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Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

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Cover artist
  
Robert Crane

Publication date
  
1952

Pages
  
viii, 280 pp

Author
  
August Derleth

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1952

Country
  
United States of America

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Publisher
  
Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror

Similar
  
August Derleth books, Horror fiction books

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company is an anthology of supernatural short stories edited by August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy in an edition of 4,500 copies. The cover price on the first edition is $3.00. It is the second and last book that Arkham published with Pellegrini and Cudahy.

Contents

Contents

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company contains the following tales:

  1. "Foreword"
  2. "Mr. George" by Stephen Grendon
  3. "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  4. "The Sign" by Lord Dunsany
  5. "The La Prello Paper" by Carl Jacobi
  6. "The Gorge of the Churels" by H. Russell Wakefield
  7. "Dhoh" by Manly Wade Wellman
  8. "The Churchyard Yew" by J. Sheridan LeFanu
  9. "Technical Slip" by John Beynon Harris
  10. "The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch
  11. "Hector" by Michael West
  12. "Roman Remains" by Algernon Blackwood
  13. "A Damsel With a Dulcimer" by Malcolm Ferguson
  14. "The Suppressed Edition" by Richard Curle
  15. "The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth
  16. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H. P. Lovecraft

Reprints

  • New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, priced at $3.50.
  • London: Consul, 1965 (abridged, omits The Case of Charles Dexter Ward).
  • New York: New American Library, 1974 (abridged).

    • References

    Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Wikipedia
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