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Roads (novel)

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Cover artist
  
Virgil Finlay

Publication date
  
1948

Pages
  
110 pp

Author
  
Seabury Quinn

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Country
  
United States of America

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1948

Genre
  
Fantasy literature

Illustrator
  
Virgil Finlay

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Roads is a short novel by author Seabury Quinn. It was published by Arkham House in 1948 in an edition of 2,137 copies. It was Arkham House's first illustrated book and the author's first hardcover.

The story, in an unrevised edition, originally appeared in the January 1938 issue of Weird Tales magazine.

Roads is a Christmas story that traces the origins of Santa Claus from the beginning of the Christian era.

The story is split into three parts:

  • "The Road to Bethlehem"
  • "The Road to Calvary"
  • "The Long, Long Road"
  • Roads was reissued in 2005 by Red Jacket Press, as a fully authorized facsimile reproduction of the original Arkham House edition.

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    Roads (novel) Wikipedia