Dreams from R'lyeh

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Title Dreams from R'lyeh

Jacket illustration by Tim Kirk for Dreams from R'lyeh
Author Lin Carter
Cover artist Tim Kirk
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) poetry
Publisher Arkham House
Released 1975
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xv, 72 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-87054-067-X

Dreams from R'lyeh is an collection of poems by Lin Carter. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,152 copies. It was the author's first 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.

[edit] Contents

Dreams from R'lyeh contains the following poems:

  1. "Merlin on the Queens Express", by L. Sprague deCamp
  2. 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"
    • 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"
  3. 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"
  4. "Author's Note"

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 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., 135-136. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 125-127. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 120-121. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. 
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