''Don't Dream'' is a collection of
science fiction
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,
fantasy
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The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ...
and
horror
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Arts, entertainment, and media
Genres
*Horror fiction, a genre of fiction
**Psychological horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
**Christmas horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
**Analog horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
* ...
stories by author
Donald Wandrei
Donald Albert Wandrei (20 April 1908 – 15 October 1987)[Minnesota Death Certificates Index](_blank)
. ...
. It was released in
1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
by
Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,000 copies. The collection also includes a number of Wandrei's
essays
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and
prose poems
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Characteristics
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. Many of the stories, essays and poems originally appeared in the magazines ''The Minnesota Quarterly'', ''
Weird Tales
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'', ''
Astounding Stories
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'', ''Fantasy Magazine'', ''
Argosy'', ''
Esquire
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'', ''
Unknown
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* The Unknown (1915 comedy film), ''The Unknown'' (1915 comedy film), Australian silent film
* The Unknown (1915 drama film), ''The Unknown'' (1915 drama film), American silent drama ...
'' and ''Leaves''.
Contents
* Editors’ Note, by Philip J. Rahman & Dennis E. Weiler
* Introduction, Helen Mary Hughesdon
* Fiction
** "A Fragment of a Dream"
** "The Shadow of a Nightmare"
** "The Green Flame"
** "The Tree-Men of M’bwa"
** "When the Fire Creatures Came"
** "The Lives of Alfred Kramer"
** "The Fire Vampires"
** "Spawn of the Sea"
** "The Lady in Gray"
** "The Man Who Never Lived"
** "The Nerveless Man"
** "The Chuckler"
** "A Scientist Divides"
** "The Destroying Horde"
** "The Monster from Nowhere"
** "The Witch-Makers"
** "The Eye and the Finger"
** "The Painted Mirror"
** "Uneasy Lie the Drowned"
** "Giant-Plasm"
** "Don’t Dream"
** "It Will Grow On You"
** "Strange Harvest"
** "Nightmare"
** "The Crater"
** "Delirium of the Dead"
* Prose Poems, Essays, and Marginalia
** "The Messengers"
** "The Pursuers"
** "The Woman at the Window"
** "The Purple Land"
** "Dreaming Away My Life"
** "Black Flame"
** "The Shrieking House"
** "The Phantom City"
** "The Kingdom of Dreams"
** "The Lotus and the Poppy"
** "Unforgotten Night"
** "Santon Merlin"
** "Cigarette Characterization"
** "The Imaginative Element in Modern Literature"
* "Of Donald Wandrei,
August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Lovecraftian horror, cosmi ...
and
H.P.Lovecraft", by D. H. Olson
References
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*{{cite book , last=Chalker , first=Jack L. , authorlink=Jack L. Chalker , author2=Mark Owings , title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 , location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore , publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd., pages=255–256 , year=1998
1997 short story collections
Science fiction short story collections by Donald Wandrei
Fantasy short story collections
Horror short story collections
American poetry collections
Fedogan & Bremer books