Beyond the Gates of Dream is a collection of short stories by science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 author

Author

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 Lin Carter

Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...

. It was first published in paperback by Belmont Books

Belmont Books

Belmont Books was an American publisher of paperback books founded in 1960. It specialized in science fiction, horror and fantasy, with titles appearing from 1961 through 1971...

 in 1969.

The book collects seven stories by Carter, two of them collaborative, together with an introduction and afterward. One oddity in regard to the first edition of the collection 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 identifiable as "The Martian El Dorado of Parker Wintley," (later published in The DAW Science Fiction Reader

The DAW Science Fiction Reader

The DAW Science Fiction Reader is an anthology of science fiction stories, edited by Donald A. Wollheim. It was first published in both hardcover and paperback by DAW Books in July, 1976, and reprinted in paperback a number of times since. It was the 200th title from DAW, and was intended to mark...

(1976)) and "The Gods of Neol-Shendis," (published in Amra (Jul. 1966), later revised as "The Gods Of Niom Parma" (published in Warlocks and Warriors

Warlocks and Warriors

For the fantasy anthology published by Mayflower see Warlocks and Warriors Warlocks and Warriors is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by 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
  Randall Garrett
  Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s...
  
  )
• "Owlstone"
• "Keru"
• "The Hand of Nergal
  The Hand of Nergal
  "The Hand of Nergal" is one of the original short stories by American author Robert E. Howard starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, a fragment begun in the 1930s but not finished or published in Howard's lifetime...
  
  " (with Robert E. Howard
  Robert E. Howard
  Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
  
  )
• "Harvey Hodges, Veebelfetzer"
• "Uncollected Works"
• "The Mantichore" (from Khymyrium, a work-in-progress)
• "A Few Last Words" (afterword)