Beware After Dark!: The World's Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror

New York: The Macaulay Company. Good in Good dj. (c.1929). Reprint. Hardcover. [front hinge cracked, otherwise quite a decent copy, with some minor bumping to the corners, moderate age-toning and dust-soiling to the edges of the text block, and a one-time owner's name, town and date of purchase (1935) in ink on the front endpaper; the jacket is somewhat soiled and has a handful of small chips along the top edge (including at the top of the spine, with some loss of the title) and at the lower extremities]. (Gold Label Books) Series Like the subtitle says. Contents: "Negotium Peramulans" (E.F. Benson); "Back There in the Grass" (Gouverneur Morris); "The Mollmeit of the Mountain" (Cynthia Stockley); "Fishhead" (Irvin S. Cobb); "The Fountain of Gold" (Lafcadio Hearn); "The Shadowy Third" (Ellen Glasgow); "Lukundoo" (Edward Lucas White); "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel Hawthorne); "Lazarus" (Leonid Andreyeff); "The Lame Priest" (S. Carleton); "The Call of Cthulhu" (H.P. Lovecraft); "Novel of the White Powder" (Arthur Machen, misspelled "Macken" in the table of contents); "The Devils of Po Sung" (Bassett Morgan); "The Isle of Voices" (Robert Louis Stevenson); "The Sunken Land" (George W. Bayly); "Two Spinsters" (E. Phillips Oppenheim); "The Monster-God of Mamurth" (Edmond Hamilton); "Huguenin's Wife" (M.P. Shiel); "The Coconut Pearl" (Beatrice Grimshaw); "The Quest of the Tropic Bird" (John Fleming Wilson); "The Striding Place" (Gertrude Atherton). NOTE that although the imprint on the book itself (title page and spine) is The Macaulay Company, the dust jacket is that of the "Gold Label Books" issue; the book does not state a printing, only the 1929 copyright date -- but given the reference to "President Hoover" in the jacket blurb -- it's reasonable to date this printing no later than 1932. And in any event, jacketed copies (especially of early printings) are uncommon. .