There Is A Graveyard That Dwells in Man; and "A College Mystery" ( Two volumes )
London: Strange Attractor Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 442pp. Off-white sail cloth illustrated and lettered in black. Endpaper artwork by David Tibet. B&W illustrations. As issued, with separate 96pp softcover book: "A College Mystery" by A. P. Barker (see further: below). Although not stated in the publication, this hardcover edition of "There is a Graveyard" was limited to 500 copies SIGNED by David Tibet by way of a loosely inserted bookplate. This is one of a small number of special copies that were individually signed by David in the book itself as well as on the bookplate (only a few dozen were released thus - i.e. signed both on the bookplate and in the book). in England, and Weiser Antiquarian have only a tiny number of copies available for sale. Included with this hardcover is a softcover facsimile of A. P. Baker’s supernatural novella "A College Mystery" (1918) with cover designs by David Tibet. "There Is A Graveyard" is a collection of 23 "chilling stories by renowned innovators of the weird and by many little-known and underrepresented or forgotten scribes of the macabre." The authors of these "strange and hallucinatory tales" are: H. R. Wakefield, H. D. Everett, L. A. Lewis, A. C. Benson, Thomas Ligotti, Lady Dilke, Arthur Machen, Colette De Curzon, Nugent Barker, Edna W. Underwood, E. F. Benson, Oliver Onions, A. M. Burrage, John Gower, Algernon Blackwood, Amyas Northcote, L. P. Hartley, Edith Wharton, R. H. Benson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Middleton and Walter De La Mare. The selection was made by artist, writer, and musician David Tibet, who has provided an introductory essay, a short closing note, and, in collaboration with Ania Goszczynska, the artwork. Author notes by Mark Valentine. Although complete in itself, "There Is A Graveyard" follows on from David Tibet's earlier collection of supernatural rarities "The Moons At Your Door" (2016). The hardcover edition of "There is a Graveyard" sold out on publication, both volumes in Fine condition. Item #69219
ISBN: 9781907222610
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