''The Travelling Grave and Other Stories'' is a collection of
horror and
fantasy
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short stories
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by author
L. P. Hartley. It was released in
1948 and was the author's first American collection of fantastic tales. It was published 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 ...
in an edition of 2,047 copies.
Most of the stories had originally appeared in two British collections: ''Night Fears'' and ''The Killing Bottle and Other Stories''.
Contents
''The Travelling Grave and Other Stories'' contains the following tales:
# "A Visitor from Down Under"
# "Podolo"
# "Three, or Four, for Dinner"
# "The Travelling Grave"
# "Feet Foremost"
# "The Cotillon"
# "A Change of Ownership"
# "The Thought"
# "Conrad and the Dragon"
# "The Island"
# "Night Fears"
# "The Killing Bottle"
Reprints
*London: James Barrie, 1951.
*London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957.
References
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1948 short story collections
Fantasy short story collections
Horror short story collections
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