My copy also has found its way to my lair, and it is every bit as well-produced as any of Roy Squires' own pubs. Add to this the importance of this version being made available, and I can't help but deem this a must-have item. Add to this the very real fact that this is going to sky-rocket in price once it's o.p.
Cudos, Terry!
Scott

received my copy just before going to visit gkids in OK -- looking forward to diving in tonight - One of my favorite tales -

Interesting, and I'm not sure it isn't a little better without the extra character and the highly moral happy ending - however, it does add it to the small list of "happy" endings, like "The Charnal God"(which I have always loved) and the "Schizoid Creator", which is for me a happy story since the protagonist (a shrink) gets his just deserts -
As for "Abbott", I always felt a little wistful pondering poor old Hoaraph moping about wondering what happened to the expedition to bring him another morsel for his lust - perhaps a society for the just treatment of the depraved and decadent should be found - perhaps there is one already -

:-D Picked up a copy at Odyssey 2010 (pretty cheap too) about a week ago! :-D

Does anybody know if this book is still floating around out there? And for those lucky souls who do own it, what is it like?

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> Does anybody know if this book is still floating
> around out there? And for those lucky souls who do
> own it, what is it like?

It is about a 5 x 8 pamphlet style bound in brown paper - solid little piece - read my comments above for further on this tale - Clark and I discussed this tale, mainly around my admiration for it, not, at that time, knowing any different ending than originally published - still an excellent tale, capturing the terror of the desert Djinn.

I just a second ago posted a new thread on RAS press and Mr Squires...

Thanks for this info. I have one chapbook by Bieler Press (who printed Black Abbot), totally unrelated to Weird literature, but it is beautiful in its own right, and is just a technical manual on letterpress printing.

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