The Sleeping and the Dead

The Sleeping and the Dead
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	edited by August Derleth
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy Horror short stories
Publisher	Pellegrini & Cudahy
Publication date	1947
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	vi, 518 pp

The Sleeping and the Dead is an anthology of Fantasy and Horror stories edited by August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1947. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines The London Mercury, Weird Tales, Scribner's, Dublin University Magazine, Unknown, Esquire, The Bellman, Vanity Fair and Black Mask. An abridged edition (15 stories) was published by Four Square Books in 1963 under the same title.

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

References

Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-07.
Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 140. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

Works of August Derleth

Solar Pons	In Re: Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Solar Pons Three Problems for Solar Pons The Return of Solar Pons The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons A Praed Street Dossier The Chronicles of Solar Pons The Solar Pons Omnibus The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror	Someone in the Dark Something Near Not Long for this World The Survivor and Others The Mask of Cthulhu Lonesome Places The Trail of Cthulhu Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People The Watchers Out of Time and Others Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H.P. Lovecraft)

Science Fiction	Harrigan's File

Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"

Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders

Anthologies edited by	Sleep No More (editor) Who Knocks? The Night Side The Sleeping and the Dead Strange Ports of Call The Other Side of the Moon Beyond Time and Space Far Boundaries The Outer Reaches Beachheads in Space Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Worlds of Tomorrow Portals of Tomorrow Time to Come Dark Mind, Dark Heart New Worlds for Old The Sleeping and the Dead The Time of Infinity The Unquiet Grave When Evil Wakes From Other Worlds Over the Edge Travellers by Night Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Dark Things New Horizons

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The Sleeping and the Dead

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