Half in Shadow is a collection of stories by author Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Mary Elizabeth Counselman was an American writer of short stories and poetry.- Biography :Mary Elizabeth Counselman was born on November 19, 1911 in Birmingham, AL and began writing poetry as a child. She later moved to Gainesville, Georgia where her father was a faculty member at the Riverside...

. 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

1978 in literature

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 by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. 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

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

. The jacket and frontispiece are by Tim Kirk

Tim Kirk

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. There has also been a reprint - London: William Kimber, 1980.

Contents

Half in Shadow contains the following tales:

1. "Preface"
2. "The Three Marked Pennies"
3. "The Unwanted"
4. "The Shot-Tower Ghost"
5. "Night Court"
6. "The Monkey Spoons"
7. "The Smiling Face"
8. "A Death Crown for Mr. Hapworthy"
9. "The Black Stone Statue"
10. "Seventh Sister"
11. "Parasite Mansion"
12. "The Green Window"
13. "The Tree's Wife"
14. "Twister"
15. "A Handful of Silver"