Quotes from book
A Night in the Lonesome October

Name: A Night in the Lonesome October
Author: Roger Zelazny

A Night in the Lonesome October is a novel by American writer Roger Zelazny published in 1993, near the end of his life. It was his last book, and one of his five personal favorites.The book is divided in 32 chapters, each representing one "night" in the month of October . The story is told in the first-person, akin to journal entries. Throughout, 33 full-page illustrations by Gahan Wilson punctuate a tale heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft. The title is a line from Edgar Allan Poe's "Ulalume" and Zelazny thanks him as well as others – Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch and Albert Payson Terhune – whose most famous characters appear in the book.

“It is a city of neat cottages and cobbled streets where wander cats without number, for the enlightened legislators of long ago laid down laws for our protection. A good, kind village, where travelers take their ease and pet the cats, making much of them, which is as it should be.”

Roger Zelazny book A Night in the Lonesome October

October 22 (p. 160)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

“Never trust a cat, anyway. All they’re good for is stringing tennis racquets.”

Roger Zelazny book A Night in the Lonesome October

October 6 (p. 28)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

““Why do you tell me this?”
“Perhaps because I am a cat and it amuses me to be arbitrary and do you a good turn.””

Roger Zelazny book A Night in the Lonesome October

October 2 (p. 9)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

““When you talk about being an ‘anticipator,’ of having a pretty good idea of when something’s going to happen—or how, or who will be there—isn’t that a kind of divination?”
“No. I think it’s more a kind of subconscious knack for dealing with statistics, against a fairly well-known field of actions.””

Roger Zelazny book A Night in the Lonesome October

October 23 (p. 173)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)