A Night in the Lonesome October

A Night in the Lonesome October is a Cthulhu Mythos novel by the late American author Roger Zelazny. First published by AvoNova/William Morrow in August 1993, was the last book published before Zelazny's death in 1995, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994.
==Overview==
A delightful panache of archetypical characters from the realm of classic horror and suspense (Jack the Ripper, Dracula, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes along with assorted witches, clergy, druids, mad monks, Hermetic occultists and their animal familIars (most of the story being told thru the eyes of Jack's demon-dog Snuff) of a month spent to open or defend the world from the coming of the Chthonian Old Ones. In the interim, we get a trip to Ulthar, (with a cat for a guide no less). No particularly unique insights to the mythos, but generally a lot of fun.
==Publication History==
Since its first printing, A Night in the Lonesome October has been reissued numerous times, including by The Easton Press (1993), Orbit (1994), J'ai Lu (1995, French-language edition), Avon/HarperCollins (2007), Chicago Review Press (2014), Farrago (2016), and Edizioni Hypnos (2020, Italian-language edition).
Category:Novels
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Roger Zelazny works