Travellers by Night

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Travellers by Night
Dust-jacket illustration by James Dietrich, design by Gary Gore for Travellers by Night
Author	edited by August Derleth
Cover artist	James Dietrich, design by Gary Gore
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	261 pp
ISBN	NA

Travellers by Night is an anthology of horror stories edited by August Derleth. It was released in 1967 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,486 copies. None of the stories had been previously published.

[edit] Contents

Travellers by Night contains the following tales:

1. "The Cicerones", by Robert Aickman
2. "Episode on Cain Street", by Joseph Payne Brennan
3. "The Cellars", by J. Ramsey Campbell
4. "The Man Who Rode the Trains", by Paul A. Carter
5. "A Handful of Silver", by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
6. "Denkirch", by David Drake
7. "The Wild Man of the Sea", by William Hope Hodgson
8. "The Unpleasantness at Carver House", by Carl Jacobi
9. "The Terror of Anerley House School", by Margery Lawrence
10. "The Horror From the Middle Span", by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
11. "Not There", by John Metcalfe
12. "Family Tree", by Frank D. Thayer, Jr.
13. "Death of a Bumblebee", by H. Russell Wakefield
14. "The Crater", by Donald Wandrei

[edit] Reprints

• London: Victor Gollancz, 1968.

[edit] References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 84-85. 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., 44. 
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 97-98. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 99. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.