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Adrian, Jack (ed.). THE ASH-TREE ANNUAL MACABRE 2000. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited with an introduction by Jack Adrian. Nine rare supernatural stories rescued from various magazines between 1892 and 1919 by Adrian. Some authors included are E. Nesbit, B. M. Croker, S. Baring Gould, Rose Macaulay, Sax Rohmer and Julian Hawthorne. Fine in dust jacket. $30.00

Adrian, Jack (editor). THE ASH-TREE ANNUAL MACABRE 2001. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree press, 2001. First edition. 500 copies. Collects thirteen rare ghost stories never previously published in book form. Author's include Marjorie Bowen and Jessie Douglas Kerruish. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Adrian, Jack (editor). THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2002: GHOSTS AT 'THE CORNHILL' 1920-1930. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. Edited with an introduction by Jack Adrian. Collects fourteen supernatural stories that were originally published in the 20s in a magazine called The Cornhill. Excellent and obscure stories. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Adrian, Jack (editor). THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2003: GHOSTS AT 'THE CORNHILL' 1931-1939. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First edition. Edited with an introduction by Jack Adrian. Collects fifteen supernatural stories that were originally published in the 30s in a magazine called The Cornhill. Excellent and obscure stories. Fine in a dust jacket. $35.00

Baldwin, Mrs Alfred (Louisa). THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Limited edition. 500 copies printed. Originally published by J. M. Dent in 1895. A legendary ghost story collection both rare and well regarded. This edition includes the first book publication of the extra story "The Ticking of the Clock". Also included are seven of J. Ayton Symington's illustrations from the original edition. With an introduction by John Pelan and Richard Dalby and a nice jacket illustration by Allan Koszowski. An important book. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Begbie, Harold. THE AMAZING DREAMS OF ANDREW LATTER. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. A series of six tales originally published in London Magazine in 1904, here collected for the first time. They concern occult detective Andrew Latter's ability to access a dreamworld parallel to reality. Edited with an introduction by Jack Adrian. Fine in dust jacket. $25.00

Benson, E. F. THE TERROR BY NIGHT. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Limited edition. 600 copies. Edited and with an introduction by Jack Adrian. Wraparound jacket illustration by Douglas Walters and frontispiece photograph of the author. This is the first of a projected five volume set collecting the complete weird tales of Benson. in chronological order. The stories here cover the period between 1899 and 1911. Fine in a fine dust jacket. $35.00

Benson, E. F. THE PASSENGER. Ashcroft, British Columbia, Ash-Tree Press, 1999. First edition. 600 copies. The second volume edited by Jack Adrian collecting the supernatural stories of E. F. Benson. This volume covers the period 1912- 1921 and includes many of the recently discovered tales. It includes those stories found in The Flint Knife (1988). Another fine jacket illustration by Douglas Walters. Bumped corner else fine in dust jacket. $32.00

Benson, E. F. MRS AMWORTH. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. The third volume of a series that will eventually collect the complete ghost stories of Benson. Jacket illustrated by Douglas Walters. Fine in a dust jacket. $35.00

Bestwick, Simon. A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2004. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by Joel Lane. Jacket art by Paul Lowe. Collects fourteen ghost stories. Bestwick has appeared in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Biss, Gerald. THE DOOR OF THE UNREAL. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Classic Macabre: An Imprint of Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Later edition. Introduction by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz. Stiff folding pictorial wrappers illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. The first paperback of this new imprint reprints the classic werewolf novel from 1919. Fine wrappers. $15.00

Bowen, Marjorie. TWILIGHT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL ROMANCES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited and with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Also includes a preface by one of the author's sons, an afterword by the author detailing a ghostly encounter and a frontispiece with a photograph of the author. Collects seventeen rare and excellent ghost stories. None of these stories are from the Arkham House collection Kecksies. An important book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. $75.00

