Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

Jacket illustration by Robert Crane for Night's Yawning Peal
Editor	August Derleth
Cover artist	Robert Crane
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror
Publisher	Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy
Publication date	1952
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	viii, 280

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company is an anthology of supernatural short stories edited by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy in an edition of 4,500 copies. The cover price on the first edition is $3.00. It is the second and last book that Arkham published with Pellegrini and Cudahy.

Contents

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company contains the following tales:

• "Foreword"
• "Mr. George" by Stephen Grendon
• "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
• "The Sign" by Lord Dunsany
• "The La Prello Paper" by Carl Jacobi
• "The Gorge of the Churels" by H. Russell Wakefield
• "Dhoh" by Manly Wade Wellman
• "The Churchyard Yew" by J. Sheridan LeFanu
• "Technical Slip" by John Beynon Harris
• "The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch
• "Hector" by Michael West
• "Roman Remains" by Algernon Blackwood
• "A Damsel With a Dulcimer" by Malcolm Ferguson
• "The Suppressed Edition" by Richard Curle
• "The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth
• "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H. P. Lovecraft

Sources

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 43. 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. pp. 34–35.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 59. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 74=75. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.