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Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

August Derleth

First published 1961
Publisher Arkham House
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Gary Gore
Pages xix+236
Price $4.00

Anthology of poems by more than 70 poets, including Robert Bloch, Joseph Payne Brennan, Lin Carter, Stanton A. Coblentz, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, August Derleth, Leah Bodine Drake, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Vincent Starrett, Donald Wandrei, and Manly Wade Wellman. No statement of printing or edition. 2026 copies per S.T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Death Is a Little Thing George Abbe Poem
3 You Were at the Dead River George Abbe Poem
4 The Clean Gentleman George Abbe Poem
5 The Step Mother Helen Adam Poem
7 The Fair Young Wife Helen Adam Poem
10 An Exceeding Great Army Ethan Ayer Poem
11 Edgar Allan Poe Robert H. Barlow Poem
11 Shub-Ad Robert H. Barlow Poem
12 Warning to Snake-Killers Robert H. Barlow Poem
13 Mythological Episode Robert H. Barlow Poem
13 The Panther Possible William D. Barney Poem
14 The Gourd-Heads William D. Barney Poem
16 In the Beginninging William D. Barney Poem
17 Lament for Better or Worse Gene Baro Poem
18 Top Hat and Tales Lorna Beers Poem
19 "Soft Sell" Lorna Beers Poem
19 The Rowers Laura Benét Poem
20 Babylon Laura Benét Poem
21 A Lincolnshire Tale John Betjeman Poem
24 Nightmare Number Four Robert Bloch Poem
29 This Here Is Hell Samuel M. Bradley Poem
30 Roc's Brood Samuel M. Bradley Poem
31 One Day of Rain Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
32 Ghost-Town Saloon: Winter Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
32 The Humming Stair Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
33 Recognition of Death Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
33 The Scythe of Dreams Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
34 The Chestnut Roasters Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
35 The Man I Met Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
35 The Serpent Waits Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
36 Grandfather's Ghost Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
36 The Last Pagan Mourns for Dark Rosaleen Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
37 Ossian Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
37 The Wind of Time Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
38 Avery Anameer Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
39 Nightmare Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
40 Mr. Ripley Parodies Mr. Nash—or Vice Versa Julian Brown Poem
41 Opening Door Winifred Adams Burr Poem
42 Ghosts Winifred Adams Burr Poem
43 Grand Finale Sara King Carleton Poem
44 Lunae Custodiens Lin Carter Poem
46 The Dream-Daemon Lin Carter Poem
47 Carcosa Lin Carter Poem
47 The Sabbat Lin Carter Poem
48 Dark Yuggoth Lin Carter Poem
48 Semi-Private Mabel MacDonald Carver Poem
49 Addict Mabel MacDonald Carver Poem
50 Sorceress Gertrude Claytor Poem
50 The Stair Gertrude Claytor Poem
52 Empty House Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
52 Green Woods Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
53 The Wind Shrieked Loud Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
54 Murder House Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
55 Daniel Webster's Horses Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
56 Atlantis Stanton A. Coblentz Poem
57 The Watcher Stanton A. Coblentz Poem
58 The High Place at Marib Grant Code Poem
60 News of My Friends Grant Code Poem
61 Highway to Nowhere Grant Code Poem
62 Playground of the Pixie Grant Code Poem
62 The Night Refuses a Dreamer Grant Code Poem
