Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
	Jacket illustration by Robert Crane for Night's Yawning Peal
Editor	August Derleth
Cover artist	Robert Crane
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror
Publisher	Arkham House with Pellegrini & Cudahy
Publication date	1952
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	viii, 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

"Foreword"
"Mr. George" by Stephen Grendon
"The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
"The Sign" by Lord Dunsany
"The La Prello Paper" by Carl Jacobi
"The Gorge of the Churels" by H. Russell Wakefield
"Dhoh" by Manly Wade Wellman
"The Churchyard Yew" by J. Sheridan LeFanu
"Technical Slip" by John Beynon Harris
"The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch
"Hector" by Michael West
"Roman Remains" by Algernon Blackwood
"A Damsel With a Dulcimer" by Malcolm Ferguson
"The Suppressed Edition" by Richard Curle
"The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth
"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H. P. Lovecraft

Sources

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.

v t e Works of August Derleth
Solar Pons	"In Re: Sherlock Holmes" – The Adventures of Solar Pons The Memoirs of Solar Pons Three Problems for Solar Pons The Return of Solar Pons The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons A Praed Street Dossier The Chronicles of Solar Pons The Solar Pons Omnibus The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
Horror	Someone in the Dark Something Near Not Long for this World The Survivor and Others The Mask of Cthulhu Lonesome Places The Trail of Cthulhu Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People The Watchers Out of Time and Others (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft) Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
Science fiction	Harrigan's File
Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"
Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft
History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders
Anthologies edited by	Sleep No More Who Knocks? The Night Side The Sleeping and the Dead Strange Ports of Call The Other Side of the Moon Beyond Time and Space Far Boundaries The Outer Reaches Beachheads in Space Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Worlds of Tomorrow Portals of Tomorrow Time to Come Dark Mind, Dark Heart New Worlds for Old The Sleeping and the Dead The Time of Infinity The Unquiet Grave When Evil Wakes From Other Worlds Over the Edge Travellers by Night Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Dark Things New Horizons
Commons

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