DARK NIGHTS

by Thomas Burke

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, n.d. 1944 . Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing with first printing statement on copyright page. Twelve stories; mixed collection including horror novelette, The Bloomsbury Wonder, and several macabre mysteries. The psychology of murder seems to have fascinated Burke, who invented an odd metaphysical explanation for it in his most famous and best story, 'The

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