- The Sleeping and the Dead
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name = The Sleeping and the Dead
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = edited byAugust Derleth
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country =United States
language = English
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genre = Fantasy Horrorshort stories
publisher = Pellegrini & Cudahy
release_date =1947
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = vi, 518 pp
isbn = NA
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followed_by ="The Sleeping and the Dead" is an anthology of Fantasy and Horror stories edited by
August Derleth . It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1947. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines "The London Mercury", "Weird Tales ", "Scribner's", "Dublin University Magazine", "Unknown", "Esquire", "The Bellman", "Vanity Fair" and "Black Mask". An abridged edition (15 stories) was published by Four Square Books in 1963 under the same title.Contents
* Introduction, by
August Derleth
* "A View from a Hill", byM. R. James
* "Glory Hand", byAugust Derleth
* "The Lady’s Maid’s Bell", byEdith Wharton
* "The Shadows", byHenry S. Whitehead
* "Out of the Eons", by Hazel Heald
* "The Jar", byRay Bradbury
* "The Bully of Chapelizod", byJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu
* "Over the River", byP. Schuyler Miller
* "Carnaby’s Fish", byCarl Jacobi
* "The Painted Mirror", byDonald Wandrei
* "The Double Shadow", byClark Ashton Smith
* "The Ocean Leech", byFrank Belknap Long
* "Amina", byEdward Lucas White
* "Farewell Performance", byH. Russell Wakefield
* "One Way to Mars", byRobert Bloch
* "Out of the Picture", byArthur Machen
* "The Canal", by Everil Worrell
* "The Postman of Otford", byLord Dunsany
* "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind", by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
* "Spider Bite", byRobert S. Carr
* "Brenner’s Boy", byJohn Metcalfe
* "Mr. Lupescu", byAnthony Boucher
* "Masquerade", byHenry Kuttner
* "Seventh Sister", byMary Elizabeth Counselman
* "In Amundsen’s Tent", by John Martin Leahy
* "Man in a Hurry", byAlan Nelson
* "The Last Pin", by H. W. Guernsey
* "The Doll", byAlgernon Blackwood
* "The Tool", byWilliam F. Harvey
* "The Dreams in the Witch-House ", byH. P. Lovecraft
* BibliographyReferences
*cite web
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first = William G.
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title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
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accessdate = 2008-01-07
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=140| date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1
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