Broster, D[orothy] K[athleen]. COUCHING AT THE DOOR. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Limited edition. 600 copies. This long awaited collection by Broster also includes the weird tales from her earlier collection A Fire of Driftwood (1932) as well as a new story discovered by Jack Adrian among Broster's papers. An important collection. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Brown, Alice. THE EMPIRE OF DEATH. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First edition. 500 copies. Edited with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Collects eleven supernatural stories by this New England writer published in the early 20th century as well as several mystical and pagan poems. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Burke, John. WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. First edition. Introduction by Nicholas Royle. Collects 22 supernatural tales. Burke is probably best known for editing the Pan Tales of Unease series. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Burke, Thomas. THE GOLDEN GONG AND OTHER NIGHT-PIECES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. The best of Thomas Burke's weird and supernatural tales culled from several of his fine collections published in the early 20th century. Edited with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Fine in dust jacket that is illustrated by Paul Lowe. $40.00

Burrage, A[lfred] M[cLelland]. INTRUDERS: NEW WEIRD TALES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. First edition. 500 numbered copies. Edited with an introduction by Jack Adrian. Jacket art by Douglas Walters. Collects 26 stories, only three of which have previously appeared in book form. Fine in a fine dust jacket. $200.00

Caldecott, Andrew. NOT EXACTLY GHOSTS: COLLECTED WEIRD TALES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Limited edition. 500 copies. Collects the twenty-five tales from Not Exactly Ghosts (1947) and Fire Burns Blue (1948). Excellent stories with interesting settings including the imagined country of Kongea. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Cardin, Matt. DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP. Ashcroft, British Columbia: New Century Macabre: An Imprint of Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. Stiff folding pictorial wrappers illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. The author's fist book. Fine. $12.00

Cave, Hugh B. THE LADY WORE BLACK AND OTHER WEIRD CAT TAILS. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Nineteen supernatural stories involving cats. This book was published to celebrate Cave's ninetieth birthday. Fine in a dust jacket illustrated by Paul Lowe. $30.00

Chambers, Robert W. OUT OF THE DARK: VOLUME 1: ORIGINS. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited and with an introduction by Hugh Lamb. Collects nine of the best supernatural tales published by Chambers prior to 1900. Fine in a fine dust jacket. $35.00

Cowles, Frederick. THE NIGHT WIND HOWLS: COMPLETE SUPERNATURAL STORIES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Limited edition. 600 copies. This edition collects sixty-one antiquarian ghost stories. Includes those published in The Horror of Abbot's Grange (1936) and The Night Wind Howls (1938). Also collects the additional tales published in the omnibus edition by Ghost Story Press in 1993 Fear Walks the Night. Includes the added bonus of plates with the jacket illustrations of Cowles rare collections from the 30s, a frontis photograph of the author and an article on true ghosts by Cowles and a foreword by the author's son and an introduction by Hugh Lamb. Fine in dust jacket. $250.00

De Crespigny, Rose Champion. NORTON VYSE: PSYCHIC. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. First edition. 500 copies. Collects for the first time in book form a series of stories written in 1919 for Premier Magazine about Norton Vyse, a psychic investigator. Another volume from the Ash-Tree Press Occult Detective Library edited and with an introduction by Jack Adrian. Fine in a dust jacket. $32.00

Duffy, Steve and Ian Rodwell. THE FIVE QUARTERS. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The Five Quarters is a society with five members. This framework provides the background for this collection of supernatural stories. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Fortune, Dion (pseudonym of Violet Mary Firth). THE SECRETS OF DR TAVERNER. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Limited edition. Limited to 500 copies. Another volume of the Ash-Tree Press Occult Detectives Library edited and introduced by Jack Adrian. First published in 1926, this edition adds a twelfth story featuring the occult sleuth Dr. Taverner. Fine in dust jacket. $32.00

Frazer, Shamus. WHERE HUMAN PATHWAYS END. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First edition. 500 copies. Introduction by Richard Dalby. When four of Shamus Frazer's supernatural tales appeared in two anthologies in 1965, editor Charles Birkin hailed him as a 'welcome newcomer'. Yet this 'newcomer' had, in the mid-1930s, been acclaimed as a master of satirical irony, and a natural successor to Evelyn Waugh. Although Frazer turned to the supernatural tale late in his career, his flair for the genre was clearly recognized by the praise his stories received. Five of his weird tales were published before his death in 1966, but the author had completed a further five; and he had intended to publish all ten stories together in a single volume, Where Human Pathways End. This collection is now available for the first time. Nice jacket art by Paul Lowe. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Hodgson, William Hope. THE GHOST PIRATES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Classic Macabre: An Imprint of Ash-Tree Press, 2003. Later edition. Introduction by A. F. Kidd and a bibliographical note by Douglas A. Anderson. Stiff folding pictorial wrappers illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. Originally published by Stanley Paul in 1909. "...one of the great sea novels".- Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 816. Fine wrappers. $15.00

