Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
# Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

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

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

* "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.
