Don't Dream

Don't Dream

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Donald Wandrei
Illustrator	Rodger Gerberding
Cover artist	Jon Arfstrom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror short stories, Prose poetry, essays
Publisher	Fedogan & Bremer
Publication date	1989
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xv, 395 pp
ISBN	1-878252-27-5
OCLC	37738363

Don't Dream is a collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror stories by author Donald Wandrei. It was released in 1997 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,000 copies. The collection also includes a number of Wandrei's essays and prose poems. Many of the stories, essays and poems originally appeared in the magazines The Minnesota Quarterly, Weird Tales , Astounding Stories , Fantasy Magazine, Argosy , Esquire , Unknown and Leaves.

Contents

• Editors’ Note, by Philip J. Rahman & Dennis E. Weiler
• Introduction, Helen Mary Hughesdon
• Fiction
  • "A Fragment of a Dream"
  • "The Shadow of a Nightmare"
  • "The Green Flame"
  • "The Tree-Men of M’bwa"
  • "When the Fire Creatures Came"
  • "The Lives of Alfred Kramer"
  • "The Fire Vampires"
  • "Spawn of the Sea"
  • "The Lady in Gray"
  • "The Man Who Never Lived"
  • "The Nerveless Man"
  • "The Chuckler"
  • "A Scientist Divides"
  • "The Destroying Horde"
  • "The Monster from Nowhere"
  • "The Witch-Makers"
  • "The Eye and the Finger"
  • "The Painted Mirror"
  • "Uneasy Lie the Drowned"
  • "Giant-Plasm"
  • "Don’t Dream"
  • "It Will Grow On You"
  • "Strange Harvest"
  • "Nightmare"
  • "The Crater"
  • "Delirium of the Dead"
• Prose Poems, Essays, and Marginalia
  • "The Messengers"
  • "The Pursuers"
  • "The Woman at the Window"
  • "The Purple Land"
  • "Dreaming Away My Life"
  • "Black Flame"
  • "The Shrieking House"
  • "The Phantom City"
  • "The Kingdom of Dreams"
  • "The Lotus and the Poppy"
  • "Unforgotten Night"
  • "Santon Merlin"
  • "Cigarette Characterization"
  • "The Imaginative Element in Modern Literature"
• "Of Donald Wandrei, August Derleth and H.P.Lovecraft", by D. H. Olson

References

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)" . Retrieved 2008-03-31.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 255–256.