''Half in Shadow'' is a collection of stories by author
Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Mary Elizabeth Counselman (November 19, 1911 – November 13, 1995) was an American writer of short stories and poetry.
Biography
Mary Elizabeth Counselman was born on November 19, 1911, in Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing poetry as a ...
. Most of the stories had macabre or horror themes, and appeared previously in the magazine ''
Weird Tales
''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, prin ...
'' from the late 1930s through the 1950s. It includes the story "The Three Marked Pennies" one of the most popular in the magazine's history based on reader response.
The book had first been published as a fourteen story collection (six stories not in the later Arkham House edition) as a Consul paperback by World Distributors, UK, in 1964. It was released in
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
by
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...
with fourteen stories (six not in the earlier UK edition) and was the author's first hardcover book. It was published in an edition of 4,288 copies. The jacket and frontispiece are by
Tim Kirk
Tim Kirk is both a professional artist and an American fan artist. He worked as a senior designer at Tokyo DisneySea, as an Imagineer for the Walt Disney company. He began his professional art career during the mid-1970s as an illustrator at ...
. There has also been a reprint - London: William Kimber, 1980.
Contents
''Half in Shadow'' contains the following tales:
# "Preface"
# "The Three Marked Pennies"
# "The Unwanted"
# "The Shot-Tower Ghost"
# "Night Court"
# "The Monkey Spoons"
# "The Smiling Face"
# "A Death Crown for Mr. Hapworthy"
# "The Black Stone Statue"
# "Seventh Sister"
# "Parasite Mansion"
# "The Green Window"
# "The Tree's Wife"
# "Twister"
# "A Handful of Silver"
References
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*{{cite book , last=Nielsen , first=Leon , title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide , location=Jefferson, NC and London , publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., pages=124–125 , year=2004 , isbn=0-7864-1785-4
1978 short story collections
Fantasy short story collections
Horror short story collections
Arkham House books