Dark Things

Dark Things
Dust-jacket illustration by Herb Arnold, design by Gary Gore for Dark Things
Author	edited by August Derleth
Cover artist	Herb Arnold, design by Gary Gore
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	330 pp

Dark Things is an anthology of horror stories edited by August Derleth. It was released in 1971 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,051 copies. It was Derleth's fourth anthology of previously unpublished stories released by Arkham House. A translation in Japanese has also been released.

Dark Things contains the following tales:

"The Funny Farm", by Robert Bloch
"The Eyes of Mme. Dupree", by P.H. Booth
"'The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins'", by Joseph Payne Brennan
"Napier Court", by Ramsey Campbell
"Shaggai", by Lin Carter (Cthulhu Mythos tale)
"The Dweller in the Tomb", by Lin Carter (Cthulhu Mythos tale)
"The House by the Tarn", by Basil Copper
"The Knocker at the Portico", by Basil Copper
"Lord of the Depths", by David Drake
"Omega", by Alice R. Hill
"The House in the Oaks", by Robert E. Howard and August Derleth
"The Singleton Barrier", by Carl Jacobi
"The Case of the Double Husband", by Margery Lawrence
"Innsmouth Clay", by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
"The Conch Shell", by Brian Lumley
"Rising With Surtsey", by Brian Lumley
"Company in the Orchard", by Francis May
"'Beyondaril'", by John Metcalfe
"The Manterfield Inheritance", by Charles Partington
"The Storm King", by Emil Petaja
"The Elevator", by James Wade
"Appointment with Fire", by H. Russell Wakefield
"The Rings of the Papaloi", by Donald J. Walsh, Jr.
"Requiem for Earth", by Donald Wandrei

References

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 99–100. 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. 48.
Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 124–125. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 113–114. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

Works of August Derleth

Solar Pons	In Re: Sherlock Holmes 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 Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror and Lovecraft Mythos	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 Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow

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

Anthology	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

With H.P. Lovecraft	The Lurker at the Threshold

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Dark Things

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