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Russell Kirk


There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding

Russell Kirk

WFA winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Frights (1976), edited by Kirby McCauley. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI (1978) edited by Gerald W. Page, The World Fantasy Awards, Volume Two (1980), edited by Stuart David Schiff and Fritz Leiber, and The Dark Descent: The Evolution of Horror (1987), edited by David G. Hartwell. It is included in the collections The Princess of All Lands (1979) and Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology Of Ghostly Tales (2004).

Watchers at the Strait Gate

Russell Kirk

Table of Contents:

  • A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale - (1962) - essay
  • The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost - (1983) - novelette
  • The Surly Sullen Bell - (1950) - short story
  • The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion - (1980) - novelette
  • Uncle Isaiah - (1951) - short story
  • The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close - (1983) - novelette
  • What Shadows We Pursue - (1953) - short story
  • Lex Talionis - (1979) - novelette
  • Fate's Purse - (1979) - novelette
  • An Encounter by Mortstone Pond - (1984) - short story
  • Watchers at the Strait Gate - (1980) - novelette

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