''Beyond the Gates of Dream'' is a collection of short stories by
science fiction and
fantasy author
Lin Carter
Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. L ...
. It was first published in paperback by
Belmont Books in August 1969 and reprinted by Belmont Tower in November 1972, with later editions from Leisure Books in April 1982 and Wildside Press in December 1999. The first British edition was issued in paperback by Five Star in 1973; a later British edition was issued as an ebook by Gateway/Orion in March 2020. The book has been translated into
Dutch.
Summary
The book collects seven stories by Carter, two of them collaborative and four of them original to the collection, together with an introduction and afterward.
One oddity in regard to the book's first edition is that its back cover blurb references and summarizes three stories of Carter's presumably intended for the collection but which do not actually appear in it, including a time travel story and two other stories
[Carter, Lin. ''Beyond the Gates of Dream'', Belmont Books, 1972, back cover.] identifiable as "The Martian El Dorado of Parker Wintley," (later published in ''
The DAW Science Fiction Reader'' (1976)) and "The Gods of Neol-Shendis," (published in ''Amra'' (July 1966), later revised as "The Gods Of Niom Parma" (published in ''
Warlocks and Warriors
''Warlocks and Warriors'' is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardcover by Putnam in 1970, and in paperback by Berkley Books in 1971. ...
'' (1970)).
Contents
*"A Sort of Introduction, Called Here, and Back Again"
*"Masters of the Metropolis" (with
Randall Garrett) (from ''
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', April 1957)
*"Owlstone"
*"Keru"
*"
The Hand of Nergal" (with
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906June 11, 1936) was an American writer. He wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subge ...
) (from ''
Conan'', 1967)
*"Harvey Hodges, Veebelfetzer"
*"Uncollected Works" (from ''
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', March 1965)
*"The Mantichore" (from ''Khymyrium'', a work-in-progress)
*"A Few Last Words" (afterword)
Awards
"Uncollected Works" was nominated for the 1966
Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
References
{{Lin Carter (books)
1969 short story collections
Science fiction short story collections
Fantasy short story collections
Short story collections by Lin Carter
American short story collections