Nine Horrors and a Dream

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Title Nine Horrors and a Dream

Jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Nine Horrors and a Dream
Author Joseph Payne Brennan
Cover artist Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Released 1958
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 120 pp
ISBN NA

Nine Horrors and a Dream is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Joseph Payne Brennan. It was released in 1958 by Arkham House in an edition of 1,336 copies. It was the author's first collection of stories to be published.

Some of the stories had originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales and other pulps of the 1950s. One of the stories, "The Hunt", was adapted for the television series Tales from the Darkside.

[edit] Contents

Nine Horrors and a Dream contains the following tales:

  1. "Slime"
  2. "Levitation"
  3. "The Calamander Chest"
  4. "Death in Peru"
  5. "On the Elevator"
  6. "The Green Parrot"
  7. "Canavan's Back Yard"
  8. "I'm Murdering Mr. Massingham"
  9. "The Hunt"
  10. "The Mail for Juniper Hill"

[edit] Reprints

  • New York: Ballantine, 1962.

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 49-50. 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., 36. 
  • Jones, Stephen; Kim Newman (1998). Horror: The 100 Best Books. New York: Carroll & Graf, 167-170. ISBN 0-7867-0552-3. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 65. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 78-79. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. 
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