(8vo) original black leather-backed red cloth, spine lettered in golden-gilt, marbled endpapers, attached red silk-ribbon bookmark, color pictorial jacket, publisher's original red cloth clamshell box with interior black velvet lining and a color pictorial spine label. No. 221 of 345 hand-numbered copies. First Edition.
Signed by 39 of the contributing authors on the four specially inserted leaves before the title page. Signatures include: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, James Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, George R.R. Martin, Damon Knight, Charles L. Grant, George Alec Effinger, Whitley Strieber, L. Sprague de Camp, David Morrell, William F. Nolan, Jack Williamson, Joyce Carol Oates, the editor, and others. Collects "for the first time in permanent hardcover" 45 classic horror stories, chosen by the author's themselves for this edition. Of the 40 contributors only Joseph Payne Brennan did not sign, having died prior to the books publication.