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Dwellers in Darkness
Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Dwellers in DarknessAuthor(s) August Derleth Cover artist Frank Utpatel Country United States Language English Genre(s) Horror, Fantasy short stories Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1976 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 203 pp ISBN 0-87054-074-2 OCLC Number 2155673 Dewey Decimal 813/.5/2 LC Classification PZ3.D445 Dw3 PS3507.E69 Dwellers in Darkness is a collection of stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1976 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,926 copies. It was the author's eighth collection of stories published by Arkham House. Two stories from Derleth's Judge Peck series are included in the collection. Also included is "Ghost Lake", the last story completed by Derleth before he died in 1971.
Contents
Dwellers in Darkness contains the following tales:
- "The Ghost Walk"
- "The Ormolu Clock"
- "A Knocking in the Wall"
- "The Lost Path"
- "The Place of Desolation"
- "The Patchwork Quilt"
- "The Island Out of Space"
- "The Night Road"
- "Come to Me"
- "Memoir for Lucas Payne"
- "The Passing of Eric Holm"
- "Man in the Dark"
- "The Song of the Peewee"
- "Open, Sesame!"
- "Ghost Lake"
- "The Element of Chance"
- "Fool Proof"
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.. pp. 116. 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. 52.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 139–140. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 122. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
Categories:- 1976 short story collections
- Single-author horror short story collections
- Fantasy short story collections
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