64 Ballad of Two Kings Grant Code Poem
64 Foreboding Grant Code Poem
65 Building of Sand Grant Code Poem
66 Nos Moraturi Te Salutamus Grant Code Poem
66 Prayer in Blackout Grant Code Poem
67 Epitaph for a Wooden Soldier Grant Code Poem
68 2000 A.D. Beverly Connelly Poem
68 Room in Darkness Mary Elizabeth Counselman Poem
68 Testimony Beverly Connelly Poem
69 Country Lane Margaret Stanion Darling Poem
70 Downgoing Gustav Davidson Poem
70 From Nothing Strange Gustav Davidson Poem
71 Ambushed by Angels Gustav Davidson Poem
72 Moon and Fog August Derleth Poem
72 Place-Ghost August Derleth Poem
73 Invisible Painter Alfred Dorn Poem
74 Dark Hotel Alfred Dorn Poem
74 Reversions Alfred Dorn Poem
75 The Woods Grow Darker Leah Bodine Drake Poem
76 A Warning to Skeptics Leah Bodine Drake Poem
77 The Pool Leah Bodine Drake Poem
78 The Word of Willow Leah Bodine Drake Poem
79 The Gods of the Dana Leah Bodine Drake Poem
80 The Witches Leah Bodine Drake Poem
82 Inbound Burnham Eaton Poem
82 The Unexplored Burnham Eaton Poem
83 Shadowed Burnham Eaton Poem
84 Lost Voice on this Hill Burnham Eaton Poem
85 Tropes of One Season Charles Edward Eaton Poem
89 Unicorns at Harvard Norma Farber Poem
91 Parkinson and the Octopus Norma Farber Poem
91 Witching Hour Norma Farber Poem
94 Brief Biography Marguerite George Poem
94 Paneled in Pine Marguerite George Poem
95 Here I Lie Marguerite George Poem
96 They Know Ryah Tumarkin Goodman Poem
97 Tenant Frances Angevine Gray Poem
98 Otherwhere Frances Angevine Gray Poem
98 Tapers Frances Angevine Gray Poem
99 Devil Doll Lisa Grenelle Poem
100 Nightmare R. H. Grenville Poem
101 Ghost R. H. Grenville Poem
101 Intuition R. H. Grenville Poem
102 Borderline R. H. Grenville Poem
102 The Brothers Amy Groesbeck Short Story
107 The Sands of Time Robert E. Howard Poem
108 Earth-Born Robert E. Howard Poem
109 Arachnida, Female Aletha Humphreys Poem
109 Party Bid Aletha Humphreys Poem
110 Keep Darkness Leslie Nelson Jennings Poem
110 The Yellow Cat Leslie Nelson Jennings Poem
112 A Winter Legend Geoffrey Johnson Poem
113 250 Willow Lane Joseph Joel Keith Poem
114 Bedtime Tales Joseph Joel Keith Poem
115 Child Wife Joseph Joel Keith Poem
115 Mr. Lerner Joseph Joel Keith Poem
116 Flogged Child Joseph Joel Keith Poem
116 Woman Telephoning Joseph Joel Keith Poem
117 Sunday Edition Joseph Joel Keith Poem
118 Salems of Oppression Joseph Joel Keith Poem
118 Wolf and Tiger Dining, A. B. Joseph Joel Keith Poem
119 Old Meg of Kitrann Joseph Joel Keith Poem
119 Party Line Joseph Joel Keith Poem
120 Nightmare in Morganza Joseph Joel Keith Poem
123 Herbs and Simples Martha Keller Poem
123 Wilderness Road Martha Keller Poem
124 One of the Sidhe Mary Kennedy Poem
126 Prenatal Fantasy Walter H. Kerr Poem
127 The Hanged Thing Walter H. Kerr Poem
127 Vampire Walter H. Kerr Poem
128 The Stone Walter H. Kerr Poem
128 Trap Walter H. Kerr Poem
129 Evocation Herman Stowell King Poem
130 Adjuration Frank Belknap Long Poem
130 Erda Vera Bishop Konrick Poem
131 The New Adam Frank Belknap Long Poem
132 It Is Not Only the Dead Frank Belknap Long Poem
133 No Escape Lilith Lorraine Poem
133 Since We Are Property Lilith Lorraine Poem
134 Case History Lilith Lorraine Poem
134 It May Be Like This Lilith Lorraine Poem
135 Legend of the Hills Lilith Lorraine Poem
136 Nightmare Anne Marx Poem
136 Pause Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Poem
137 Elsie's House Stanley McNail Poem
138 Lottie Mae Stanley McNail Poem
138 The Secrets of Cisterns Stanley McNail Poem
139 The House on Maple Hill Stanley McNail Poem
140 The Witch Stanley McNail Poem
141 Part-Time Tenant Edna Meudt Poem
142 Second Sight H. S. Neill Poem
143 Aunt Jane Alden A. Nowlan Poem
143 Musings of an Insomniac Edith Ogutsch Poem
