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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1962

Publisher
  
Arkham House

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Publication date
  
1962

Pages
  
198 pp

Author
  
August Derleth

Country
  
United States of America

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Cover artist
  
photograph by Clarence J. Laughlin, lettering and design by Gary Gore

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror

Similar
  
August Derleth books, Short Stories

Lonesome Places is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American author August Derleth. It was released in 1962 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,201 copies and was Derleth's fifth collection of weird tales. The collection contains the stories that Derleth believed to be his best of the preceding 15 years.

Contents

Lonesome Places contains the following tales:

  1. "The Lonesome Place"
  2. "Pikeman"
  3. "Kingsridge 214"
  4. "The Ebony Stick"
  5. "'Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall'"
  6. "The Closing Door"
  7. "A Room in a House"
  8. "Potts' Triumph"
  9. "Twilight Play"
  10. "The Disc Recorder"
  11. "Hector"
  12. "'Who Shall I Say is Calling?'"
  13. "The Extra Child"
  14. "The Place in the Woods"
  15. "Hallowe'en for Mr. Faulkner"
  16. "House—With Ghost"
  17. "The Slayers and the Slain"
  18. "The Dark Boy"

References

Lonesome Places Wikipedia
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