Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Metcalfe to A. Langley Searles on the front free endpaper: "To / A. Langley Searles / Sincerely / John Metcalfe." 1242 copies printed. A short novel of psychic vampirism. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times . Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. Touch of tanning to endpapers, mostly along gutter margins, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#132261)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.