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Watchers at the Strait Gate

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Illustrator
  
Andrew Smith

Publication date
  
1984

Pages
  
xiv, 256 pp

Originally published
  
1984

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Country
  
United States of America

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-87054-098-X

Author
  
Russell Kirk

Cover artist
  
Renée Radell

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

Similar
  
The surly sullen bell, The Princess of All Lands, Edmund Burke, Enemies of the permane, Redeeming the Time

Watchers at the Strait Gate is a collection of stories by author Russell Kirk. It was released in 1984 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House, and Kirk's third collection of supernatural stories. It was published in an edition of 3,459 copies.

Contents

Watchers at the Strait Gate contains the following tales:

  1. "A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale"
  2. "The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost"
  3. "The Surly Sullen Bell"
  4. "The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion"
  5. "Uncle Isaiah"
  6. "The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close"
  7. "What Shadows We Pursue"
  8. "Lex Talionis"
  9. "Fate's Purse"
  10. "An Encounter by Mortstone Pond"
  11. "Watchers at the Strait Gate"

References

Watchers at the Strait Gate Wikipedia