When Evil Wakes: A New Anthology of the Macabre

London: Souvenir Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. [the book is only minimally shelfworn, but the previous owner has written his name plus date & place of purchase along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the rear jacket flap), and has placed tiny check-marks next to every title in the table of contents; the jacket shows a bit of wear at the corners and spine ends, with a couple of tiny scrape marks in the middle of the front panel]. "Something entirely new in horror anthologies -- a collection which does not include those much reprinted 'classic' stories which appear time and again in the more conventional books of this genre." Contents: "The Eye and the Finger" (Donald Wandrei); "The Feasting Dead" (John Metcalfe); "Death Waters" (Frank Belknap Long); "An Invitation to the Hunt" (George Hitchcock); "The Tsanta in the Parlour" (Stephen Grendon); "Moonlight--Starlight" (Virginia Layefsky); "The Kite" (Carl Jacobi); "Sweets to the Sweet" (Robert Bloch); "A Thin Gentleman with Gloves" (Simon West); "The Horror at Red Hook" (H.P. Lovecraft); "The Triumph of Death" (H. Russell Wakefield); "The Lips" (Henry S. Whitehead); "A Piece of Linoleum" (David H. Keller); "The Seed from the Sepulchre" (Clark Ashton Smith); "Canavan's Back Yard" (Joseph Payne Brennan); "The Shuttered Room" (H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth). Includes "Bibliographical [and biographical] Notes" on all the included authors. .