Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

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Title Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

Dust-jacket illustration by Smith-Wollin Studios and Frank Utpatel for Dark of the Moon
Author edited by August Derleth
Cover artist Smith-Wollin Studios and Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) fantasy, horror, poetry
Publisher Arkham House
Released 1947
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xvi, 418 pp
ISBN NA

Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre is a poetry anthology edited by August Derleth and published in 1947 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,051 copies. It is a pioneering anthology of weird poetry from the Middle Ages to the present, arranged chonologically.

[edit] Poets in Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

[edit] References

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