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Taverns of the Dead

Kealan Patrick Burke

First published 2005
Publisher Cemetery Dance Publications
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Alan M. Clark
Pages 423
Price $40.00
ISBN 1587670828

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "Trade Edition: $40 Trade Hardcover ISBN: 1-58767-082-8" on front dust jacket flap
  • According to the publisher's website, there were two other editions: a limited edition of 400 signed and slipcased copies ($150) and a traycased edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker ($400).
  • "First Edition" on copyright page
  • Only date is 2005 on title page and copyright page
  • Source of month from Locus1
  • First printing per number line
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page & rear dust jacket flap
  • Cover design has conflicting credits: Dust jacket design is credited to Gail Cross on copyright page Cover design is credited to Alan M. Clark on rear dust jacket flap Dust jacket design is credited to Desert Isle Design on rear dust jacket flap
  • Each story is preceded, on story title page, with an introduction to author & story

Searching by ISBN: 1587670828

Page Title Author(s) Type
13 Introduction: Step Up to the Rail, My Friends F. Paul Wilson Essay
17 Foreword: Purveyors of Fine Spirits Since... Kealan Patrick Burke Essay
21 The Lingering Scent of Apples P. D. Cacek Short Story
41 The Winner Ramsey Campbell Short Story
55 The Souls of Drowning Mountain Jack Cady Short Story
69 Kristine's Kwiet Korner Melanie Tem Short Story
79 Shoggoth's Old Peculiar Neil Gaiman Short Story
89 Gas Station Carnivals Thomas Ligotti Short Story
105 Bucket of Blood Norman Partridge Short Story
121 The King of Rotten Wood Gary A. Braunbeck Short Story
147 Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told Peter Crowther Novelette
175 Dés Lors Roberta Lannes Short Story
189 At Home in the Pubs of Old London Christopher Fowler Short Story
201 Spirited Steve Rasnic Tem Short Story
207 Times of Atonement Yvonne Navarro Short Story
221 That Was Radio Clash Charles de Lint Novelette
239 Friday Night at the Wicked Swan Charles L. Grant Short Story
251 Bar Talk Peter Straub Short Story
255 Time Was David Morrell Novelette
281 Shades of the Past (The Traveling Salesman Goes Home) C. Bruce Hunter Short Story
291 Luke, Homeward Angel Chaz Brenchley Short Story
307 The Last Good Times Tim Lebbon Short Story
321 Two in the Eyes Tom Piccirilli Short Story
335 Welcome to the Masque Jeff VanderMeer Short Story
345 The Order of Nature Edward Lee Short Story
357 A Fine and Private Place Thomas F. Monteleone Short Story
377 The Family Room Nicholas Royle Short Story
383 The Smoke in Mooney's Pub Chet Williamson Short Story
399 The Snug Terry Lamsley Short Story