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T: What are you doing? A: Making a spooky elist for the Halloween season. T: Halloween’s a season? A: Duh! Try not to be scared of all this Sci-Fi and Horror I’ve assembled. OOooOOoo! T: [walks away] A: I knew it was spooky!

eCatalog 30: Sci-fi/Horror 1. Doctor Who: The Auction. Saturday 11th May 1991 London: Bonhams 1991 $100 Auction sale of costumes and related material from the BBC.

2. Clive BARKER The Damnation Game London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1985) $50 Author's first novel, one of only 3000 copies published. Read More

3. Leigh BRACKETT The Starmen New York: Gnome Press (1952) $65 Author's first book.

4. Ray BRADBURY I Sing The Body Electric! New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969 $45 First edition.

5. Ray BRADBURY, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Jack Davis, and Graham Ingels EC Portfolio Five Adel, Iowa: Russ Cochran 1974 $85 An oversized collection of reprints from the E.C. Comics with several complete stories from Ray Bradbury and Al Feldstein with art from Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Jack Davis, and Graham Ingels.

Read More 6. Michael CRICHTON Jurassic Park New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1990 $100 Basis for the spectacularly successful Steven Spielberg film.

7. Roald DAHL Kiss Kiss New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1960 $200 The author's third collection of stories, including such macabre classics as "Royal Jelly" and "Georgy Porgy."

8. L. Sprague de CAMP The Conan Swordbook Baltimore: Mirage 1969 $95 One of approximately 1500 numbered copies.

Read More 9. (Philip K. DICK, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague De Camp, Bruce Elliott, John Wyndham, David Alexander, Charles E. Fritch, H.B. Fyfe, Leah Bodine Drake, Lawrence Manning, and Randall Garrett) Lester DEL REY, editor Fantasy Fiction, August 1953, Vol. 1, No. 3. New York: Future Publications, Inc. 1953 $40 Stories include "Out in the Garden" by Philip K. Dick and "The Frost Giant's Daughter" by Robert E. Howard (with an editing assist from L. Sprague De Camp).

Read More 10. (Edward GOREY) [Broadside]: Dracula. Frank Langella in the Edward Gorey production of Dracula Directed by Dennis Rosa New York: Martin Beck Theatre 1977 $150 Single quarto sheet. One side reproduces the Edward Gorey poster art for the play, for which he won a Tony Award; the other side reproduces the review from New York magazine.

11. Stephen KING The Green Mile Parts One-Six New York: Signet (1996) $60 Complete set of this serially produced novel.

Read More 12. Stephen KING, Dan Simmons, George R.R. Martin Night Visions 5 (Arlington Heights, Illinois): (Dark Harvest) (1988) $50 Signed by Dan Simmons.

13. (Stephen KING, Saul Bass) [Poster]: The Shining [No place]: Warner Brothers 1980. $300 Original one sheet poster designed by Saul Bass for the theatrical release of the Stanley Kubrick film The Shining starring Jack Nicholson.

14. Dean R. KOONTZ, F. Paul Wilson, Sheri S. Tepper, Ray Garton Night Visions 6 Arlington Heights, New York: Dark Harvest 1988 $65 One of 600 numbered copies signed by all the contributors and the illustrator.

Read More 15. (H.P. LOVECRAFT) The Phantagraph. December 1935 Oakman, Alabama: The Terrestrial Fantascience Guild 1935 $65 This cheaply produced fanzine edited by Donald A. Wollheim prints the second appearance poem "The Dweller" by Lovecraft as well as "Letter to Donald A. Wollheim".

16. George LUCAS and Donald F. Glut The Empire Strikes Back: The Illustrated Edition New York: Ballantine / Del Rey Books (1980) $40 Illustrated By Ralph McQuarrie.

17. Edgar Allan POE The Raven Philadelphia: The Free Library [1995?] $150 Reproduction of the only known Poe manuscript of "The Raven" issued by The Free Library of Philadelphia to mark the gift by The Richard Gimbel Foundation for Literary Research of Colonel Gimbel's Poe collection.

Read More 18. Anne RICE The Queen of the Damned New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988 $150 Inscribed by the author. The third installment in The Vampire Chronicles, basis for the film with Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend.

19. Carl SAGAN Contact New York: Simon & Schuster (1985) $40 Basis for, and better than, the film featuring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey about humanity's first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.

20. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Hobbit, or There and Back Again Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1966) / [but circa 1970] $150 A handsome, relatively early reprint of the first book set in Tolkien's Middle Earth.

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