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{{Short description|1985 collection of short stories by Darrell Schweitzer}}
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| caption       = Cover of ''Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out<BR>and Other Strange Excursions''
| author        = [[Darrell Schweitzer]]
| illustrator   = [[Stephen Fabian|Stephen E. Fabian]]
| cover_artist  = [[Stephen Fabian|Stephen E. Fabian]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| genre         = [[Fantasy fiction|Fantasy]]
| publisher     = [[W. Paul Ganley]]
| release_date  = 1985
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| media_type    = Print (hardcover)
| pages         = 191  p
| isbn          = 0-932445-15-2
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| oclc= 13335003
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'''''Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions''''' is a collection of [[dark fantasy]] [[short stories]] by American writer [[Darrell Schweitzer]]. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by [[W. Paul Ganley]] in November 1985.<ref name="ISFDb1">{{isfdb title|id=1000492|title=Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions}}</ref> An electronic edition was published by Necon E-Books in December 2012 as no. 20 of its Necon Classic Horror series. The copyright statement of the Necon edition states that it "incorporates the author's final revisions and should be regarded as definitive."
==Summary==
The collection consists of nineteen early works of the author; three tales about legendary madman [[Tom o' Bedlam|Tom O'Bedlam]] followed by two in the far future setting of his novel ''[[The Shattered Goddess]]'' and collection ''[[Echoes of the Goddess]]'' and thirteen other stories (one a collaboration with [[John Gregory Betancourt]]) and a poem. Most of the pieces were originally published from 1973-1985 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies; the remainder are original to the collection.
==Contents==
* "Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out" (from ''[[Fantastic (magazine)|Fantastic]]'' v. 26, no. 3, September 1977)
* "Raving Lunacy" (from ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' v. 55, no. 2, July 1981)
* "Continued Lunacy" (from ''[[Amazing Stories|Amazing Science Fiction]]'' v. 56, no. 5, March 1983)
* "The Story of a Dadar" (from ''[[Amazing Stories|Amazing Science Fiction Stories]]'' v. 56, no. 1, June 1982)
* "A Lantern Maker of Ai Hanlo" (from ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' v. 58, no. 2, July 1984)
* "The Story of Obbok" (from ''Whispers'' no. 2, December 1973)
* "The Outcast" [poem] (from ''Eerie Country'' no. 4, 1980)
* "The Pretenses of Hinyar" (from ''Amra'' v. 2, no. 69, January 1981)
* "The Story of the Brown Man" (from ''Fantasy Crosswinds'' no. 1, January 1977)
* "The Last of the Shadow Titans" (from ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' v. 59, no. 2, July 1985)
* "The Stranger from Baal-Ad-Theon"
* "The Bermuda Triangle Explained"
* "The Adventure in the House of Phaon"
* "The Last Child of Masferigon" (with [[John Gregory Betancourt]])
* "A Vision of Rembathene" (from ''Fantasy Crossroads'' no. 10/11, March 1977)
* "Jungle Eyes" (from ''[[Twilight Zone literature#Magazines|Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine]]'' v. 5, no. 2, May/June 1985)
* "Sunrise" (from ''Pulpsmith'', Winter 1983)
* "The Game of Sand and Fire" (revised from "A Part of the Game" from ''[[Dragon (magazine)|The Dragon]]'' no. 51, 1981)
* "The Wings of the White Bird" (from ''Myrddin'' no. 4, 1978)
==Reception==
The collection was reviewed by William F. Touponce in ''Fantasy Review'', June 1986, Neal Wilgus in ''Science Fiction Review'', Winter 1986, John Gregory Betancourt in ''Fantasy Book'', March 1987, and Stefan Dziemianowicz in ''[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]'' no. 48, St. John's Eve 1987.<ref name="ISFDb1"/>
==References==
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[[Category:Fantasy short story collections]]