Tales from Not Long for This World

TURN UP THE LIGHTS AND LOCK THE WINDOWS These stories are of all kinds—there are tales of psychic residue and ghastly vengeance, of witchcraft and ancient sorcery, of poetic justice and pure horror, of black magic and THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT August Derleth, that extraordinarily prolific writer (these stories are from his 55th book!) is a master of the macabre, an authority on supernatural and uncanny fiction. The 22 tales which compose this collection are actually a kind of cross-section of Derleth's writing in the field up to 1948, the pick of twenty years of happy delving into the gruesome antics of creatures beyond the threshold of death. Here are such delicious spine-tinglers as the stories of the gibbet in the clouds, the man who returned to the scene of the crime (except that he had been the victim),the housewife who knew exactly what to do with a vampire, and (for gardeners) the strange effects of using human bodies as organic feeding matter. As well as many others too horrifying to describe... So—TURN UP THE LIGHTS! CONTENTS 1. The Shadow on the Sky (1932) 2. Birkett's Twelfth Corpse (1933) 3. The White Moth (1933) 4. Nellie Foster (1933) 5. Wild Grapes (1934) 6. Feigman's Beard (1934) 7. The Drifting Snow (1939) 8. The Return of Sarah Purcell (1936) 9. Logoda's Heads (1939) 10. The Second Print (1939) 11. Mrs. Elting Does Her Part (1939) 12. Mrs. Bentley's Daughter (1930) 13. Those Who Seek (1932) 14. Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream (1935) 15. The Lilac Bush (1930) 16. A Matter of Sight (1930) 17. Mrs. Lannisfree (1945) 18. After You, Mr. Henderson (1940) 19. The Lost Day (1945) 20. A Collector of Stones (1946) 21 The God-Box (1945) 22. Saunder's Little Friend (1948) * First published in 1948 by Arkham House This edition is abridged (11 stories are excluded)