Nightmare Need

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Nightmare Need

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Jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Nightmare Need
Author Joseph Payne Brennan
Cover artist Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Genre Poetry
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1964
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 69 pp

Nightmare Need is a collection of poems by Joseph Payne Brennan. It was released in 1964 by Arkham House in an edition of 500 copies. The book was printed and published in England by Villiers Publications Ltd for Arkham House and lacks the distinctive gold printing on black binding of most Arkham House publications.

Joseph Payne Brennan was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked as an Acquisitions Assistant at the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University for over 40 years. Brennan published several hundred short stories, two novellas and reputedly thousands of poems. His stories appeared in over 200 anthologies and have been translated into German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. He was an early bibliographer of the work of H.P. Lovecraft.

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1964.

Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The colophon for Arkham House was designed by Frank Utpatel.

Contents

Nightmare Need contains the following poems:

  1. "The Old Man With Tarnished Eyes"
  2. "The Gods Return"
  3. "Return of the Young Men"
  4. "The Guest"
  5. "Demon's Wood"
  6. "The Humming Stair"
  7. "A Chinese Fable"
  8. "The Snow Wish"
  9. "Poems Unpleasant"
  10. "How Shall I Speak of Stored Intemperate Terrors?"
  11. "The Old Man"
  12. "The Leopard"
  13. "The Man With a Pear"
  14. "The Wild Boars"
  15. "An Hour After Midnight"
  16. "Atavism"
  17. "Confederate Cemetery, 1961"
  18. "Spruce Stump"
  19. "When Yellow Leaves"
  20. "Undertakers"
  21. "Grandmother's Parlour"
  22. "Mad Lines"
  23. "Interment for the Atom Age"
  24. "On Desolate Streets"
  25. "Forest Fantastique"
  26. "In the Night's Cold Passage"
  27. "Epitaph"
  28. "Suicide"
  29. "Somewhere on the Sapphire Winds"
  30. "Grandfather's Ghost"
  31. "Nightmare: The Arena"
  32. "One Winter Afternoon"
  33. "The Scythe of Dreams"
  34. "The Knowing Heart"
  35. "The Black Rent"
  36. "The Secret Cage"
  37. "Your God of Harps"
  38. "Heart of Earth"
  39. "The Eyes"
  40. "The Dead Reach Out"
  41. "Desolation"
  42. "The Wind of Time"
  43. "Dreamland"
  44. "Wraith on the Wind"
  45. "Resurrected Skull"
  46. "The Grey Horror"
  47. "Nocturne Macabre"
  48. "Black October"
  49. "The White Huntress"
  50. "The Silent Houses"
  51. "Rehearsal"
  52. "The Cold Corridors"
  53. "The Chestnut Roasters"
  54. "Riddle"

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