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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1945

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Country
  
United States of America

Publication date
  
1945

Pages
  
274 pp

Author
  
August Derleth

Cover artist
  
Ronald Clyne

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
August Derleth books, Short Stories

Something Near is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1945 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House. 2,054 copies were printed. The collection has never been reprinted.

Contents

Most of the stories had appeared earlier in the magazine Weird Tales.

Contents

Something Near contains the following tales:

  1. "A Thin Gentleman with Gloves"
  2. "Mr. Ames' Devil"
  3. "A Wig for Miss Devore"
  4. "Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind"
  5. "Pacific 421"
  6. "Headlines for Tod Shayne"
  7. "No Light for Uncle Henry"
  8. "Lansing's Luxury"
  9. "Carousel"
  10. "Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square"
  11. "Here, Daemos!"
  12. "McElwin's Glass"
  13. "An Elegy for Mr. Danielson"
  14. "The Satin Mask"
  15. "Motive"
  16. "The Metronome"
  17. "The Inverness Cape"
  18. "The Thing That Walked on the Wind"
  19. "Ithaqua"
  20. "Beyond the Threshold"
  21. "The Dweller in Darkness"

Reception

E. F. Bleiler found the collection to be "Mostly routine work". Francis T. Laney recommended Something Near as "a worthy, if not outstanding, addition to the Arkham series", saying that "Derleth is a thoroughly competent craftsman, and his better efforts in the genre are well deserving of hard covers".

References

Something Near Wikipedia