Touch Wood: Volume Two of Narrow Houses (Horror Anthology)

London: Little Brown & Co, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing. Hardback book is tight clean and very square. Boards sharp and clean, gilt perfect. Text block has light toning to edges. Feels very lightly read. Fine condition. Jacket likewise fine, as it has been kept in a archival cover since purchase. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a quality addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A lovely example of this uncommon horror anthology title, the follow up to the Narrow Houses anthology of the previous year. It contains 25 stories by some of the best genre writers: Touch Wood T. Winter-Damon; Holding Hands by Charles L. Grant; Lodgings by Colin Greenland; Breath by Adam Corbin Fusco; Heart Flesh by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; The Ten O'Clock Horses by Paul Lewis; Funny Weather by Steve Lockley; For Love of Mother by Yvonne Navarro; Eight Limbs by John Brunner; Little Lessons in Gardening by Karl Edward Wagner; His Own Petard by Spider Robinson; Spoil by Stan Nicholls; Dead Man's Shoes by Charles de Lint; The Coffin Trimmer by Bill Pronzini; Steps by Stella Hargreaves; The Owner by Michael Marshall Smith; The Woods Be Dark by Bentley Little; Traffic by Simon Ings; The Mouse by Neil Gaiman; The Ghost and the Soldier by William Relling, Jr.; Oracle Bones by Garry Kilworth; Borderlands by Christopher Evans; The Wager by Thomas F. Monteleone; Mysteries of the Word: A Dark Fable by Stanley Wiater; Splints by D. F. Lewis