Title: Roads
Title Record # 65371
Author: Seabury Quinn
Date: 1938-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Current Tags: fantasy (1), historical fantasy (1), judea (1) Add Tags
Author: Seabury Quinn
Date: 1938-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: A Christmas Trilogy which appeared in "Weird Tales" in January of 1938.Editor, Sam Moskowitz portrays the "saga" as "the greatest adult Christmas story written by an American." The story is centered around a Norseman named Klaus, who finds himself in the service of Herod.As "Claudius" in"The Road to Bethlehem," he defends a poor Jewish family from attack by the soldiers of Rome, saving the life of a remarkable infant.
In "The Road to Calvary," he meets this infant become a remarkable man.Klaus / Claudius is in the service of one Pontius Pilate.He is given the duty of placing a scroll "over the young Prophet's head."
"The Long Road Home" relates his years of wandering through Europe after the fall of Rome and the strange fate he finds as his reward.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Roads | 1938-00-00 | Seabury Quinn | Conrad H. Ruppert | 47 | ph?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications. |
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Weird Tales, January 1938 | 1938-01-00 | ed. Farnsworth Wright | Popular Fiction Publishing Co. | $0.25?$: US dollar |
132 | pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75 |
mag | M. Brundage | ||
... Roads | 1948-00-00 | Seabury Quinn | Arkham House | $2.00?$: US dollar |
110 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Virgil Finlay | ||
Worlds of Weird | 1965-01-00 | ed. Leo Margulies | Pyramid Books | R-1125 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
158 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Virgil Finlay | |
Worlds of Weird | 1977-04-00 | ed. Leo Margulies | Pyramid Books | V4471 | $1.25?$: US dollar |
158 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Virgil Finlay | |
Worlds of Weird | 1978-09-00 | ed. Leo Margulies | Jove / HBJ | 0-515-04826-7 / A4826 | $1.50?$: US dollar |
158 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Margaret Brundage | |
Les meilleurs récits de Weird Tales: Tome III: (1938-1942) | 1979-02-20 | ed. Jacques Sadoul | J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #923) | 2-277-11923-7 | 219 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Virgil Finlay , Hannes Bok , Margaret Brundage | ||
Der verzauberte Kreuzzug | 1981-11-00 | ed. Hugh Walker | Pabel (Terra Fantasy #91) | TF91 | DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
241 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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... Roads | 2005-06-00 | Seabury Quinn | Red Jacket Press | 0-9748895-8-X | $29.95?$: US dollar |
110 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Virgil Finlay | |
A Cosmic Christmas | 2012-11-06 | ed. Hank Davis | Baen | 978-1-4516-3862-2 | $12.00?$: US dollar |
312 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Bob Eggleton | |
Roads | 2017-12-01 | Seabury Quinn | Shadowridge Press | 978-1-946808-99-8 | $12.99?$: US dollar |
88 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
chap | Virgil Finlay | |
Weird Tales (disc 4, part 2) | 2019-00-00 | ed. uncredited | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
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Reviews
- Review by Arthur F. Hillman (1949) in Fantasy Review, April-May 1949
- Review by Frederik Pohl (1949) in Super Science Stories, July 1949
- Review by Sam Moskowitz (1950) in Fantastic Novels Magazine, May 1950
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)
- Review by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock (1988) in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books , reprinted in:
- Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1988)
- Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1988)
- Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1991)
- Review by Charles de Lint (2006) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2006