Personally signed by 39 authors, including Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, and Thomas Monteleone.
Deluxe Signed Collector's Edition No. 48 of 345 numbered copies
Dennis Etchison. 1991 "The Complete Masters of Darkness". The Complete Masters of Darkness collects for the first time in permanent hardcover 45 stories selected by their authors; this volume's title says it all. Dennis Etchison has painstakingly restored, and some of the authors have revised, the stories in this completely reset collection, and each author has written notes for his or her story, explaining its selection.
Contains 45 stories selected by the authors, and is signed by 39 of them (Brennan passed away before signing) on the limitation page.
Half red silk-cloth and half black leather covered boards with gilt titled spine, hand marbled endpapers, red silk ribbon, jacket art by Ilene Meyer, all contained in red linen, velvet lined traycase with jacket spine reproduced and pasted on traycase spine.
A Superb collectible.
EDITED BY DENNIS ETCHISON. "First Edition" as stated.
PERSONALLY SIGNED BY THE FOLLOWING AUTHORS ACROSS 4 PAGES:
- FRITZ LEIBER
- JACK VANCE
- RAY BRADBURY
- JOYCE CAROL OATES
- ROBERT BLOCH
- JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNEN *
- RICHARD MATHESON
- STEPHEN KING
- RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON
- DENNIS ETCHISON
- DAMON KNGHT
- JOE HALDEMAN
- KARL EDWARD WAGNER
- JACK DANN
- CHARLES L. GRANT
- HUGH B. CAVE
- EDWARD BRYANT
- THOMAS F. MONTELEONE
- STEVE RASNIC TEM
- CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO
- KATE WILHELM
- GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON
- AVRAM DAVIDSON
- GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
- GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
- WHITLEY STRIEBER
- ALGIS BUDRYS
- BARRY N. MARZBERG
- L. STRAGUE DE CAMP
- WILLIAM F. NOLAN
- GADNER DOZOIS
- JACK WILLIAMSON
- NIGEL KNEAL
- LISA TUTTLE
- JAMES HERBERT
- RAMSEY CAMPBELL
- R. CHETWYND-HAYES
- CLIVE BARKER
- BRIAN LUMLEY
* No Signature
Tray-case : Very Fine- with a couple of marks on the top surface as shown. Sharp corners that are not bumped. Photos of actual item.
- Publisher:
- Dennis Etchison
- Edition:
- Signed Limited Deluxe Edition of 345
- Binding:
- Hardcover with dust-jacket / Leather Bound
- Edited:
- DENNIS ETCHISON
- Title:
- The Complete Masters of Darkness
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