Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird & Fantastic
Edited by S. T. Joshi.
Dreams and nightmares often give us glimpses into our true character; they can reveal our deepest anxieties and our most ambitious aspirations. Weird fiction has a rich history with dreamlike stories and nightmares that cross boundaries between the real and imaginary. Even H. P. Lovecraft endured many bizarre dreams from the early days of his youth that he then used as inspiration for some of his fiction and poetry. Now world-renowned weird fiction scholar and editor S. T. Joshi has assembled a new set of nightmares from some of the strongest minds in weird fiction today.
Announcing Nightmare’s Realm: New Tales of the Weird & Fantastic edited by S. T. Joshi with cover artwork by Samuel Araya. Featuring 100% original fiction focusing on the theme of dreams and nightmares by authors Ramsey Campbell, John Shirley, Caitlin R. Kiernan, John Langan, Simon Strantzas, Nancy Kilpatrick, W. H. Pugmire and many more.
Contents:
- Introduction by S. T. Joshi
- Prologue: To a Dreamer by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Dreamed by Ramsey Campbell
- A Predicament by Darrell Schweitzer
- Kafkaesque by Jason V Brock
- Beneath the Veil by David Barker
- Dreams Downstream by John Shirley
- Death-Dreaming by Nancy Kilpatrick
- Cast Lots by Richard Gavin
- The Wake by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Dead Letter Office by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- The Art of Memory by Donald Tyson
- What You Do Not Bring Forth by John Langan
- The Barrier Between by W. H. Pugmire
- Sleep Hygiene by Gemma Files
- Purging Mom by Jonathan Thomas
- The Fifth Stone by Simon Strantzas
- In the City of Sharp Edges by Stephen Woodworth
- An Actor’s Nightmare by Reggie Oliver
- Epilogue: Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe
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S. T. Joshi
S. T. Joshi is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft and the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos (2008), and other critical and biographical studies. His biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), won the British Fantasy Award and the Horror Writers Association award; it has now been published in an unabridged edition as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010). Joshi has prepared corrected editions of Lovecraft's fiction, poetry, and essays, and is working on a long-range project to publish Lovecraft's collected letters. He has also done work on Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, Lord Dunsany, and other writers. He has received the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Leslie, and numerous cats.

