Not Long for this World
1948 collection of short stories by August Derleth
Jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne. | |
Author | August Derleth |
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Cover artist | Ronald Clyne |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, horror |
Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1948 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | x, 221 |
Not Long for this World is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1948 and was the author's third collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,067 copies.
Most of the stories had originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
Contents
Not Long for this World contains the following tales:
- "Foreword"
- "The Shadow on the Sky"
- "Birkett's Twelfth Corpse"
- "The White Moth"
- "Nellie Foster"
- "Wild Grapes"
- "Feigman's Beard"
- "The Drifting Snow"
- "The Return of Sarah Purcell"
- "Logoda's Heads"
- "The Second Print"
- "Mrs. Elting Does Her Part"
- "A Little Knowledge"
- "Mrs. Bentley's Daughter"
- "Those Who Seek"
- "Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream"
- "The Tenant"
- "The Lilac Bush"
- "'Just a Song at Twilight'"
- "A Matter of Sight"
- "Prince Borgia's Mass"
- "A Dinner at Imola"
- "Lesandro's Familiar"
- "The Bridge of Sighs"
- "A Cloak from Messr. Lando"
- "He Shall Come"
- "Mrs. Lannisfree"
- "After You, Mr. Henderson"
- "Baynter's Imp"
- "The Lost Day"
- "A Collector of Stones"
- "The God-Box"
- "Saunder's Little Friend"
Sources
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 34=35. 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. p. 32.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 50. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
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Works of August Derleth
- "In Re: Sherlock Holmes" – The Adventures of Solar Pons
- The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- Three Problems for Solar Pons
- The Return of Solar Pons
- The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
- Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
- The Casebook of Solar Pons
- A Praed Street Dossier
- The Chronicles of Solar Pons
- The Solar Pons Omnibus
- The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
- Someone in the Dark
- Something Near
- Not Long for this World
- The Survivor and Others
- The Mask of Cthulhu
- Lonesome Places
- The Trail of Cthulhu
- Mr. George and Other Odd Persons
- Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People
- The Watchers Out of Time and Others (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
- Dwellers in Darkness
- In Lovecraft's Shadow
- The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
- The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years
- Wisconsin Murders
- Sleep No More
- Who Knocks?
- The Night Side
- The Sleeping and the Dead
- Strange Ports of Call
- The Other Side of the Moon
- Beyond Time and Space
- Far Boundaries
- The Outer Reaches
- Beachheads in Space
- Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
- Worlds of Tomorrow
- Portals of Tomorrow
- Time to Come
- Dark Mind, Dark Heart
- New Worlds for Old
- The Sleeping and the Dead
- The Time of Infinity
- The Unquiet Grave
- When Evil Wakes
- From Other Worlds
- Over the Edge
- Travellers by Night
- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- Dark Things
- New Horizons
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