Roads

Author: Seabury Quinn.
Illustrator: Virgil Finlay.
Publisher: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box (BSDB).
Date: 2009 (?).
Binding: Hardcover (Black Cloth).
Number of pages: 60 pages.
Original Price: $25.00.
ISBN: 1-55246-338-5.


Front of Hardcover

The story, in an unrevised edition, originally appeared in the January 1938 issue of Weird Tales magazine.

Roads is a Christmas story that traces the origins of Santa Claus from the beginning of the Christian era. The story is split into three parts:

Other editions:
Roads published by Arkham House.
Roads published by Red Jacket Press.

The difference between the drawing in Weird Tales and the drawings in the book, as well as a preliminary sketch of the cover illustration is discussed on a separate page.

References:
Web site of The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.