Dwellers in Darkness is a collection of stories 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 1976

1976 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 3,926 copies. It was the author's eighth collection of stories published by Arkham House. Two stories from Derleth's Judge Peck series are included in the collection. Also included is "Ghost Lake", the last story completed by Derleth before he died in 1971.

Contents

Dwellers in Darkness contains the following tales:

1. "The Ghost Walk"
2. "The Ormolu Clock"
3. "A Knocking in the Wall"
4. "The Lost Path"
5. "The Place of Desolation"
6. "The Patchwork Quilt"
7. "The Island Out of Space"
8. "The Night Road"
9. "Come to Me"
10. "Memoir for Lucas Payne"
11. "The Passing of Eric Holm"
12. "Man in the Dark"
13. "The Song of the Peewee"
14. "Open, Sesame!"
15. "Ghost Lake"
16. "The Element of Chance"
17. "Fool Proof"