Britain in 2008 by SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD”. Predates the American version.  UNREAD.  Pictorial boards.  Price still on dust jacket.  Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since.

This book is SIGNED by Simon Clark on the title page.

SYNOPSIS:  “Can reveng....

I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER **PC COPY**

This is a Publisher’s Copy (PC) of the signed numbered limited edition hardback produced by SST with a stated first edition November 2024 and a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.    UNREAD.  The title was previously published by Titan in 2024.  Although the book states a publication date of 2024 it was not actually released until April 2025.

A PC copy is a bo....

HELL’S GATE

This is a first US edition mass market paperback with a stated “Never before published” on the rear cover.

The covers, which are a little grubby,  are showing some signs of wear to the extremities with some rubbing to the edges.  Light crease across the bottom left hand corner of the rear cover.  The edges of the book are sprayed purple – the top and bottom edges hav....

THE OCCULTIST (Limited Edition Novella)

This is a first limited edition novella (115 pages).  Limited to 285 copies only.  Published without a dust jacket.  The book was printed in Italy on a fine 140 gm Italian rough ivory paper with 140 gm flamingo-coloured Sirio endpapers. The cover is a high quality Italian canvas with stamping on the front and spine in red.

Book #275 of 285.  UNREAD.

SYNOPSIS:  “MAX THÉ....

LEGACY OF DEATH

A first edition hardback with a stated  This First World Edition published 2020 in Great Britain.  The dust jacket is unpriced which is the norm now for Severn House books.  UNREAD.

A Matthew Rowsley Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “With his lordship’s mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land agent M....

IN AT THE DEATH

A first UK edition hardback with a stated first published in Great Britain and the USA in 2025.  Read once very carefully.   Unpriced dustjacket which is the norm now for Severn House books.

A Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “October 1861, England.  Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft House in Shropshir....

A SNAKE IN THE BARLEY

A first UK edition hardback with a stated First World Edition published in Great Britain and the USA in 2024.  Pictorial boards.  Unpriced dust jacket (which is the norm now for Severn House books).

Read once very carefully.

Book 15 in the Owen Archer Mystery series.

SYNOPSIS:  “York, 1377.  Owen Archer is determined to find his friend, taverner Tom Merchet, who h....

A BOOK OF RYHMES (Limited Edition)

This is a first UK limited edition hardback (500 copies only).  Published in association with The Bronte Society.  Beautiful boards.  Unread.

Introduction by Patti Smith and essays by Barbara Heritage and Henry Wessells.

SYNOPSIS:  “Charlotte Brontë wrote her miniature book of poems, A Book of Ryhmes, in 1829, when she was aged only thirteen. Dated 17th December 1829, the ....

BERSERK (Signed Numbered Limited)

A First signed numbered limited edition hardback (462 copies only).  Unread.  Stated First edition.  Price still on dust jacket.  Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since.

Book #277 of 462.  SIGNED by Tim Lebbon on the limitation page.  Introduction by Edward Lee.

SYNOPSIS:  “Tom’s son died ten years ago… so they say. Killed in a military ....

GUILTY AS SIN

A first UK edition hardback with a stated This first world edition published 2015 in Great Britain.  Pictorial boards. Unpriced dustjacket which is the norm now for Severn House.  Some light tanning to pages.  UNREAD.

A Lina Townend mystery.

SYNOPSIS: “Driving across Dartmoor, Lina Townend finds two men robbing a medieval church. Outraged, she manages to stop them –....

PULP FIN DE SIECLE (Limited Edition)

This is a first limited edition hardback (75 copies only).  Purple Bearded Uncle is an imprint of Occult Press.  UNREAD.

Book #36 of 75.  Beautiful boards.

SYNOPSIS:  “Over the course of 24 hours, on a Spring day in Paris in 1893, seven archetypal figures of the  “Yellow Nineties” – a priest, a Symbolist, a dandy, an actress, a whore, a diabolist, and ....