The Nightmare Reader, edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Isaac Asimov, Victor Gollancz, 1973. Review copy.

The Nightmare Reader, edited by Peter Haining with an introduction by Isaac Asimov, is a substantial anthology of horror and supernatural fiction first published in 1973. The collection brings together a wide range of classic and modern writers, including major figures of the genre such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft and M. R. James, offering a varied selection of tales that span Gothic horror, psychological unease and the macabre. An engaging and wide-ranging volume, it provides a representative survey of the development of horror fiction.

The Nightmare Reader, edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

The full list of authors featured comprises; Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Washington Irving, Thomas De Quincey, Lord Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, C. F. Hoffmann, Lafcadio Hearn, Madame Blavatsky, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleister Crowley, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, Montague Summers, H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, John Gawsworth, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke.

Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1973. First edition. Review copy with review slip from the Publisher.

A good red cloth hardback with gilt titles to spine. Covers with light wear. Soundly bound. Dustjacket is intact and not price-clipped, with light wear and toning to extremities. Spine of jacket is a little toned.

Text is generally clean and bright. Some spotting to endpapers and first and last few pages, and to edges of text block. Some toning to top of vertical edge of text block.

Text in English.

xv + (2) + 340pp.

Dimensions: approx 222mm high x 148mm wide x 35mm deep.
Weight: approx 582g (unpacked).