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Title: Roads Title Record # 65371
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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Year Title
1938 ... Roads
Year Language Title
1979 French Routes
1981Translated by Lore Straßl and Hugh Walker under his legal name Hubert Straßl.
German
Straßen?Strassen

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
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.
chap  
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 Checkmark
... 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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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.
anth Checkmark
... 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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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.
anth  
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