Roads (novel)

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Roads

Dust-jacket illustration by Virgil Finlay for Roads
Author Seabury Quinn
Illustrator Virgil Finlay
Cover artist Virgil Finlay
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy novel
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date 1948
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 110 pp
ISBN NA

Roads is a short novel by author Seabury Quinn. It was published by Arkham House in 1948[1] in an edition of 2,137 copies. It was Arkham House's first illustrated book and the author's first hardcover.

The story, in an unrevised edition, originally appeared in the January 1938 issue of Weird Tales magazine.[1]

Roads is a Christmas story that traces the origins of Santa Claus from the beginning of the Christian era.

The story is split into three parts:

  • "The Road to Bethlehem"
  • "The Road to Calvary"
  • "The Long, Long Road"

Roads was reissued in 2005 by Red Jacket Press, as a fully authorized facsimile reproduction of the original Arkham House edition.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Roads by Seabury Quinn Red Jacket Press, "First published in the January 1938 issue of Weird Tales"

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 32-33. 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., 31-32. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 49. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 68. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.