VISIAK, E. H. (pseudonym of PHYSICK, Edward Harold, 1878-1972). Medusa: A Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy, & Strange Horror. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. 8vo. [1]-286 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered green; facsimile reproduction dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THIS SCARCE NOVEL. 

Visiak's novel, "one of the rarest and most sought-after horror novels of all time," was listed by Karl Edward Wagner among the "13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels" in the June 1983 issue of Twilight Zone Magazine. In August of the same year R S Hadji listed it among the "13 Neglected Masterpieces of the Macabre." In addition to his poetry and supernatural fiction, Visiak was known as a chief authority on Milton, who appears here as an epigram: "Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards / The Ford." 

Facsimile jacket. Boards lightly rubbed, corners bumped, minor fraying, spine skewed. Endpapers heavily toned and foxed, ownership inscriptions in pencil to endpapers, light toning to margins throughout, edges foxed. Despite the facsimile jacket, a nice copy, better than usually seen.