Night's Black Agents
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 Dust Jacket Illustration by Ronald Clyne for Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber |
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| Author | Fritz Leiber |
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| Cover artist | Ronald Clyne |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | fantasy, horror short stories |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
| Released | 1947 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | x, 237 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
Night's Black Agents is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Fritz Leiber. It was released in 1947 and was the author's first book. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 3,084 copies.
Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Unknown and Weird Tales.
[edit] Contents
Night's Black Agents contains the following tales:
- "Foreword"
- "Smoke Ghost"
- "The Automatic Pistol"
- "The Inheritance"
- "The Hill and the Hole"
- "The Dreams of Albert Moreland"
- "The Hound/ Diary in the Snow"
- "The Man Who Never Grew Young"
- "The Sunken Land"
- "Adept's Gambit"
[edit] Reprints
- New York: Ballantine, 1961 (as Tales from Night's Blank Agents, abridged, omits "Adept's Gambit")
- New York: Berkley, 1978 (two stories added).
[edit] References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 27-28. 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., 31.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 44. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 64. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