144 Legend of Ramapo Mountain Jennie M. Palen Poem
144 Premonition Edith Ogutsch Poem
148 Dark House in Autumn Conrad Pendleton Poem
149 Jim Desterland Hyam Plutzik Poem
150 Black Spirit Tom Poots Poem
151 House of Life Dorothy Quick Poem
151 The Monster Dorothy Quick Poem
153 The Forest Dorothy Quick Poem
153 Undertone Dorothy Quick Poem
154 Enigma Katherine Reeves Poem
155 Ghosts Alastair Reid Poem
156 All Souls Liboria E. Romano Poem
157 Vendor Raymond Roseliep Poem
158 Professor Nocturnal Raymond Roseliep Poem
160 Black Are the Stars Raymond Roseliep Poem
161 In Time of Darkness Raymond Roseliep Poem
161 Where Roots Tangle Raymond Roseliep Poem
162 The Scissors Grinder Raymond Roseliep Poem
163 Alan Raymond Roseliep Poem
164 GI Raymond Roseliep Poem
164 Tour. In Rain Raymond Roseliep Poem
165 Synchronized Larry Rubin Poem
166 For a Poetry Reading to Which No One Came Larry Rubin Poem
167 Night Peril Sydney King Russell Poem
167 The Druggist Larry Rubin Poem
168 Warning Sydney King Russell Poem
169 The Shape of Fear Sydney King Russell Poem
170 Forecast Sydney King Russell Poem
171 Six Silver Handles Sydney King Russell Poem
172 Perennial Mourner Sydney King Russell Poem
173 Spectre Sydney King Russell Poem
174 Danse Macabre Antonia Y. Schwab Poem
175 House of Yesterday Walter Shedlofsky Poem
175 Prophecy Walter Shedlofsky Poem
176 Waltz Ruth Forbes Sherry Poem
177 Deeply Gone Jon Silkin Poem
181 The Lover's Ghost Louis Simpson Poem
182 And the Pear Trees Shiver Jocelyn Macy Sloan Poem
182 Stranger Bride Jocelyn Macy Sloan Poem
183 The Invaders Jocelyn Macy Sloan Poem
184 The Incubus of Time Clark Ashton Smith Poem
184 To the Daemon Sublimity Clark Ashton Smith Poem
185 Memorial Clark Ashton Smith Poem
185 Metaphor Clark Ashton Smith Poem
186 Amor Aeternalis Clark Ashton Smith Poem
186 The Horologe Clark Ashton Smith Poem
187 Femme Fatale Vincent Starrett Poem
187 Romantic Episode Vincent Starrett Poem
188 A Little Night Music Felix Stefanile Poem
188 The Death of Santa Claus Vincent Starrett Poem
189 Praying Mantis Felix Stefanile Poem
190 Vampire Bride Felix Stefanile Poem
191 The Familiar Stranger Felix Stefanile Poem
192 So Separate and Strange Felix Stefanile Poem
193 Hawicks' Crossing Jane Stuart Poem
195 Heart-Summoned Jesse Stuart Poem
195 The Gone Jesse Stuart Poem
196 Spring Voices Jesse Stuart Poem
196 Two Leaves Jesse Stuart Poem
197 Extended Invitation Jesse Stuart Poem
198 Frail Hands Lucia Trent Poem
199 The Seer Lewis Turco Poem
200 Gather These Bones Lewis Turco Poem
205 Oldest Cemetery Mark Van Doren Poem
206 Flight Harold Vinal Poem
207 Ghostly Reaper Harold Vinal Poem
207 Sleeping Village Harold Vinal Poem
208 A Wreath for One Lost Harold Vinal Poem
208 Gentleman in Oils Harold Vinal Poem
209 We, the Few Who Believe Harold Vinal Poem
210 Heimdall Harold Vinal Poem
210 Toward Avernus Harold Vinal Poem
211 The Well-Finder Harold Vinal Poem
211 Water Sprite Donald Wandrei Poem
212 The Woman at the Window Donald Wandrei Poem
213 The Prehistoric Huntsman Donald Wandrei Poem
214 Forest Shapes Donald Wandrei Poem
214 The Challenger Donald Wandrei Poem
215 Lyric of Doubt Donald Wandrei Poem
215 On the Staircase Wade Wellman Poem
216 A Ballad of Despair Wade Wellman Poem
217 Fancy Fishing James L. Weil Poem
218 Companions Margaret Widdemer Poem
219 Ghost to Come Margaret Widdemer Poem
220 The Skeptic Loring Williams Poem
222 Recompense Loring Williams Poem
223 The Ghost James Wright Poem
225 Atavism Elinor Wylie Poem
226 Contributors (Fire and Sleet and Candlelight) uncredited Essay
xix Introduction (Fire and Sleet and Candlelight) August Derleth Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight 1973 Books for Libraries Press Hardcover Anthology xix+236