Half in Shadow
 Dust-jacket illustration by Tim Kirk for Half in Shadow | |
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Counselman |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | frontispiece by Tim Kirk |
| Cover artist | Tim Kirk |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, Horror short stories |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1978 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | ix, 212 pp |
| ISBN | 0-87054-081-5 |
| OCLC | 4166637 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.C862 Hal PS3553.O85 |
Half in Shadow is a collection of stories by author Mary Elizabeth Counselman. It had first been published as a fourteen story collection (six stories not in the later Arkham House edition) as a Consul paperback by World Distributors, UK, in 1964. It was released in 1978 by Arkham House with fourteen stories (six not in the earlier UK edition) and was the author's first hardcover book. It was published in an edition of 4,288 copies. Most of the stories had appeared previously in the magazine Weird Tales. The jacket and frontispiece are by Tim Kirk. There has also been a reprint - London: William Kimber, 1980.
Contents
Half in Shadow contains the following tales:
- "Preface"
- "The Three Marked Pennies"
- "The Unwanted"
- "The Shot-Tower Ghost"
- "Night Court"
- "The Monkey Spoons"
- "The Smiling Face"
- "A Death Crown for Mr. Hapworthy"
- "The Black Stone Statue"
- "Seventh Sister"
- "Parasite Mansion"
- "The Green Window"
- "The Tree's Wife"
- "Twister"
- "A Handful of Silver"
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 120. 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. 53.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 143–144. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 124–125. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
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