Death Stalks the Night

Death Stalks the Nightis a collection offantasy,horror,andmysteryshort storiesby American writerHugh B. Cave.It was originally to have been the fifth volume published byCarcosa,the North Carolina joint publishing venture founded byKarl Edward Wagner,Jim Groce andDavid Drake.However,Lee Brown Coye,who was completing the illustrations for the volume, died, stalling its publication by Carcosa.

Death Stalks the Night

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Hugh B. Cave
Illustrator	Lee Brown Coye
Cover artist	Alan M. Clark
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy,horrorandmystery
Publisher	Fedogan & Bremer
Publication date	1995
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xiii, 569
ISBN	1-878252-15-1
OCLC	33812266
Dewey Decimal	813/.52 20
LC Class	PS3505.A912 D43 1995

It was eventually released in1995,including the completed illustrations by Coye, throughFedogan & Bremerin an edition of 2,000 copies, of which 100 were signed by the author. The stories originally appeared in the magazinesDime Mystery Magazine,Terror Tales,Spicy-Adventure Stories,New Mystery Adventures,Super-Detective Stories,Spicy Mystery Stories,Horror Stories,Detective Short StoriesandStar Detective Magazine.

Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction, byKarl Edward Wagner
• "Modern Nero"
• "Death’s Loving Arms"
• "The Crawling Ones"
• "The Pain Room"
• "The Flame Fiend"
• "Unholy Night!"
• "Dark Slaughter"
• "The Corpse Crypt"
• "Mistress of the Dead"
• "Terror Island"
• "Satan’s Mistress"
• "Tomb for the Living"
• "Death Holds for Ransom"
• "My Pupil—The Idiot!"
• "Death Calls from the Madhouse"
• "Death’s Door"
• "Death Stalks the Night"

References

• Brown, Charles N.;William G. Contento."The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)".Retrieved2008-03-27.
• Chalker, Jack L.;Mark Owings (1998).The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998.Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 253–254.