Roads (novel)


Roads is a short novel by author Seabury Quinn. It was published by Arkham House in 1948 in an edition of 2,137 copies. It was Arkham House's first illustrated book and the author's first 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:
Roads was reissued in 2005 by Red Jacket Press, as a fully authorized facsimile reproduction of the original Arkham House edition, and again by Shadowridge Press in 2017.