Reunion at Dawn and Other Uncollected Ghost Stories

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When H. R. Wakefield's STRAYERS FROM SHEOL was published by Arkham House in 1961, it was fully intended that a further collection of the author's supernatural tales would follow within a few years; subsequent appearances of Wakefield's stories in Arkham House anthologies referred to this final volume. Unfortunately, no further Wakefield titles were issued by Arkham House, and it was widely assumed that any unpublished stories by the author had been destroyed by him prior to his death in 1964. Recently, however, Arkham House Editor Peter Ruber uncovered a cache of previously unknown Wakefield stories, most of them in the long neglected files of August Derleth. These seventeen tales by one of the twentieth century's masters of the supernatural are now being published for the first time, bringing to an exciting conclusion Ash-Tree Press's series reprinting Wakefield's supernatural stories. The supernatural tales in REUNION AT DAWN range from the gentle to the horrific . We meet - for the final time - the recurring characters of Dr Landon and Anstruther Sawbridge, Bart. ; encounter two variations on the same theme ; and, unusually for Wakefield, venture into the past for a historical ghost story . In these seventeen stories, H. R. Wakefield once more triumphantly proves himself to be a master of the weird tale.