Watchers at the Strait Gate
- Watchers at the Strait Gate
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name = Watchers at the Strait Gate
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Renée Redell for "Watchers at the Strait Gate"
author = Russell Kirk
illustrator = Andrew Smith
cover_artist = Renée Redell
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fantasy, Horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1984
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xiv, 256 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-098-X
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"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:
# "A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale"
# "The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost"
# "The Surly Sullen Bell"
# "The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion"
# "Uncle Isaiah"
# "The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close"
# "What Shadows We Pursue"
# "Lex Talionis"
# "Fate's Purse"
# "An Encounter by Mortstone Pond"
# "Watchers at the Strait Gate"
References
*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=135-136 | 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=55 | 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=152 | 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=130 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4
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