- The Night Side
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name = The Night Side
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = edited byAugust Derleth
illustrator =Lee Brown Coye
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country =United States
language = English
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genre = Fantasy Horrorshort stories
publisher =Rinehart & Company
release_date =1946
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = viii, 372 pp
isbn = NA
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followed_by ="The Night Side" is an anthology of Fantasy and Horror stories edited by
August Derleth and illustrated byLee Brown Coye . It was first published byRinehart & Company in 1946. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines "Amazing Stories ", "Collier's Weekly ", "Weird Tales ", "Saturday Review", "The London Mercury", "Unknown", "Astounding Stories ", "Esquire", "The Briarcliff Quarterly", "Cosmopolitan", "Blue Book", "Top-Notch" and "Fantastic Adventures " or in the collections "The Clock Strikes Twelve ", "The Children of the Pool", "Fearful Pleasures ", "Nights of the Round Table " and "My Grimmest Nightmare".Contents
* Foreword, by
August Derleth
* "The Colour Out of Space ", byH. P. Lovecraft
* "The First Sheaf", byH. Russell Wakefield
* "The Moon-Calle", byMacKinlay Kantor
* "The Extra Passenger", by Stephen Grendon
* "Bethmoora", byLord Dunsany
* "The Smoking Leg", by John Metcalfe
* "The Exalted Omega", byArthur Machen
* "Joshua", by R. Creighton-Buck
* "Enoch", byRobert Bloch
* "Cheese", byA. E. Coppard
* "Mr. Minchin’s Midsummer", byMargery Lawrence
* "Mimsy Were the Borogoves ", byLewis Padgett
* "The Eerie Mr. Murphy", byHoward E. Wandrei
* "The Smiling People", byRay Bradbury
* "The Face in the Mirror", byDenys Val Baker
* "Professor Pfaff’s Last Recital", by Alan Nelson
* "Seaton’s Aunt", byWalter de la Mare
* "The Mask of Medusa", byNelson S. Bond
* "One Head Well Done", by John D. Swain
* "Sammy Calls a Noobus", by Henry A. Norton
* "The Night Wire", by H. F. Arnold
* "The Three Marked Pennies", byMary Elizabeth Counselman
* "Nightmare", byMarjorie Bowen References
*cite web
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first = William G.
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title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
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accessdate = 2008-01-07
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=139| date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1
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