Dark Mind, Dark Heart [*SIGNED*]

Sauk City WI: Arkham House. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear to book, age-toning to top edge and fore-edge, small ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents, previous owner's initials + date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is quite nice, with just a few tiny nicks along the top edge, some sun-browning at the edges of both flaps]. INSCRIBED generically ("Sincerely") and SIGNED by the editor on the front endpaper. Anthology of "new, hitherto unpublished work" by numerous masters of the genre. Contents: "Under the Horns" (Robert Bloch); "Come Back, Uncle Ben!" (Joseph Payne Brennan); "The Church in High Street" (J. Ramsey Campbell); "Hargrave's Fore-edge Book" (Mary Elizabeth Counselman); "Miss Esperson" (Stephen Grendon); "The Habitants of Middle Islet" (William Hope Hodgson); "The Grey God Passes" (Robert E. Howard); "The Aquarium" (Carl Jacobi); "The Man Who Wanted to Be in the Movie" (John Jakes); "In Memoriam" (David H. Keller); "Witches' Hollow" (H.P. Lovecraft); "The Ideal Type" (Frank Mace); "The Firing-Chamber" (John Metcalfe); "The Green Vase" (Dennis Roidt); "Xélucha" (M.P. Shiel); "The Animals in the Case" (H. Russell Wakefield); "Caer Sidhi" (George Wetzel). Signed by Editor .