Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

BookThe Twa Corbies
EditorAugust Derleth
PublisherArkham House
Printed byThe Collegiate Press
Calligraphy byFrank Utpatel
Contributing WriterAnonymous, William Blake, Robert Burns, James Hogg, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Moore, Richard Harris Barham, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, Thomas Hood, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Bell Scott, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Kingsley, Sidney Thompson Dobell, William Allingham, Charles Godfrey Leland, Fitz-James O'Brien, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, James Thomson, William Morris, Richard Garnett, Robert Buchanan, A. P. Graves, James Whitcomb Riley, Lizette Woodworth Reese, A. E. Housman, José Asunción Silva, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arthur Guiterman, Walter de la Mare, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Joyce Kilmer, William Rose Benét, Vincent Starrett, Roy Helton, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Clark Ashton Smith, Timeus Gaylord, Stephen Vincent Benét, Mark Van Doren, Arthur Inman, Frank Belknap Long, Merrill Moore, Yetza Gillespie, Francis Flagg, Dorothy Quick, Robert E. Howard, Donald Wandrei, August Derleth, Anthony Boucher, Byron Herbert Reece, Duane W. Rimel, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Leah Bodine Drake, Harvey Wagner Flink, Coleman Rosenberger
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationSauk City, WI
Copyright1947
This Edition Published1947
Pages / Font418 pages / Garamond
ChaptersANONYMOUS The Twa Corbies A Lyke-Wake Dirge William and Marjorie The Wee Wee Man The Wife of Usher's Well WILLIAM BLAKE Fair Eleanor ROBERT BURNS Address to the Deil Tam O'Shanter: A Tale Death and Dr. Hornbook: A True Story JAMES HOGG Kilmeny SIR WALTER SCOTT The Eve of St. John SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan Phantom THOMAS MOORE The Lake of the Dismal Swamp RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM The Hand of Glory JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The Erl King JOHN KEATS La Belle Dame sans Merci THOMAS HOOD The Haunted House The Dream of Eugene Aram Pompey's Ghost The Ghost THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES The Phantom-Wooer The Ghosts' Moonshine HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Phantom Ship The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi The Ghosts EDGAR ALLAN POE The Raven Dream-Land Ulalume ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Rizpah WILLIAM BELL SCOTT A Lowland Witch Ballad J. SHERIDAN LE FANU The Legend of the Glaive CHARLES KINGSLEY The Weird Lady The Sands of Dee SIDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Keith of Ravelston WILLIAM ALLINGHAM The Witch Bride The Fairies CHARLES GODFREY LELAND The Flying Dutchman FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN The Lost Steamship The Three Gannets The Demon of the Gibbet DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Sister Helen CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Goblin Market The Ghost's Petition JAMES THOMSON The City of Dreadful Night WILLIAM MORRIS The Wind RICHARD GARNETT The Highwayman's Ghost ROBERT BUCHANAN The Ballad of Judas Iscariot A. P. GRAVES The Song of the Ghost JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY A Glimpse of Pan The Witch of Erkmurden LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE A Windy Night Roads An April Ghost Bitters A. E. HOUSMAN The True Lover JOSÉ ASUNCIÓN SILVA Lazarus DORA SIGERSON SHORTER All-Souls' Night The Fair Little Maiden The Fetch The Fairy Thorn-Tree EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Luke Havergal ARTHUR GUITERMAN The Superstitious Ghost WALTER DE LA MARE The Listeners The Little Green Orchard The Ghost AMY LOWELL A Dracula of the Hills The Paper in the Gate-Legged Table Haunted ROBERT FROST The Witch of Coös JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON The Little Dead Child JOYCE KILMER Dave Lilly WILLIAM ROSE BENÉT The Sorceress of the Moon VINCENT STARRETT 221B Changeling Visitation Legend Gooseflesh Extraordinary Visit Sea Story ROY HELTON Lonesome Water Old Christmas HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT Psychopompos Fungi from Yuggoth The Messenger The Ancient Track ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN The Warning CLARK ASHTON SMITH The Eldritch Dark Warning The Hashish-Eater Nightmare Outlanders Nyctalops Shadows The Envoys Fantaisie d'Antan In Thessaly Resurrection TIMEUS GAYLORD The Owls MARK VAN DOREN The Orchard Ghost ARTHUR INMAN Werewolf STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT Metropolitan Nightmare Nightmare Number Three FRANK BELKNAP LONG The Goblin Tower In Mayan Splendor Sonnet A Knight of La Mancha On Reading Arthur Machen The Abominable Snow Men The Horror on Dagoth Wold MERRILL MOORE Just Then the Door YETZA GILLESPIE Forgetful Hour The Specter's Tale The Haunted Stairs FRANCIS FLAGG The Snake The Dreamer in the Desert DOROTHY QUICK Strange Forest God Tree Woman The Wolves of Egremont ROBERT ERVIN HOWARD The Harp of Alfred Futility The Singer in the Mist Arkham Solomon Kane's Home-Coming Moon Mockery The King and the Oak Recompense Always Comes Evening The Ghost Kings The Last Hour Which Will Scarcely Be Understood Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die DONALD WANDREI Sonnets of the Midnight Hours AUGUST DERLETH Weldon House Lois Malone Ted Birkett Bart Hinch The Shores of Night Man at the Window Stranger in the Night Mark of Man, Mark of Beast ANTHONY BOUCHER Sonnet of the Unsleeping Dead BYRON HERBERT REECE Fox Hunters of Hell DUANE W. RIMEL Dreams of Yith MARY ELIZABETH COUNSELMAN Nostalgia Echidna LEAH BODINE DRAKE Changeling Wood Wife In the Shadows The Path Through the Marsh The Tenants All-Saints' Eve The Ballad of the Jabberwock: A True Tale of Squankom Town Heard on the Roof at Midnight HARVEY WAGNER FLINK Wayfarers Two Hunters COLEMAN ROSENBERGER Star Gazer Death at Sea The Goats of Juan Fernandez: A Note on Survival
NotesFirst Edition, in First State dust jacket. Tweny-five hundred copies printed by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin. Issued in two states, identical except for the dust jackets. Many first state dust jackets were destroyed during storage. The first state dust jacket features green lettering by Frank Utpatel. The more common second state features orange and white lettering by Gary Gore. Some copies had tipped-in errata sheets on the copyright pages.
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