Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a collection of fantasy, horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 and 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...

 short stories

Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

, poems and essays by American author H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

. It was released in 1943

1943 in literature

The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune.*Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States....

 and was the second collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. 1,217 copies were printed. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Beyond the Wall of Sleep (short story)

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919.-Inspiration:...

".

The stories for this volume were selected by August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

 and Donald Wandrei

Donald Wandrei

Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei...

. The dust jacket art was a collage of photographs of sculptures by Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...

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Contents

Beyond the Wall of Sleep contains the following tales:

1. "By Way of Introduction", by August Derleth
   August Derleth
   August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
   
    & Donald Wandrei
   Donald Wandrei
   Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei...
   
   
2. "Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
   Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
   Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity is an autobiographical essay by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1963 by Arkham House in an edition of 500 copies. The essay was originally included in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. This reprinting includes annotations by August Derleth...
   
   "
3. "The Commonplace Book"
4. "History and Chronology of the Necronomicon"
5. "Memory"
6. "What the Moon Brings
   What the Moon Brings
   What the Moon Brings is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on June 5, 1922. This story was first published in the National Amateur in May 1923. It is shorter than most of Lovecraft's other short stories, and is essentially a fragment...
   
   "
7. "Nyarlathotep
   Nyarlathotep
   Nyarlathotep, also known as the Crawling Chaos, is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe created by H. P. Lovecraft. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop...
   
   "
8. "Ex Oblivione
   Ex Oblivione
   "Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.-Inspiration:An H. P...
   
   "
9. "The Tree
   The Tree (short story)
   "The Tree" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1920 and first published in the October 1921.-Background:...
   
   "
10. "The Other Gods
    The Other Gods
    "The Other Gods" is a short story written by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft on August 14, 1921. It was first published in the November 1933 issue of The Fantasy Fan.-Synopsis:...
    
    "
11. "The Quest of Iranon
    The Quest of Iranon
    "The Quest of Iranon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on February 28, 1921, and was first published in the July/August 1935 issue of the magazine Galleon. It was later reprinted in Weird Tales in 1939.-Plot summary:...
    
    "
12. "The Doom That Came to Sarnath
    The Doom that Came to Sarnath
    "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" is an early short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fairy tale style and is associated with his Dream Cycle...
    
    "
13. "The White Ship
    The White Ship
    "The White Ship" is a short story written by science fiction and horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur #2, November 1919....
    
    "
14. "From Beyond
    From Beyond (short story)
    "From Beyond" is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 .-Synopsis:...
    
    "
15. "Beyond the Wall of Sleep
    Beyond the Wall of Sleep (short story)
    "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919.-Inspiration:...
    
    "
16. "The Unnamable
    The Unnamable (short story)
    "The Unnamable" is a short story by science fiction and horror author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September of 1923 and was first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales.-Plot summary:...
    
    "
17. "The Hound
    The Hound
    This page deals with the H. P. Lovecraft short story. For the character from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, see Sandor Clegane"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales...
    
    "
18. "The Moon-Bog
    The Moon-Bog
    "The Moon Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921 and first published in the June 1926 issue of Weird Tales....
    
    "
19. "The Evil Clergyman
    The Evil Clergyman
    "The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story....
    
    "
20. "Herbert West--Reanimator
    Herbert West--Reanimator
    "Herbert West—Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew...
    
    "
21. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
    The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
    The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. It was completed in 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that comprise his Dream Cycle and the longest to feature protagonist Randolph Carter, and can thus be considered a culminating...
    
    "
22. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
    The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
    The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short novel by H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's liftetime...
    
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23. "The Crawling Chaos
    The Crawling Chaos
    "The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson , first published April 1921 in the United Cooperative.-Synopsis:...
    
    " (with Elizabeth Berkeley)
24. "The Green Meadow
    The Green Meadow
    "The Green Meadow" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson written in 1918/19 and published in the spring 1927 issue of The Vagrant.- Synopsis :...
    
