Tales from the Nightside

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Title Tales from the Nightside

Dust-jacket illustration, Nightmare in Red, by Michael Whelan for Tales from the Nightside
Author Charles L. Grant
Illustrator Andrew Smith
Cover artist Michael Whelan
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Released 1981
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xii, 228 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-87054-091-2

Tales from the Nightside is a collection of stories by author Charles L. Grant. It was released in 1981 and was the author's first book by Arkham House and was published in an edition of 4,121 copies.

[edit] Contents

Tales from the Nightside contains the following stories:

  1. "Foreword", by Stephen King
  2. Tales from Oxrun Station
    • "Coin of the Realm"
    • "Old Friends"
    • "Home"
    • "If Damon Comes"
    • "A Night of Dark Intent"
  3. Tales from Hawthorne Street
    • "The Gentle Passing of a Hand"
    • "When All the Children Call My Name"
    • "Needle Song"
    • "Something There Is"
  4. Tales from the Nightside
    • "Come Dance With Me on My Pony's Grave"
    • "The Three of Tens"
    • "Digging"
    • "From All the Fields of Hail and Fire"
    • "The Key to English"
    • "White Wolf Calling"

[edit] Reprints

  • London: Futura, 1988.
  • New York: Tor, 1990.

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 126. 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., 54. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 147. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 127. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.