Night's Black Agents
Dust Jacket Illustration by Ronald Clyne for Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber
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| Author | Fritz Leiber |
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| Cover artist | Ronald Clyne |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | fantasy, horror short stories |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
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1947 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | x, 237 pp |
Night's Black Agents is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Fritz Leiber. It was released in 1947 and was the author's first book. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 3,084 copies.
Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Unknown and Weird Tales. Three were first published in this book.
The book's title is taken from Macbeth, Act III, scene ii.
Later editions added additional material under the same title. The Berkley (1978) reprint adds two stories "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" and "A Bit of the Dark World". The definitive version is the Gregg Press (1980) hardcover which adds a Foreword by Richard Gid Powers to the complete contents of the Berkley edition and is thus an expansion of the original Arkham House edition.
Night's Black Agents contains the following tales:
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