Derleth ed. The Sleeping and the Dead

[noose]

Pellegrini and Cudahy (1947)

CONTENTS:


Introduction
A View From a Hill - M R James
Glory Hand - August Derleth
The Lady's Maid's Bell - Edith Wharton
The Shadows - Henry S. Whitehead
Out of the Eons - Hazel Heald
The Jar - Ray Bradbury
The Bully of Chapelizod - J Sheridan Le Fanu
Over the River - P. Schuyler Miller
Carnaby's Fish - Carl Jacobi
The Painted Mirror - Donald Wandrei
The Double Shadow - Clark Ashton Smith
The Ocean Leech - Frank Belknap Long
Anima - Edward Lucas White
Farewell Performance - H R Wakefield
One Way to Mars - Robert Bloch
Out of the Picture - Arthur Machen
The Canal - Everil Worrell
The Postman of Otford - Lord Dunsany
Deaf, Dumb and Blind - C M Eddy Jnr
Spider Bite - Robert S. Carr
Brenner's Boy - John Metcalfe
Mr Lupescu - Anthony Boucher
Masquerade - Henry Kuttner
Seventh Sister - Mary E. Counselman
In Amundsen's Tent - John Martin Leahy
Man in a Hurry - Alan Nelson
The Last Pin - Howard Wandrie
The Doll - Algernon Blackwood
The Tool - William F Harvey
The Dreams in the Witch-House - H P Lovecraft

[David A. Riley]

One of the best anthologies ever. I remember getting a later New English Library (or it may have been Four Square) reprint of this in the 60s or early 70s.

The first and last story alone are worth getting it, being two of my favourite MR James' and HP Lovecraft stories ever, not to mention Hazel Heald's Out of the Eons, which was also worked on by Lovecraft.
Which isn't to say the rest aren't great. They're some of the best horror stories by the writers concerned.

Hope you enjoy this one, Johnny.

David

[noose]

David, I started reading it yesterday - the James story is absolutely wonderful and makes me want to read more and more of his stuff.

Had to get the book...

...and glad I did.

[David A. Riley]

So you have finally got his signature!

Well done.

David

[noose]

May 5, 2010 12:25:16 GMT David A. Riley said:

So you have finally got his signature!

Well done.

David

It took a while!!!

[shonokin]

I've read most of those in other places, and seeing them all together like this would have to agree that it looks like a really good collection.

[jamesdoig]

Peter Haining says in Horror: 100 Best Books, "I'm also glad to be able to say that I showed my appreciation of [The Sleeping and the Dead] in a more way while he was still alive. For when my career took me from journalism into publishing, before I finally became a full-time writer and anthologist, I had the great satisfaction of arranging the first publication in Great Britain of The Sleeping and Dead in a paperback edition under the Four Square imprint of New English Library."

For some reason, it's a truncated version of the original

[dem bones]

May 5, 2010 22:05:32 GMT jamesdoig said:

For some reason, it's a truncated version of the original

You get the rest of it in companion volume The Unquiet Grave. i guess Four Square felt it was too bulky for one paperback at the time.