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Not Long for this World is a collection of fantasy and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

short stories

Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

by author 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...

. It was released in 1948

1948 in literature

The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....

and was the author's third collection published 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...

. It was released in an edition of 2,067 copies.

Most of the stories had originally appeared 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....

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Not Long for this World contains the following tales:

"Foreword"
"The Shadow on the Sky"
"Birkett's Twelfth Corpse"
"The White Moth"
"Nellie Foster"
"Wild Grapes"
"Feigman's Beard"
"The Drifting Snow"
"The Return of Sarah Purcell"
"Logoda's Heads"
"The Second Print"
"Mrs. Elting Does Her Part"
"A Little Knowledge"
"Mrs. Bentley's Daughter"
"Those Who Seek"
"Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream"
"The Tenant"
"The Lilac Bush"
"'Just a Song at Twilight'"
"A Matter of Sight"
"Prince Borgia's Mass"
"A Dinner at Imola"
"Lesandro's Familiar"
"The Bridge of Sighs"
"A Cloak from Messr. Lando"
"He Shall Come"
"Mrs. Lannisfree"
"After You, Mr. Henderson"
"Baynter's Imp"
"The Lost Day"
"A Collector of Stones"
"The God-Box"
"Saunder's Little Friend"

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