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Nightmare Need

Joseph Payne Brennan

First published 1964
Publisher Arkham House & Villiers Publications
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Frank Utpatel
Pages 69
Price $3.50

Poetry collection.

Title page states "Printed & Published in England by Villiers Publications Ltd. for ARKHAM HOUSE: Publishers Sauk City, Wisconsin". 500 copies printed per S.T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House. Collection of 57 poems, app. 20 reprinted from previous works.

Year Reviewer Publication
1965 uncredited Magazine of Horror, August 1965
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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 The Old Man with Tarnished Eyes Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
12 The Gods Return Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
13 Return of the Young Men Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
14 The Guest Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
15 Demons' Wood Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
16 The Humming Stair Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
17 A Chinese Fable Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
19 The Snow Wish Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
20 Poems Unpleasant Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
21 How Shall I Speak of Stored Intemperate Terrors? Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
22 The Old Man Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
23 The Leopard Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
25 The Man with a Pear Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
26 The Wild Boars Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
27 An Hour After Midnight Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
28 Atavism Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
29 Confederate Cemetery, 1961 Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
30 Spruce Stump Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
31 When Yellow Leaves Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
32 Undertakers Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
33 Grandmother's Parlour Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
34 Mad Lines Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
35 Interment for the Atom Age Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
36 On Desolate Streets Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
37 Forest Fantastique Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
38 In the Night's Cold Passage Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
39 Epitaph Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
40 Suicide Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
41 Somewhere the Sapphire Winds Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
42 Grandfather's Ghost Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
43 Nightmare: The Arena Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
44 One Winter Afternoon Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
45 The Scythe of Dreams Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
46 The Knowing Heart Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
47 The Black Rent Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
48 The Secret Cage Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
49 Your God of Harps Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
50 Heart of Earth Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
51 The Eyes Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
52 The Dead Reach Out Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
53 Desolation Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
54 The Wind of Time Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
55 Dream-Land Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
56 Wraith on the Wind Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
57 The Man I Met Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
58 Land of Desolation Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
59 Robert Torrell Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
60 The Resurrected Skull Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
61 The Grey Horror Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
62 Nocturne Macabre Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
63 Black October Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
64 The White Huntress Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
65 The Silent Houses Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
66 Rehearsal Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
67 The Cold Corridors Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
68 The Chestnut Roasters Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
69 Riddle Joseph Payne Brennan Poem