- Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
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Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
Dust-jacket illustration by Smith-Wollin Studios and Frank Utpatel for Dark of the MoonAuthor(s) edited by August Derleth Cover artist Smith-Wollin Studios and Frank Utpatel Country United States Language English Genre(s) fantasy, horror, poetry Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1947 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages xvi, 418 pp ISBN NA OCLC Number 1298843 Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre is a poetry anthology edited by August Derleth and published in 1947 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,634 copies[1]. It is a pioneering[2] anthology of weird poetry from the Middle Ages to the present, arranged chonologically[3].
Contents
Poets included in Dark of the Moon
- William Blake
- Robert Burns
- James Hogg
- Sir Walter Scott
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Thomas Moore
- Richard Harris Barham
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Keats
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Rabbi Ben Levi
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- William Bell Scott
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu
- Charles Kingsley
- Sidney Thompson Dobell
- William Allingham
- Charles Godfrey Leland
- Fitz-James O'Brien
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- James Thompson[disambiguation needed ]
- William Morris
- Richard Garnett
- Robert Buchanan[disambiguation needed ]
- Christina Rossetti
- A.P. Graves
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Lizette Woodworth Reese
- A. E. Housman
- José Asunción Silva
- Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Arthur Guiterman
- Walter de la Mare
- Amy Lowell
- Robert Frost
- Josephine Daskam Bacon
- Joyce Kilmer
- William Rose Benet
- Vincent Starrett
- Roy Helton
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Robert P. Tristam Coffin
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Timeus Gaylord
- Mark Van Doren
- Arthur Inman
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- Frank Belknap Long
- Yetza Gillespie
- Francis Flagg
- Dorothy Quick
- Robert E. Howard
- Donald Wandrei
- August Derleth
- Anthony Boucher
- Byron Herbert Reece
- Duane W. Rimel
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman
- Leah Bodine Drake
- Harvey Wagner Flink
- Coleman Rosenberger
Publication history
- 1947, USA, Arkham House OCLC 1298843, Pub date 1947, Hardback
- 1969, USA, Books for Libraries Press ISBN 0836960564, Pub date 1969
- 1976, USA, Granger OCLC 2565352, Pub date 1976
Notes
- ^ Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, Inc.. p. 24. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- ^ Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House. p. 42. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- ^ Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. p. 63. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, Inc.. pp. 24–25. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, Maryland and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 30–31.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House. pp. 38–42. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 61–63. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
Categories:- 1947 books
- Poetry anthologies
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