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Witch House is a novel by author Evangeline Walton. It was published in 1945 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,000 copies.3,000 according to Witch House, by Evangeline Walton, Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945, p. 201 of 200. It was the Read More..

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Description	Witch House is a novel by author Evangeline Walton. It was published in 1945 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,000 copies.3,000 according to Witch House, by Evangeline Walton, Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945, p. 201 of 200. It was the first full-length novel to be published by Arkham House and was listed as the initial book in the Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror. An expanded version, with a newly-written 20,000-word prologue, was published in England in 1950. In 2013, Centipede Press issued the first American edition of this revised version, also including previously unpublished writings by Walton and several of her short stories. F&SF Interview, Douglas A. Anderson Centipede Press announcementAccording to Robert Weinberg, the volume was Arkham House's greatest flop - an excellent novel that took nearly two decades to go out of print.Robert Weinberg "Science Fiction Specialty Publishers" in Science Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural and Weird Tales (Haworth Press, 1983), p. 129E. F. Bleiler described the novel as a "Neo-Gothic thriller. . . . [marked by] imaginative writing, a good climax, but a prolonged, dull first section and characterizations that do not click."E. F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Kent State University Press, 1983 (pp. 512-13) The Encyclopedia of Fantasy found it to be "an atmospheric Haunted-Dwelling tale". Encyclopedia of Fantasy
Description	Witch House is a novel by author Evangeline Walton. It was published in 1945 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,000 copies.3,000 according to Witch House, by Evangeline Walton, Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945, p. 201 of 200. It was the first full-length novel to be published by Arkham House and was listed as the initial book in the Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror. An expanded version, with a newly-written 20,000-word prologue, was published in England in 1950. In 2013, Centipede Press issued the first American edition of this revised version, also including previously unpublished writings by Walton and several of her short stories. F&SF Interview, Douglas A. Anderson Centipede Press announcementAccording to Robert Weinberg, the volume was Arkham House's greatest flop - an excellent novel that took nearly two decades to go out of print.Robert Weinberg "Science Fiction Specialty Publishers" in Science Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural and Weird Tales (Haworth Press, 1983), p. 129E. F. Bleiler described the novel as a "Neo-Gothic thriller. . . . [marked by] imaginative writing, a good climax, but a prolonged, dull first section and characterizations that do not click."E. F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Kent State University Press, 1983 (pp. 512-13) The Encyclopedia of Fantasy found it to be "an atmospheric Haunted-Dwelling tale". Encyclopedia of Fantasy

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Name	Witch House
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Authors	Evangeline Walton
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Genre	Fantasy , Horror novel
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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