Not Long for this World

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Not Long for this World
Jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne.
Author	August Derleth
Cover artist	Ronald Clyne
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1948
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	x, 221

Not Long for this World is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1948 and was the author's third collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,067 copies.

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

Not Long for this World contains the following tales:

"Foreword"
"The Shadow on the Sky"
"Birkett's Twelfth Corpse"
"The White Moth"
"Nellie Foster"
"Wild Grapes"
"Feigman's Beard"
"The Drifting Snow"
"The Return of Sarah Purcell"
"Logoda's Heads"
"The Second Print"
"Mrs. Elting Does Her Part"
"A Little Knowledge"
"Mrs. Bentley's Daughter"
"Those Who Seek"
"Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream"
"The Tenant"
"The Lilac Bush"
"'Just a Song at Twilight'"
"A Matter of Sight"
"Prince Borgia's Mass"
"A Dinner at Imola"
"Lesandro's Familiar"
"The Bridge of Sighs"
"A Cloak from Messr. Lando"
"He Shall Come"
"Mrs. Lannisfree"
"After You, Mr. Henderson"
"Baynter's Imp"
"The Lost Day"
"A Collector of Stones"
"The God-Box"
"Saunder's Little Friend"

Sources

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 34=35. 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. 32.
Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 50. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

v t e Works of August Derleth
Solar Pons	"In Re: Sherlock Holmes" – The Adventures of Solar Pons 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 (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft) 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 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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