Watchers at the Strait Gate

Watchers at the Strait Gate

Dust-jacket illustration by Renée Radell.
Author	Russell Kirk
Illustrator	Andrew Smith
Cover artist	Renée Radell
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1984
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xiv, 256
ISBN	0-87054-098-X
OCLC	10323051
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3521.I665 W3 1984

Watchers at the Strait Gate is a collection of stories by American writer Russell Kirk. It was released in 1984 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House, and Kirk's third collection of supernatural stories. It was published in an edition of 3,459 copies.

Contents

Watchers at the Strait Gate contains the following tales:

1. "A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale"
2. "The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost"
3. "The Surly Sullen Bell"
4. "The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion"
5. "Uncle Isaiah"
6. "The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close"
7. "What Shadows We Pursue"
8. "Lex Talionis"
9. "Fate's Purse"
10. "An Encounter by Mortstone Pond"
11. "Watchers at the Strait Gate"

Sources

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 135–136. 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. p. 55.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 152. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 130. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.