Demons by Daylight

Demons by Daylight
Demons by Daylight  
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Dust-jacket illustration by Eddie Jones for Demons by Daylight
Author(s) Ramsey Campbell
Cover artist Eddie Jones
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date 1973
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 153 pp
ISBN NA

Demons by Daylight is a collection of stories by author Ramsey Campbell. Released in 1973, it was the author's second short-story collection, after The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants. Like the earlier book, it was published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition totaling 3,472 copies and with dust jacket art commissioned by Campbell.

It has since appeared in a number of reprint editions, including a 1990 Carroll & Graf paperback.

Contents

Critical response

The book's first appearance induced T. E. D. Klein to write a highly positive review, "Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation", and critic S. T. Joshi has stated[1] that:

its ... allusiveness of narration; careful, at times even obsessive focusing on the fleeting sensations and psychological processes of characters; an aggressively modern setting that allows commentary on social, cultural and political issues - all conjoin to make Demons by Daylight perhaps the most important book of horror fiction since Lovecraft's The Outsider and Others.

Contents

Demons by Daylight contains the following stories, grouped into three sections:

  1. Nightmares
    • "Potential"
    • "The End of a Summer's Day"
    • "At First Sight"
  2. Errol Undercliffe: a tribute
  3. Relationships
    • "The Sentinels"
    • "The Guy"
    • "The Old Horns"
    • "The Lost"
    • "The Stocking"
    • "The Second Staircase"
    • "Concussion"
    • "The Enchanted Fruit"
    • "Made in Goatswood"

Reprints

  • London: Star, 1975.
  • New York: Jove/HBJ, 1979 (slightly different contents).
  • New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990.

Notes

  1. ^ Joshi, S. T. Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction (2001), p.56

References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.. pp. 104–105. 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. 50. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 130–131. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 117. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. 

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