Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
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 Jacket illustration by Robert Crane for Night's Yawning Peal | |
| Editor | August Derleth |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Robert Crane |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror |
| Publisher | Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | viii, 280 |
Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company is an anthology of supernatural short stories edited by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy in an edition of 4,500 copies. The cover price on the first edition is $3.00. It is the second and last book that Arkham published with Pellegrini and Cudahy.
An abridged paperback omitting several stories was published by Signet in 1974 as Night's Yawning Peal
Contents
Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company contains the following tales:
- "Foreword"
- "Mr. George" by Stephen Grendon
- "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "The Sign" by Lord Dunsany
- "The La Prello Paper" by Carl Jacobi
- "The Gorge of the Churels" by H. Russell Wakefield
- "Dhoh" by Manly Wade Wellman
- "The Churchyard Yew" by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- "Technical Slip" by John Beynon Harris
- "The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch
- "Hector" by Michael West
- "Roman Remains" by Algernon Blackwood
- "A Damsel With a Dulcimer" by Malcolm Ferguson
- "The Suppressed Edition" by Richard Curle
- "The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth
- "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H. P. Lovecraft
Sources
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 43. 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. 34–35.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 59. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 74–75. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
