Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
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
- The Black Stone story Howard writing Publications
69 contents entries
- "The Black Stone"
- Sleep No More (half title page) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye i · artwork
- Non-REH Contents
- Sleep No More (title page) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye iii · artwork
- "Foreword" by August Derleth
- Sleep No More (contents) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye v · artwork
- "Count Magnus" by M. R. James
- Foreword (Sleep No More) • essay by August Derleth vi · introduction
- "Cassius" by Henry S. Whitehead
- Foreword (Sleep No More) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye x · artwork
- "The Occupant of the Room" by Algernon Blackwood
- Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James 1 · story
- "The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith
- Count Magnus • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 2 · artwork
- "Johnson Looked Back" by Thomas Burke
- Cassius • [Gerald Canevin] • (1931) • novelette by Henry S. Whitehead 17 · novelette
- "The Hand of the O'Mecca" by Howard Wandrei
- Cassius • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 18 · artwork
- "He Cometh and He Passeth By" by H. Russell Wakefield
- The Occupant of the Room • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood 59 · story
- "Thus I Refute Beelzy" by John Collier
- The Occupant of the Room • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 60 · artwork
- "The Mannikin" by Robert Bloch
- The Return of the Sorcerer • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith 71 · story
- "Two Black Bottles" by W. B. Talman
- The Return of the Sorcerer • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 72 · artwork
- "The House of Sounds" by M. P. Shiel
- Johnson Looked Back • (1935) • short story by Thomas Burke 91 · story
- "The Cane" by Carl Jacobi
- Johnson Looked Back • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 92 · artwork
- "The Horror in the Burying Ground" by Hazel Heald
- The Hand of the O'Mecca • (1935) • short story by Howard Wandrei 99 · story
- "The Kennel" by Maurice Level
- The Hand of the O'Mecca • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 100 · artwork
- "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers
- "He Cometh and He Passeth By!" • (1928) • novelette by H. Russell Wakefield [as by H. R. Wakefield] 115 · novelette
- "Midnight Express" by Alfred Noyes
- "He Cometh and He Passeth By!" • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 116 · artwork
- "A Gentleman From Prague" by S. Grendon
- Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier 147 · story
- "The Black Druid" by Frank Belknap Long
- Thus I Refute Beelzy • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 148 · artwork
- "The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Mannikin • (1937) • short story by Robert Bloch 155 · story
- The Mannikin • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 157 · artwork
- Two Black Bottles • short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Wilfred Blanch Talman [as by Wilfred B. Talman] 177 · story
- Two Black Bottles • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 178 · artwork
- The House of Sounds • (1911) • novelette by M. P. Shiel 193 · novelette
- The House of Sounds • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 194 · artwork
- The Cane • (1934) • short story by Carl Jacobi 227 · story
- The Cane • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 228 · artwork
- 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
- The Horror in the Burying Ground • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 246 · artwork
- The Kennel • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Le chenil 1906) 263 · story
- The Kennel • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 265 · artwork
- The Yellow Sign • [King in Yellow (Chambers)] • (1895) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers 273 · novelette
- The Yellow Sign • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 274 · artwork
- The Yellow Sign [2] • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 295 · artwork
- The Black Stone • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1931) • short story by Robert E. Howard 297 · story
- The Black Stone • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 298 · artwork
- Midnight Express • (1935) • short story by Alfred Noyes 319 · story
- Midnight Express • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 320 · artwork
- A Gentleman from Prague • (1944) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon] 327 · story
- A Gentleman from Prague • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 328 · artwork
- The Black Druid • (1930) • short story by Frank Belknap Long 339 · story
- The Black Druid • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 340 · artwork
- The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft 351 · novelette
- The Rats in the Walls • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 352 · artwork
- 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 and editorial layers
Bibliographic source layer
- Title
- Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Date
- 1944
- Source file
- sleep_no_more-farrar-rinehart.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Date
- 1944