The Beasts of Brahm

The Beasts of Brahm is the first volume in the Midnight House program to bring the remarkable thrillers of Mark Hansom back into print. An eerie mystery that seamlessly blends the genres of the whodunit with supernatural horror, The Beasts of Brahm has been virtually unobtainable in any form since it was reprinted by Mellifont in 1940. Copies of either edition of this book are exceedingly rare, with specialist dealers asking hundreds of dollars for the Wright & Brown first edition. The late Karl Edward Wagner cited Hansom’s The Shadow on the House as one of his top thirteen novels of supernatural horror. While we share Mr. Wagner’s enthusiasm for that novel, our research has turned up several other works by Mr. Hansom that we consider equal to or even superior to The Shadow on the House. Such is the scarcity of Hansom’s books that we would venture to guess that few modern readers have had the pleasure of reading any of his other novels.

Noted artist Allen Koszowski has created new cover artwork based on the original dustjacket. Editor John Pelan examines the mysterious disappearance of the author, who vanished after writing a string of highly successful supernatural thrillers.

Limited to 450 numbered copies