Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-x [1-2] 3-374, illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing with "FR" monogram on copyright page. A presentation copy with signed inscription by M. P. Shiel on the front free endpaper: "Harvey Gocher / from M. P. Shiel / Nov 1. '44." The first appearance in America of "Shiel's "The House of Sounds," first collected in Shiel's THE PALE APE AND OTHER PULSES (1911). "The House of Sounds," a revised version of "Vaila," which H. P. Lovecraft termed "Shiel's undoubted masterpiece . This story, in its final form, deserves a place among the foremost things of its kind." The first anthology edited by Derleth, published in September 1944, collecting twenty stories by M. P. Shiel, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and others, with illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, and foreword and notes by Derleth. "August Derleth, novelist, poet, pulp-writer and publisher,