The Opener of the Way

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The Opener of the Way
Dust-jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne for The Opener of the Way
Author	Robert Bloch
Cover artist	Ronald Clyne
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	fantasy, horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1945
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xi, 309 pp
ISBN	NA

The Opener of the Way is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Robert Bloch. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,065 copies.

Most of the stories had appeared in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s and 1940s.

[edit] Contents

The Opener of the Way contains the following tales:

1. "By Way of Introduction"
2. "The Cloak"
3. "Beetles"
4. "The Fiddler's Fee"
5. "The Mannikin"
6. "The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton"
7. "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"
8. "The Seal of the Satyr"
9. "The Dark Demon"
10. "The Faceless God"
11. "The House of the Hatchet"
12. "The Opener of the Way"
13. "Return to the Sabbath"
14. "The Mandarin's Canaries"
15. "Waxworks"
16. "The Feast in the Abbey"
17. "Slave of the Flames"
18. "The Shambler from the Stars"
19. "Mother of Serpents"
20. "The Secret of Sebek"
21. "The Eyes of the Mummy"
22. "One Way to Mars"

[edit] References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 11-12. 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., 28. 
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 31. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 54-55. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.