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Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

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Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
Jacket illustration by Robert Crane for Night's Yawning Peal
EditorAugust Derleth
Cover artistRobert Crane
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy, horror
PublisherArkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy
Publication date
1952
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesviii, 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.

An abridged paperback omitting several stories was published by Signet in 1974 as Night's Yawning Peal

Contents

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

Sources

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  • 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.