Hyder, Alan. VAMPIRES OVERHEAD. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Vampire Classics: An Imprint of Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Later edition. Stiff folding pictorial wrappers illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. Introduction by Jack Adrian. British pulp novel from 1935 concerning vampires invading from space. Fine wrappers. $15.00

Jackson, Sir Thomas Graham. SIX GHOST STORIES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. First Canadian edition. 500 copies. Introduction by Richard Dalby. First published in 1919 by John Murray. Includes the excellent "The Lady of Rosemount" and other fine antiquarian ghost stories. Fine in a dust jacket. $40.00

Kidd, A. F. and Rick Kennett. NO. 472 CHEYNE WALK; CARNACKI: THE UNTOLD STORIES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. 500 copies. More tales of William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghostfinder. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Kidd, A. F. (pseudonym of Chico Kidd). SUMMONING KNELLS AND OTHER INVENTIONS. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects the antiquarian ghost stories of Kidd that mostly first appeared in her self-published chapbooks in the eighties and nineties. The majority of these effective tales use a background of abbeys with belfries and their haunted bellringers. Includes a bellringers glossary. Fine in a dust jacket. $40.00

Kirk, Russell. OFF THE SAND ROAD: GHOST STORIES VOLUME ONE. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited with an introduction by John Pelan. Many feel Kirk to be the finest American writer of the traditional ghost story. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Kirk, Russell. WHAT SHADOWS WE PURSUE: GHOST STORIES VOLUME TWO. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited with an introduction by John Pelan. Many feel Kirk to be the finest American writer of the traditional ghost story. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Lawrence, Margery. THE CASEBOOK OF MILES PENNOYER: VOLUME ONE. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First edition. 600 copies. With an introduction by Richard Dalby. Collects six of the seven occult detective stories originally published as Number Seven Queer Street (1945). Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. SCHALKEN THE PAINTER AND OTHERS: GHOST STORIES 1838-61. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. 650 copies. Edited with an introduction by Jim Rockhill. Jacket illustration by Douglas Walters. Collects twelve stories including both versions of "Schalken the Painter". Rockhill's introduction is excellent and the color jacket art by Walters, chilling. This is the first volume by Ash-Tree Press collecting the ghost stories of Le Fanu. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. THE HAUNTED BARONET AND OTHERS: GHOST STORIES 1861-70 Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First edition. 650 copies. Edited with an introduction by Jim Rockhill. Jacket illustration by Douglas Walters. Collects seven stories. This is the second of five projected volumes by Ash-Tree Press collecting the ghost stories of Le Fanu. Fine in dust jacket. $45.00

Metcalfe, John. NIGHTMARE JACK AND OTHER STORIES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited and with an introduction by Richard Dalby. The definitive Metcalfe, collecting the best supernatural stories from The Smoking Leg (1925), and Judas (1931). Also includes "Brenner's Boy" and the Arkham House novel The Feasting Dead (1954). Wraparound jacket illustration by Douglas Walters. This copy has a stack slant to binding, else fine in dust jacket. $125.00

Oliver, Frances. DANCING ON AIR. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2004. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by the author. Collects ten ghost stories published over four decades. Includes a tale published in Harper's Magazine in 1964 under the pseudonym Monica Sterba. A few of Oliver's tales have appeared in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society and one appeared in the Ash-Tree Press anthology Shadows and Silence (2000). Fine in dust jacket illustrated by Paul Lowe. $35.00

Oliver, Frances. CHILDREN OF EPIPHANY. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Classic Macabre: An Imprint of Ash-Tree Press, 2004. Later edition, trade paperback. Introduction by the author. Originally published in 1983 by Secker & Warburg in the now elusive hardcover. Supernatural novel that takes place on the Greek islands. Cover art by Jason Van Hollander. Fine wrappers. $15.00

