Night's Yawning Peal
Edited by August Derleth.
A Terrifying Treat for those who like to have their blood run cold!
Here is the master spell-weaver of them all, H.P. Lovecraft, with an unforgettable novel set in the shadowland of madness and demonic possession.
Here is infinite evil and the black arts as portrayed by Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, and other supremely chilling storytellers.
So turn on your reading light. Listen to the wind howling outside. And plunge into the dark depths of the most spine-tingling eerie imaginations of our time.
August Derleth
August William Derleth (1909–1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a prolific writer in several genres, including regional writings, historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction,science fiction, and biography.
August Derleth, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1938, considered his most serious work to be his ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth was a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing.
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