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This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. This subject contains information from the Expanded Cthulhu Mythos, and not based on H.P. Lovecraft's works directly. This subject contains information from the "Lovecraft Circle" Myth Cycles, and while guided by HPL are not based on his work alone. 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
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