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| Author | Roger Zelazny |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Gahan Wilson |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | William Morrow and Company |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 0-688-12508-5 |
| OCLC | 27640649 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3576.E43 N5 1993 |
A Night in the Lonesome October is a novel by American writer Roger Zelazny published in 1993, near the end of his life. It was his last book, and one of his five personal favorites.[1]
The book is divided into 32 chapters, each representing one "night" in the month of October (plus one "introductory" chapter). The story is told in the first-person, akin to journal entries. Throughout, 33 full-page illustrations by Gahan Wilson (one per chapter, plus one on the inside back cover) punctuate a tale heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft. The title is a line from Edgar Allan Poe's "Ulalume" and Zelazny thanks him as well as others – Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch and Albert Payson Terhune – whose most famous characters appear in the book.
A Night in the Lonesome October was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994.[2] A similar theme of conflict surrounding the opening of a gate to another world exists in Zelazny's 1981 novel Madwand.
- ^ "Archived copy". zelazny.corrupt.net. Archived from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "1994 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-27.