Jumbee And Other Uncanny Tales Whitehead, Henry S. Horror,Supernatural

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xii [1-3] 4-394 [395: colophon] [396: blank], publisher's black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 1559 copies printed. The sixth Arkham House book. Whitehead's posthumously published first collection of weird fiction, fourteen stories including eleven of the twenty-five stories he published in WEIRD TALES between 1924 and 1933. All but one of the stories collected here "are set in the West Indies and are redolent with local color . Whitehead was a cut above the general run of pulp writers, and his stories feature some remarkable motifs, occasionally let down by inept plotting." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-165. Includes a 6-page biography "Henry S. Whitehead," by Robert H. Barlow. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-213. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1706. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-229. Mild bruises to lower fore-edge corners, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap with matching bruises, light wear at spine ends and corner tips, and tanning to spine panel and along flap folds. (#174077)