    " (with Elizabeth Berkeley)
25. "The Curse of Yig" (with Zealia Brown-Reed
    Zealia Bishop
    Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop was an American writer of short stories.Her stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. However, they were extensively revised by H. P...
    
    )
26. "The Horror in the Museum
    The Horror in the Museum
    "The Horror in the Museum" is a short story ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for Hazel Heald in October 1932. The story has been reprinted in several collections, such as The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions.- Plot :...
    
    " (with Hazel Heald)
27. "Out of the Eons
    Out of the Aeons
    "Out of the Aeons" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. It focuses around a Boston museum that has found an ancient mummy from a past-sunken island to be put on display.-Plot summary:...
    
    " (with Hazel Heald)
28. "The Mound
    The Mound (short story)
    "The Mound" is a novella H. P. Lovecraft wrote as a ghostwriter from December 1929 to January 1930 after he was hired by Zealia Bishop to create a story based on the following plot synopsis:...
    
    " (with Zealia Brown-Reed
    Zealia Bishop
    Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop was an American writer of short stories.Her stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. However, they were extensively revised by H. P...
    
    )
29. "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" (with William Lumley)
30. "The Challenge from Beyond" (with C. L. Moore
    C. L. Moore
    Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction....
    
    , A. Merritt
    A. Merritt
    Abraham Grace Merritt — known by his byline, A. Merritt — was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction.-Life:...
    
    , 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....
    
    , and Frank Belknap Long
    Frank Belknap Long
    Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
    
    )
31. "In the Walls of Eryx
    In the Walls of Eryx
    "In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by the pulp fiction author H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J. Sterling, written in January 1936 and first published in Weird Tales magazine in October 1939...
    
    " (with Kenneth Sterling)
32. "Ibid
    Ibid (short story)
    "Ibid" is a parody by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1927 or 1928 and first published in the January 1938 issue of O-Wash-Ta-Nong.- Summary :...
    
    "
33. "Sweet Ermengarde
    Sweet Ermengarde
    "Sweet Ermengarde" is a short comic story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was probably written between 1919 and 1921; Lovecraft scholars state it is "the only work of fiction by HPL that cannot be dated with precision." It was first published in the Arkham House collection...
    
    "
34. "Providence"
35. "On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park"
36. "Old Christmas"
37. "New England Fallen"
38. "On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight"
39. "Astrophobos"
40. "Sunset"
41. "A Year Off"
42. "A Summer Sunset and Evening"
43. "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema"
44. "The Ancient Track"
45. "The Eidolon"
46. "The Nightmare Lake"
47. "The Outpost"
48. "The Rutted Road"
49. "The Wood"
50. "Hallowe'en in a Suburb"
51. "Primavera"
52. "October"
53. "To a Dreamer"
54. "Despair"
55. "Nemesis"
56. "Psychopompos"
57. "The Book"
58. "Pursuit"
59. "The Key"
60. "Recognition"
61. "Homecoming"
62. "The Lamp"
63. "Zaman's Hill"
64. "The Port"
65. "The Courtyard"
66. "The Pigeon-Flyers"
67. "The Well"
68. "The Howler"
69. "Hesperia"
70. "Star-Winds"
71. "Antarktos"
72. "The Window"
73. "A Memory"
74. "The Gardens of Yin"
75. "The Bells"
76. "Night-Gaunts"
77. "Nyarlathotep"
78. "Azathoth"
79. "Mirage"
80. "The Canal"
81. "St. Toad’s"
82. "The Familiars"
83. "The Elder Pharos"
84. "Expectancy"
85. "Nostalgia"
86. "Background"
87. "The Dweller"
88. "Alienation"
89. "Harbour Whistles"
90. "Recapture"
91. "Evening Star"
92. "Continuity"
93. "Yule Horror"
94. "To Mr. Finlay"
95. "To Clark Ashton Smith"
96. "Where Once Poe Walked"
97. "Christmas Greetings to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell"
98. "Brick Row"
99. "The Messenger"
100. "The Cthulhu Mythology: A Glossary" by Francis T. Laney
101. "An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft" by W. Paul Cook