Nighttouch
Journeying into the Realms of Nightmare
| Editors: | | Gerry Goldberg, Stephen Storoschuk and Fred Corbet. |
| Publisher: | | St. Martin’s Press, New York. |
| Date of publication: | | 1977. |
| Edition: | | Paperback. |
| ISBN: | | 0-312-57348-0. |
| Number of pages: | | 156 pages. |
| Size: | | 25.1 x 19.8 cm. |
| Number of copies: | | Not known. |
| Price: | | $0.75. |
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Back of Paperback |
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Front of Paperback |
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Front cover by Virgil Finlay.
Contents:
The book contains a history of horror films with numerous black & white movie stills from classic and obscure horror films.
- Transylvania: The Dreamer is plunged into a threatening situation
P.K. Page Preparation, page 11
Bernard Taylor Forget-Me-Not, page 11
John Crowe Ransom Old Mansion, page 20
Louise Bogan The Cupola, page 20
Patricia Highsmith The Snail Watcher, page 22
Miroslav Holub The Wind in Winter, page 25
Gwendolyn MacEwen The Shadow-Maker, page 25
Montague Summers from The Werewolf; The Case of Jean Grenier (1603), page 26
Robert Penn Warren Eidolon, page 27
Dilys Henrik Jones Road Signs, page 28
Peter Fleming The Kill, page 28
Allen Tate The Wolves, page 29
Colin Wilson from The Occult; The Case of Dion Fortune (1935), page 34
George Garrett The Quest, page 34
Ernest Jones from On the Nightmare, page 34
- The Castle:The Dreamer is overwhelmed by agonizing fear
Washington Post ‘I Can Hear His Screams’; Says Marine of Beating (1976), page 37
Rod Serling The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
John Hollander The Night .Mirror, page 38
Kenneth Patchen All The Roary Night, page 41
J.C. Nemiah from Foundations of Psychopathology - Akutagawa The Dragon, page 48
Coventry Patmore The Shadow of Night
Robert Graves Nobody
C.S. Lewis from Perelandra
Guy de Maupassant The Horla
Harry Guest A Twilight Man
Saint-Denys Garneau Bird Cage
Emily Bronte The Horrors of Sleep
Boris Pasternak from An Essay in Autobiography
Patricia Martland Primitive
Robert Bloch Mannikins of Horror
David Wagoner The Man From the Top of the Mind
Leonard Wolf from A Dream of Dracula; Altamont, Dec. 1969
William Alexander Percy Medusa
Edwin Muir The Bridge of Dread
- The Prisoner: The Dreamer makes futile attempts to 1 every avenue is closed
Ivan T. Sanderson from Investigating the Unexplained; The Olitiau (1932)
John Porter A Day
Siegfried Sassoon Haunted
Zealia Bishop The Curse of Yig
Theodore Roethke Snake
Bruce Elliott Wolves Don’t Cry
Engenio Montale The Prisoner’s Dream
Muriel Rukeyser The Minotaur
Roger Zelazny Corrida
Martin I. Ricketts The Night Fisherman
Howard Nemerov The Dragonfly
- Possession Possession: The Dreamer is paralysed by the attraction to, and revulsion of, the Nightmare
Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions, page 99
Thomas de Quincey Solitude, page 99
Clifford Dyment The Snow, page 99
Conrad Aiken Silent Snow, Secret Snow, page 100
Joyce Maynard The Monster Children 103
Basil Copper from The Vampire; Haigh and the Brand of Satan (1948), page 110
K. M. O'Donnell Trial of the Blood, page 115
Phillip Lamantia I Am Coming 120
Montague Summers from The History of Witchcraft and Demonology; The Case of Héléne-Joséphine Poirier (1850)
Colin Wilson from The Occult, page 124
Edgar Lee Masters Robert Davidson, page 124
Colin Wilson from The Occult, page 125
John Ciardi Damn Her, page 126
Theodore Sturgeon Bianca’s Hands, page 126
Thomas Hardy The Voice, page 130
- Release: The Dreamer temporarily eludes the Nightmare and awakens in a cold sweat, exhausted
Ted Hughes Invitation to the Dance, page 133
Edgar Allan Poe from The Premature Burial, page 133
H.P. Lovecraft Cool Air, page 135
Mark Strand Moontan, page 135
Alden Nowlan Siege, page 138
Walter de la Mare Drugged
Robert Louis Stevenson from The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Dr. Morel from Etudes Ciiniques (1852)
James Dickey The Ice Skin
Richard Matheson Blood Son
David Wagoner Words Above a Narrow Entrance
Alun Lewis The Sentry Roy Fuller The Image
Montague Summers from The Vampire, His Kith and Kin; The Hanover Vampire (1925)
R.P. Blackmur Mirage [Sea Island Miscellany.· IX]
Harlan Ellison from Blood Thoughts
E.L. Mayo The Loss
William Dickey Exploration Over the Rim
Epilogue