The House of the Hundred Heads by Robert Moss First Edition Robert Hale 1939. No inscriptions, unblemished throughout. Covers are G+. In (scarce) original near VG dust jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.

In the mist-veiled moors of 1930s Yorkshire, the decrepit House of the Hundred Heads looms as a bastion of decayed grandeur, its name whispered in dread for the hundred carved heads leering from its walls—each a sentinel of ancient curses. When young architect Julian Haverford arrives to survey the ruin for demolition, he unearths a hidden chamber revealing the estate's macabre history: a 17th-century alchemist's pact with infernal forces, binding the family to spectral servitude. As Julian's fiancée vanishes amid the house's labyrinthine corridors, he confronts ghostly apparitions, forged grimoires, and a vengeful descendant plotting resurrection. Moss's 1939 novel throbs with Gothic menace, psychological unraveling, and supernatural suspense, chronicling a descent into the house's hundred-headed horrors.

The House of the Hundred Heads lures collectors as a spectral rarity in Robert Moss's shadowy canon, its moorland phantoms a beguiling fusion of Gothic revival and interwar occultism. Readers shiver through its corridor-choked chills and Julian's fraying fortitude, evoking M.R. James's antiquarian apparitions or Daphne du Maurier's coastal crypts. Its cultural gloom evokes 1930s fascination with ancestral hauntings and alchemical arcana, beguiling historical horror seekers. Collectors pursue its elusiveness among Moss's works, while readers brave the head-haunted halls and curse-cracking climaxes, deeming it a leering essential for devotees of Gothic enigmas and hundred-headed hauntings.