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Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares

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Cover artist
  
Gary Gore

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1960

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1960

Pages
  
233 pp

Author
  
Robert Bloch

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Robert Bloch books, Horror books

Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Robert Bloch. It was released in 1960 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,060 copies.

Contents

The stories originally appeared in several magazines between 1946 and 1958. The collection includes Bloch's 1959 Hugo Award winning story, "That Hell-Bound Train."

Contents

Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares contains the following tales:

  1. "Sweets to the Sweet"
  2. "The Dream-Makers"
  3. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
  4. "I Kiss Your Shadow"
  5. "Mr. Steinway"
  6. "The Proper Spirit"
  7. "Catnip"
  8. "The Cheaters"
  9. "Hungarian Rhapsody"
  10. "The Lighthouse" (with Edgar Allan Poe)
  11. "The Hungry House"
  12. "The Sleeping Beauty"
  13. "Sweet Sixteen"
  14. "That Hell-Bound Train"
  15. "Enoch"

Reprints

  • London: Whiting & Wheaton, 1967 as Pleasant Dreams and Nightmares.

    • References

    Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares Wikipedia
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