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Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur

Farrar & Rinehart

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Edition format
Contains

Publication date: 1944

Introduction

Sleep No More is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by August Derleth and illustrated by Lee Brown Coye, the first of three similar books in the 1940s. It was first published by Rinehart & Company in 1944.

Featuring short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and other noted authors of the macabre genre, many of the stories made their initial appearance in Weird Tales magazine. The anthology is considered to be a classic of the genre, and is the initial foray by Coye into the field of horror illustration.

Notes

Edited by August Derleth
There were 2nd, 3rd, and 4th printings in 1944.
First printing has publisher's monogram on copyright page
Brief REH bio included, with illustration.

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Hardcover with dust jacket
Publication date
1944
Pages
374
Publisher / imprint
Farrar & Rinehart
Cover art
Lee Brown Coye
Illustrations
Lee Brown Coye

1 linked Howard work

69 contents entries

  1. "The Black Stone"
  2. Sleep No More (half title page) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye i · artwork
  3. Non-REH Contents
  4. Sleep No More (title page) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye iii · artwork
  5. "Foreword" by August Derleth
  6. Sleep No More (contents) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye v · artwork
  7. "Count Magnus" by M. R. James
  8. Foreword (Sleep No More) • essay by August Derleth vi · introduction
  9. "Cassius" by Henry S. Whitehead
  10. Foreword (Sleep No More) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye x · artwork
  11. "The Occupant of the Room" by Algernon Blackwood
  12. Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James 1 · story
  13. "The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith
  14. Count Magnus • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 2 · artwork
  15. "Johnson Looked Back" by Thomas Burke
  16. Cassius • [Gerald Canevin] • (1931) • novelette by Henry S. Whitehead 17 · novelette
  17. "The Hand of the O'Mecca" by Howard Wandrei
  18. Cassius • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 18 · artwork
  19. "He Cometh and He Passeth By" by H. Russell Wakefield
  20. The Occupant of the Room • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood 59 · story
  21. "Thus I Refute Beelzy" by John Collier
  22. The Occupant of the Room • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 60 · artwork
  23. "The Mannikin" by Robert Bloch
  24. The Return of the Sorcerer • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith 71 · story
  25. "Two Black Bottles" by W. B. Talman
  26. The Return of the Sorcerer • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 72 · artwork
  27. "The House of Sounds" by M. P. Shiel
  28. Johnson Looked Back • (1935) • short story by Thomas Burke 91 · story
  29. "The Cane" by Carl Jacobi
  30. Johnson Looked Back • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 92 · artwork
  31. "The Horror in the Burying Ground" by Hazel Heald
  32. The Hand of the O'Mecca • (1935) • short story by Howard Wandrei 99 · story
  33. "The Kennel" by Maurice Level
  34. The Hand of the O'Mecca • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 100 · artwork
  35. "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers
  36. "He Cometh and He Passeth By!" • (1928) • novelette by H. Russell Wakefield [as by H. R. Wakefield] 115 · novelette
  37. "Midnight Express" by Alfred Noyes
  38. "He Cometh and He Passeth By!" • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 116 · artwork
  39. "A Gentleman From Prague" by S. Grendon
  40. Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier 147 · story
  41. "The Black Druid" by Frank Belknap Long
  42. Thus I Refute Beelzy • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 148 · artwork
  43. "The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft
  44. The Mannikin • (1937) • short story by Robert Bloch 155 · story
  45. The Mannikin • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 157 · artwork
  46. Two Black Bottles • short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Wilfred Blanch Talman [as by Wilfred B. Talman] 177 · story
  47. Two Black Bottles • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 178 · artwork
  48. The House of Sounds • (1911) • novelette by M. P. Shiel 193 · novelette
  49. The House of Sounds • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 194 · artwork
  50. The Cane • (1934) • short story by Carl Jacobi 227 · story
  51. The Cane • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 228 · artwork
  52. The Horror in the Burying Ground • (1933) • short story by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft (variant of The Horror in the Burying-Ground) [as by Hazel Heald] 245 · story
  53. The Horror in the Burying Ground • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 246 · artwork
  54. The Kennel • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Le chenil 1906) 263 · story
  55. The Kennel • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 265 · artwork
  56. The Yellow Sign • [King in Yellow (Chambers)] • (1895) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers 273 · novelette
  57. The Yellow Sign • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 274 · artwork
  58. The Yellow Sign [2] • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 295 · artwork
  59. The Black Stone • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1931) • short story by Robert E. Howard 297 · story
  60. The Black Stone • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 298 · artwork
  61. Midnight Express • (1935) • short story by Alfred Noyes 319 · story
  62. Midnight Express • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 320 · artwork
  63. A Gentleman from Prague • (1944) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon] 327 · story
  64. A Gentleman from Prague • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 328 · artwork
  65. The Black Druid • (1930) • short story by Frank Belknap Long 339 · story
  66. The Black Druid • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 340 · artwork
  67. The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft 351 · novelette
  68. The Rats in the Walls • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 352 · artwork
  69. The Rats in the Walls [2] • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 374 · artwork

Contributors

August Derleth
Editor, Foreword author
Lee Brown Coye
Illustrator, Cover artist, Foreword author

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Bibliographic source layer

Title
Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
Publisher
Farrar & Rinehart
Date
1944
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REH World editorial layer

Title
Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
Publisher
Farrar & Rinehart
Date
1944
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