Lonesome Places

Lonesome Places

Infobox Book
name = Lonesome Places
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image_caption = Dust-jacket photograph by Clarence J. Laughlin, lettering and design by Gary Gore, for "Lonesome Places"
author = August Derleth
illustrator =
cover_artist = photograph by Clarence J. Laughlin, lettering and design by Gary Gore
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fantasy, Horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1962
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 198 pp
isbn = NA
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followed_by =

"Lonesome Places" is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American author August Derleth. It was released in 1962 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,201 copies and was Derleth's fifth collection of weird tales. The collection contains the stories that Derleth believed to be his best of the preceding 15 years.

Contents

"Lonesome Places" contains the following tales:

# "The Lonesome Place"
# "Pikeman"
# "Kingsridge 214"
# "The Ebony Stick"
# "'Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall'"
# "The Closing Door"
# "A Room in a House"
# "Potts' Triumph"
# "Twilight Play"
# "The Disc Recorder"
# "Hector"
# "'Who Shall I Say is Calling?'"
# "The Extra Child"
# "The Place in the Woods"
# "Hallowe'en for Mr. Faulkner"
# "House—With Ghost"
# "The Slayers and the Slain"
# "The Dark Boy"

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=61-62| date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=39 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=76 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=84-85 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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