​The Opener of the Way
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​First Published: 1945
Publisher: Arkham House
​Format: Hardcover    
Bloch: “He [August Derleth] innovated the policy of publishing volumes of short stories by other writers, starting with himself, then Weird Tales contributors Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith and Henry S. Whitehead. Now it was my turn. He suggested I go over the one hundred-plus published stories and select a score for collection. It wasn’t easy for me to find twenty titles I felt would bear reprint in a genuine hardcover book which might be sold in real bookstores to actual customers. In the end I wrote an additional story—"One Way to Mars."

​Contents:
  • The Cloak (1939)
  • Beetles (1938)
  • The Fiddler's Fee (1940)
  • The Mannikin (1937)
  • The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton (1939)
  • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1943)
  • The Seal of the Satyr (1939; as Tarleton Fiske)
  • The Dark Demon (1936)
  • The Faceless God (1936)
  • House of the Hatchet (1941)
  • The Opener of the Way (1936)
  • Return to the Sabbath (1938)
  • The Mandarin's Canaries (1938)
  • Waxworks (1939)
  • The Feast in the Abbey (1935)
  • Slave of the Flames (1938)
  • The Shambler from the Stars (1935)
  • Mother of Serpents (1936)
  • The Secret of Sebek (1937)
  • The Eyes of the Mummy (1938)
  • One Way to Mars (1945)