Something Near

Something Near
Dust-jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne for Something Near
Author	August Derleth
Cover artist	Ronald Clyne
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	fantasy, horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1945
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	274 pp

Something Near is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1945 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House. 2,054 copies were printed. The collection has never been reprinted.^[1]

Most of the stories had appeared earlier in the magazine Weird Tales.

Something Near contains the following tales:

"A Thin Gentleman with Gloves"
"Mr. Ames' Devil"
"A Wig for Miss Devore"
"Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind"
"Pacific 421"
"Headlines for Tod Shayne"
"No Light for Uncle Henry"
"Lansing's Luxury"
"Carousel"
"Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square"
"Here, Daemos!"
"McElwin's Glass"
"An Elegy for Mr. Danielson"
"The Satin Mask"
"Motive"
"The Metronome"
"The Inverness Cape"
"The Thing That Walked on the Wind"
"Ithaqua"
"Beyond the Threshold"
"The Dweller in Darkness"

Reception

E. F. Bleiler found the collection to be "Mostly routine work".^[2] Francis T. Laney recommended Something Near as "a worthy, if not outstanding, addition to the Arkham series", saying that "Derleth is a thoroughly competent craftsman, and his better efforts in the genre are well deserving of hard covers".^[3]

References

↑ Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 30. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
↑ E. F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Kent State University Press, 1983 (p.150)
↑ "Banquets for Bookworms", The Acolyte, Summer 1945 (#11), p.28

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 10–11. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 28.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 54. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

Works of August Derleth

Solar Pons	In Re: Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Solar Pons Three Problems for Solar Pons The Return of Solar Pons The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons A Praed Street Dossier The Chronicles of Solar Pons The Solar Pons Omnibus The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror	Someone in the Dark Something Near Not Long for this World The Survivor and Others The Mask of Cthulhu Lonesome Places The Trail of Cthulhu Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People The Watchers Out of Time and Others Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H.P. Lovecraft)

Science Fiction	Harrigan's File

Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"

Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders

Anthologies edited by	Sleep No More (editor) Who Knocks? The Night Side The Sleeping and the Dead Strange Ports of Call The Other Side of the Moon Beyond Time and Space Far Boundaries The Outer Reaches Beachheads in Space Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Worlds of Tomorrow Portals of Tomorrow Time to Come Dark Mind, Dark Heart New Worlds for Old The Sleeping and the Dead The Time of Infinity The Unquiet Grave When Evil Wakes From Other Worlds Over the Edge Travellers by Night Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Dark Things New Horizons

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Something Near

Contents

Reception

References