West India Lights Whitehead, Henry S. Horror,Supernatural

Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-367 [368: colophon] [369-370: blank], publisher's black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 3037 copies printed. The author's posthumously published second collection of weird fiction, preceded by JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES (1944). Collects seventeen stories originally published in the pulps, mostly in WEIRD TALES. "Whitehead was a cut above the general run of pulp writers, and his stories feature some remarkable motifs, occasionally let down by inept plotting." - Brian Stableford. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-165. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-213. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1707. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-230. A fine copy in good or better dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap with light wear at spine ends and corner tips and tanning to spine panel and along flap folds. (#174078)