Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares

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Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares
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Jacket illustration by Gary Gore for Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares by Robert Bloch
Author Robert Bloch
Cover artist Gary Gore
Country United States
Language English
Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1960
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 233 pp

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.

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

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