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Dreams and Fancies
Dust-jacket illustration by Richard Taylor for Dreams and FanciesAuthor(s) H. P. Lovecraft Cover artist Richard Taylor Country United States Language English Genre(s) Fantasy, Horror, Science fiction short stories, letters Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1962 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages x, 174 pp ISBN NA Dreams and Fancies is a collection of letters and fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1962 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,030 copies and was the sixth collection of Lovecraft's work to be released by Arkham House. The concept of the collection was to present letters by Lovecraft recounting dreams, and the stories which may have derived from those dreams.
Contents
Dreams and Fancies contains the following tales:
- "Introduction", by August Derleth
- "Dreams and Fancies" (letters to: Reinhart Kleiner, Maurice W. Moe, Alfred Galpin, Bernard Austin Dwyer, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, Duane W. Rimel, R.H. Barlow, William Lumley, Willis Connover, Jr. and Virgil Finlay)
- "Memory"
- "The Statement of Randolph Carter"
- "Celephais"
- "The Doom That Came to Sarnath"
- "Nyarlathotep"
- "The Evil Clergyman"
- "The Thing in the Moonlight"
- "The Shadow Out of Time"
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.. p. 61. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. p. 38.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 75–76. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. p. 84. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
Categories:- 1962 short story collections
- Short story collections by H. P. Lovecraft
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