Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People is a collection of stories by authors August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

 and Mark Schorer

Mark Schorer

Mark Schorer was an American writer, critic, and scholar born in Sauk City, Wisconsin.-Biography:Schorer earned an MA at Harvard and his Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1936...

 writing in collaboration. It was released in 1966

1966 in literature

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  by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

 in an edition of 2,405 copies. The stories were written while the two authors shared a cabin on the Wisconsin River

Wisconsin River

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 in Sauk City during the summer of 1931. Most of the stories were published in the magazine Weird Tales

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

. Several of the tales were adapted for the Thriller

Thriller (US TV series)

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television series.

Contents

Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People contains the following tales:

1. "In the Left Wing"
2. "Spawn of the Maelstrom"
3. "The Carven Image"
4. "The Pacer"
5. "The Lair of the Star-Spawn"
6. "Colonel Markesan"
7. "The Return of Andrew Bentley"
8. "The Woman at Loon Point"
9. "Death Holds the Post"
10. "Laughter in the Night"
11. "The Vengeance of Aï"
12. "Red Hands"
13. "They Shall Rise"
14. "Eyes of the Serpent"
15. "The Horror from the Depths"
16. "The Occupant of the Crypt"
17. "The House in the Magnolias"