Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
Jacket illustration by Robert Crane for Night's Yawning Peal
Author(s)	edited by August Derleth
Cover artist	Robert Crane
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy
Publication date	1952
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	viii, 280 pp
ISBN	NA

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. It is the second and last book that Arkham published with Pellegrini and Cudahy.

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

• London: Consul, 1965 (abridged, omits The Case of Charles Dexter Ward).
• New York: New American Library, 1974 (abrdged).

References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.. p. 43. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. 
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 34–35. 
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 59. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 74=75. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.