Beyond the Wall of Sleep (collection)

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Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Dust-jacket photograph by Burt Trimpey for Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Author	H. P. Lovecraft
Cover artist	Burt Trimpey and Clark Ashton Smith
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy, Horror, Science fiction short stories, poetry, essay
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1943
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xxix, 458 pp
ISBN	NA

Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories, poems and essays by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1943 and was the second collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkham House. 1,217 copies were printed. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep".

The stories for this volume were selected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. The dust jacket art was a collage of photographs of sculptures by Clark Ashton Smith.

[edit] Contents

Beyond the Wall of Sleep contains the following tales:

1. "By Way of Introduction", by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei
2. "Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity"
3. "The Commonplace Book"
4. "History and Chronology of the Necronomicon"
5. "Memory"
6. "What the Moon Brings"
7. "Nyarlathotep"
8. "Ex Oblivione"
9. "The Tree"
10. "The Other Gods"
11. "The Quest of Iranon"
12. "The Doom That Came to Sarnath"
13. "The White Ship"
14. "From Beyond"
15. "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"
16. "The Unnamable"
17. "The Hound"
18. "The Moon-Bog"
19. "The Evil Clergyman"
20. "Herbert West--Reanimator"
21. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"
22. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
23. "The Crawling Chaos" (with Elizabeth Berkeley)
24. "The Green Meadow" (with Elizabeth Berkeley)
25. "The Curse of Yig" (with Zealia Brown-Reed)
26. "The Horror in the Museum" (with Hazel Heald)
27. "Out of the Eons" (with Hazel Heald)
28. "The Mound" (with Zealia Brown-Reed)
29. "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" (with William Lumley)
30. "The Challenge from Beyond" (with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long)
31. "In the Walls of Eryx" (with Kenneth Sterling)
32. "Ibid"
33. "Sweet Ermengarde"
34. "Providence"
35. "On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park"
36. "Old Christmas"
37. "New England Fallen"
38. "On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight"
39. "Astrophobos"
40. "Sunset"
41. "A Year Off"
42. "A Summer Sunset and Evening"
43. "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema"
44. "The Ancient Track"
45. "The Eidolon"
46. "The Nightmare Lake"
47. "The Outpost"
48. "The Rutted Road"
49. "The Wood"
50. "Hallowe'en in a Suburb"
51. "Primavera"
52. "October"
53. "To a Dreamer"
54. "Despair"
55. "Nemesis"
56. "Psychopompos"
57. "The Book"
58. "Pursuit"
59. "The Key"
60. "Recognition"
61. "Homecoming"
62. "The Lamp"
63. "Zaman's Hill"
64. "The Port"
65. "The Courtyard"
66. "The Pigeon-Flyers"
67. "The Well"
68. "The Howler"
69. "Hesperia"
70. "Star-Winds"
71. "Antarktos"
72. "The Window"
73. "A Memory"
74. "The Gardens of Yin"
75. "The Bells"
76. "Night-Gaunts"
77. "Nyarlathotep"
78. "Azathoth"
79. "Mirage"
80. "The Canal"
81. "St. Toad’s"
82. "The Familiars"
83. "The Elder Pharos"
84. "Expectancy"
85. "Nostalgia"
86. "Background"
87. "The Dweller"
88. "Alienation"
89. "Harbour Whistles"
90. "Recapture"
91. "Evening Star"
92. "Continuity"
93. "Yule Horror"
94. "To Mr. Finlay"
95. "To Clark Ashton Smith"
96. "Where Once Poe Walked"
97. "Christmas Greetings to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell"
98. "Brick Row"
99. "The Messenger"
100. "The Cthulhu Mythology: A Glossary" by Francis T. Laney
101. "An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft" by W. Paul Cook

[edit] References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 5-6. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. 
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• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 24-25. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 27.