Demons Within & other disturbing tales

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound clean copy, no significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper, tiny ink check-marks next to several title in table of contents; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a touch of soiling here and there]. ` "Fourteen choice stories of the macabre [that] are mainly -- but not entirely -- concerned with characters whose own troubled minds and personal neuroses for the basis of their terror and torment." Contents: "George and Alice and Isabel" (William Trevor); "Gone is Gone" (Joan Fleming); "The Margenes" (Miriam Allen deFord); "Mummy to the Rescue" (Angus Wilson); "Miss Cornelius" (William Fryer Harvey); "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" (Ambrose Bierce); "The Phantom of the Screen" (Lawrie Wyman); "The Book" (Margaret Irwin); "The Man Who Collected Poe" (Robert Bloch); "The Squaw" (Bram Stoker); "The Small World of Lewis Stillman" (William F. Nolan); "The Attic Express" (Alex Hamilton); "Mr. George" (August Derleth); "I Used to Live Here Once" (Jean Rhys). Each story is prefaced by a brief blurb about the author, and the editor has also contributed a short introduction. .