Pater, Roger. MYSTIC VOICES: BEING EXPERIENCES OF THE REVD PHILIP RIVERS PATER, SQUIRE AND PRIEST 1834-1913. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Limited edition. 500 copies. First published by Burns, Oates in 1923. A somewhat legendary supernatural collection, partly for its extreme rarity and partly for the three excellent stories selected by Montague Summers for his classic anthology The Supernatural Omnibus (1931). All the stories are narrated by a Benedictine priest who has the power to communicate with the dead. The stories have a religious background much like those of R. H. Benson. Fine in dust jacket that is illustrated by Paul Lowe. $40.00

Prichard, Kate and Hesketh [E. and H. Heron]. THE EXPERIENCES OF FLAXMAN LOW. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First Canadian edition. Limited to 500 copies. Occult Detective Library edited by Jack Adrian. Originally published in 1899 as Ghosts: Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low. A classic occult detective collection. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Quinn, Seabury. NIGHT CREATURES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First edition. 600 copies. Introduction by Peter Ruber and Joseph Wrzos. Collects eleven stories published in Weird Tales between 1923 and 1947. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Roden, Barbara and Christopher (eds.). SHADOWS AND SILENCE. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Original anthology collecting 25 supernatural stories by contemporary writers in the tradition of M. R. James and other past masters. Authors include Ramsey Campbell, Ron Weighell, John Pelan, Barbara Roden, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, John Whitbourn, Steve Rasnic Tem and others. Nice color jacket art by Jason van Hollander. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Roden, Barbara and Christopher (editors). MIDNIGHT NEVER COMES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997 First edition. 500 copies. Collects seventeen contemporary ghost stories by some of the best writers in the genre. Stories by Rhys Hughes, Simon Clark, Steve Duffy, Terry Lamsley, Rosemary Pardoe, John Whitbourn, Ron Weighell and others. Fine in a fine dust jacket. $40.00

Roden, Barbara (editor). LADY STANHOPE'S MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL TALES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Second edition. Ghost stories by Tina Rath, Christopher Roden, Dale J. Nelson, G. W. Howarth and Katherine Haynes. Edited with an introduction Barbara Roden. The second printing of the original Ash-Tree Press publication. Fine in pictorial wrappers. $10.00

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. THE DEEP MUSEUM; GHOST STORIES OF A MELANCHOLIC. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Color dust jacket art by Douglas Walters. In a section titled 'Legends of Old America', Salmonson presents tales of ghosts, demons, and witchcraft of the Northwest, the Great Lakes region, and the Deep South. Most of these stories have their origins in folklore and traditional tales, and draw on the rich legends which abound in every region of the United States, but which are too often turned into fodder for campfire tales or urban legends. Lyric verse makes up the section entitled 'Bone Wings', while the eighteen pieces which make up 'The Forsaken Reliquary: A Catalog of Imaginary Lithographi Tints' tell a continuous story from the point of view of someone dead. Fine in dust jacket. $32.00

Tem, Steve Rasnic. THE FAR SIDE OF THE LAKE. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Twenty-five ghost stories. Exquisite tales by a modern master. Fine in a dust jacket. $35.00

Vorse, Mary Heaton. SINISTER ROMANCE: COLLECTED GHOST STORIES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Collects seven stories, some with a background of New England village life. Well written and atmospheric. Fine in dust jacket. $32.00

Watson, H[enry] B[rereton] Marriott. THE DEVIL OF THE MARSH AND OTHER STORIES. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2004. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by James Doig. Collects fifteen supernatural and weird tales published in the late 19th and early 20th century and scattered throughout several now rare collections. The stories range from a Dracula inspired vampire tale to decadent sorcery, Haggard inspired fantastic adventure and science fiction horror. Fine in dust jacket. $45.00

Williamson, Chet. FIGURES IN RAIN. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition. The author's first collection with 27 tales of the uneasy and horrific. Introduction by Joe Lansdale. Fine in dust jacket. $32.00

Wintle, W[illiam] J[ames]. GHOST GLEAMS: TALES OF THE UNCANNY. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. First Canadian edition. 500 copies. First published in 1921 by Heath Cranton. Introduction by Richard Dalby. Collects fifteen tales. Bleiler, Guide, 1725. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00