Books

313pp. Black cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Binding tight, spine straight, corners square. Pages evenly age toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows some wear at spine ends, and some rubbing to front panel. Small, closed tear at lower front corner of back panel. Dust jacket is intact, not price clipped. Jacket in mylar sleeve. Bradbury's first collection of stories, edited by August Derleth and issued in a run of only 3112 copies. Bradbury didn't authorize a reprint edition of the book for years, due to the fact many of the stories appeared in other books over the years. Finally, in 2001, he gave the go-ahead to an edition from Gauntlet Press, and provided an introductory essay.

Dark Carnival is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, first published in 1947 by Arkham House. It was Bradbury's first published book. This collection presents stories with elements of horror, fantasy, and the macabre, as one might expect from the title and the publisher's association with H.P. Lovecraft's mythos.