That’s the inside front cover above, complete with mummies, gruesome spectres, ghosts, a train chase, and - speaking of Sherlock Holmes - the words “The Game’s Afoot” scrawled on parchment (click for a bigger version). Many clamored for attention, but the one that practically jumped into my hands was The List of 7, by Mark Frost. They finally arrived today, carefully packed in tightly wrapped plastic, and I gently unwrapped them and settled in to examine my new treasures. Except that would probably dog ear the covers. Man, I could just lay these babies down on the floor and roll around in ’em. There’s even a beautiful copy of Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space, which I’ve lusted after ever since Violette Malan teased me with the cover in her article on science fiction mysteries last month. Lewis, Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Bellairs, and half a dozen more. Merritt’s The Moon Pool a smattering of Ursula K. Including four early volumes from Neal Barrett, Jr three vintage Lovecraft collections (one of them The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath) both Ballantine volumes of William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land one of Lin Carter’s better fantasy collections, Imaginary Worlds A. Twenty-eight volumes in terrific shape, for less than twenty bucks. Seriously, click on that link and look at them. Just look at at all those gorgeous vintage paperbacks. Like this one, which I found online last week.

The list of 7 mark frost