Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales

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Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales

Dust-jacket illustration by Stephen E. Fabian for Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales
Author Marjorie Bowen
Cover artist Stephen E. Fabian
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Horror, Fantasy short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date 1976
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xiii, 207 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-87054-077-7

Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales is a collection of stories by author Marjorie Bowen. It was released in 1976 and was the author's first collection of stories published in the U.S.. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 4,391 copies.

[edit] Contents

Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales contains the following stories:

  1. "Preface"
  2. "The Hidden Ape"
  3. "Kecksies"
  4. "Raw Material"
  5. "The Avenging of Ann Leete"
  6. "The Crown Derby Plate"
  7. "The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes"
  8. "Scoured Silk"
  9. "The Breakdown"
  10. "One Remained Behind"
  11. "The House by the Poppy Field"
  12. "Florence Flannery"
  13. "Half-Past Two"

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 117. 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., 52. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 141. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 123. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.