Don't Dream

Don't Dream gathers forty short stories, novelettes, prose poems, unpublished sketches and essays by Donald Wandrei into a single omnibus edition. Classic horror stories such as "The Painted Mirror", previously uncollected stories, and unpublished material amply demonstrate Wandrei's talents and versatility in the field of fantasy, science fiction, and supernatural horror.

From the dust jacket "At the time that Lovecraft died, Donald Wandrei was the most natural successor to him that I could think of."—Fritz Leiber

This volume gathers together all of Donald Wandrei's horror and fantasy fiction. Besides such classic tales as "The Painted Mirror" and "It Will Grow on You." Don't Dream reprints for the first time Wandrei's earliest horror story in Weird Tales, "Shadow of a Nightmare" and his droll fantasy "Don't Dream" from the classic pulp Unknown.

Also included are the unpublished stories, "When the Fire Creatures Came" and his Poesque paean to dark love, "Delirium of the Dead", along with previously unseen prose poems such as "The Purple Land" and "Dreaming Away My Life".

Wandrei's versatility in horror writing is amply demonstrated in the dream-like fantasy of "The Woman at the Window", the ghostly chills of "Uneasy Lie the Drowned", the disquieting psychological horror of "The Eye and the Finger", and the all-out, tommy-gun blazing, pulp thrills of "The Destroying Horde".

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"The first science fiction book I ever read contained a Donald Wandrei story. I was amazed then, I am amazed now. And extremely pleased that he's back in print; he was a wonderful writer."—Harlan Ellison

"One of the greatest of the pulp visionaries, Wandrei had a remarkable ability to out-cosmic Lovecraft and even Edmond Hamilton with a flair that has made his work stand the test of time."—Mike Ashley

"Donald Wandrei joins a very select company in his excellence as a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Perhaps his most distinguishing feather is a spectacularly bizarre, 'cosmic' imagination, laced with a wholly delightful and refreshing soupçon of misanthropy. The best of his work is weird in the quintessential sense of that term."—S. T. Joshi