Over the Edge (anthology)

Over the Edge
Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Over the Edge
Author	edited by August Derleth
Cover artist	Frank Utpatel
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	vi, 297 pp

Over the Edge is an anthology of horror stories edited by August Derleth. It was released in 1964 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,520 copies. The anthology was produced to mark the 25th anniversary of Arkham House. None of the stories had been previously published.

Over the Edge contains the following tales:

"Foreword", by August Derleth
"The Crew of the Lancing", by William Hope Hodgson
"The Last Meeting of Two Old Friends", by H. Russell Wakefield
"The Shadow in the Attic", by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
"The Renegade", by John Metcalfe
"Told in the Desert", by Clark Ashton Smith
"When the Rains Came", by Frank Belknap Long
"The Blue Flame of Vengeance", by Robert E. Howard & John Pocsik
"Crabgrass", by Jesse Stuart
"Kincaid's Car", by Carl Jacobi
"The Patchwork Quilt", by August Derleth
"The Black Gondolier", by Fritz Leiber
"The Old Lady's Room", by J. Vernon Shea
"The North Knoll", by Joseph Payne Brennan
"The Huaco of Señor Perez", by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
"Mr. Alucard", by David A. Johnstone
"Casting the Stone", by John Pocsik
"Aneanoshian", by Michael Bailey
"The Stone on the Island", by J. Ramsey Campbell

Reprints

London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.
London: Arrow, 1976.

References

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 73. 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. 41.
Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 85. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 91. 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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Over the Edge (anthology)

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