The Night Side
1947 anthology edited by August Derleth
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Editor | August Derleth |
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Illustrator | Lee Brown Coye |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, horror |
Publisher | Rinehart & Company |
Publication date | 1947 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | viii, 372 |
The Night Side is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by American writer August Derleth and illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. It was first published by Rinehart & Company in 1947. 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", by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The First Sheaf", by H. Russell Wakefield
- "The Moon-Caller", by MacKinlay Kantor
- "The Extra Passenger", by Stephen Grendon
- "Bethmoora", by Lord Dunsany
- "The Smoking Leg", by John Metcalfe
- "The Exalted Omega", by Arthur Machen
- "Joshua", by R. Creighton-Buck
- "Enoch", by Robert Bloch
- "Cheese", by A. E. Coppard
- "Mr. Minchin’s Midsummer", by Margery Lawrence
- "Mimsy Were the Borogoves", by Lewis Padgett
- "The Eerie Mr. Murphy", by Howard E. Wandrei
- "The Smiling People", by Ray Bradbury
- "The Face in the Mirror", by Denys Val Baker
- "Professor Pfaff’s Last Recital", by Alan Nelson
- "Seaton’s Aunt", by Walter de la Mare
- "The Mask of Medusa", by Nelson 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", by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
- "Nightmare", by Marjorie Bowen
References
- Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-07.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 139. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
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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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