Travellers by Night is a collection of short horror stories edited by August Derleth. It is notable for containing the first printing of "The Horror from the Middle Span", a "posthumous collaboration" between Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft.
Behind the Mythos[]
First published in a run of 2,486 copies in 1964 by Derleth's specialist publisher Arkham House, Travellers by Night contains a total of 14 stories, none of which had been previously published.
Contents[]
- "The Cicerones", by Robert Aickman
- "Episode on Cain Street", by Joseph Payne Brennan
- "The Cellars", by J. Ramsey Campbell
- "The Man Who Rode the Trains", by Paul A. Carter
- "A Handful of Silver", by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
- "Denkirch", by David Drake
- "The Wild Man of the Sea", by William Hope Hodgson
- "The Unpleasantness at Carver House", by Carl Jacobi
- "The Terror of Anerley House School", by Margery Lawrence
- "The Horror From the Middle Span", by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
- "Not There", by John Metcalfe
- "Family Tree", by Frank D. Thayer, Jr.
- "Death of a Bumblebee", by H. Russell Wakefield
- "The Crater", by Donald Wandrei