- Dreams from R'lyeh
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Dreams from R'lyeh
Jacket illustration by Tim Kirk for Dreams from R'lyehAuthor(s) Lin Carter Cover artist Tim Kirk Country United States Language English Genre(s) poetry Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1975 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages xv, 72 pp ISBN ISBN 0-87054-067-X OCLC Number 1323872 Dewey Decimal 811/.5/4 LC Classification PS3553.A7823 D7 Dreams from R'lyeh is a collection of poems by Lin Carter. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,152 copies. It was Carter's only book published by Arkham House. The Sonnet Cycle, "Dreams from R'lyeh", that comprises the first two-thirds of the book, consists of poems inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.
Contents
- "Merlin on the Queens Express", by L. Sprague de Camp
- Dreams from R'lyeh: A Sonnet Cycle
- I. "Remembrances"
- II. "Arkham"
- III. "The Festival"
- IV. "The Old Wood"
- V. "The Locked Attic"
- VI. "The Shunned Church"
- VII. "The Last Ritual"
- VIII. "The Library"
- IX. "Black Thirst"
- X. "The Elder Age"
- XI. "Lost R'lyeh"
- XII. "Unknown Kadath"
- XIII. "Abdul Alhazred"
- XIV. "Hyperborea"
- XV. "The Book of Eibon"
- XVI. "Tsathoggua"
- XVII. "Black Zimbabwe"
- XVIII. "The Return"
- XIX. "The Sabbat"
- XX. "Black Lotus"
- XXI. "The Unspeakable"
- XXII. "Carcosa"
- XXIII. "The Candidate"
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- XXIV. "The Dream-Daemon"
- XXV. "Dark Yuggoth"
- XXVI. "The Silver Key"
- XXVII. "The Peaks Beyond Throk"
- XXVIII. "Spawn of the Black Goat"
- XXIX. "Beyond"
- XXX. "The Accursed"
- XXXI. "The Million favored Ones"
- Other Poems
- "Lunae Custodiens"
- "Merlin, Enchanted"
- "To Clark Ashton Smith"
- "Once in Fabled Grandeur"
- "The Night Kings"
- "All Hallow's Eve"
- "Shard"
- "The Wind in the Rigging"
- "Diombar's Song of the Last Battle"
- "The Elf-King's Castle"
- "To Lord Dunsany"
- "The Forgotten"
- "Golden Age"
- "Lines Written to a Painting by Hannes Bok"
- "Death-Song of Conan the Cimmerian"
- "Author's Note"
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.. pp. 112–113. 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.. pp. 135–136.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 125–127. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 120–121. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
Categories:- 1975 books
- American poetry collections
- Books by Lin Carter
- Cthulhu Mythos stories
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