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Author:Robert Bloch
Title:Pleasant Dreams
Subtitle:Nightmare
Publisher:  Arkham House
Country:USA
Date:1960
Format:Hardcover
Genre:Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Total Editions:2
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ppint.
13th Jan 2018
 title is "pleasant dreams: nightmares by robert bloch" splitting ''title: sub-title'' per title page (and dust-jacket)

it will ^W also sorts together with the uk h/cvr now both split the title in like manner

collection of twelve short stories and three novelettes

cover (dust-jacket) art by gary gore (credited on d-j front flap)
cover price $4.00
240pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp.
bound with endpapers between covered boards
 

 
ppint.
27th Mar 2021
 contributor's entered title was misleading; ''pleasant dreams: nightmares by robert bloch'' would^W be^W is a more accurate rendering, splitting into title: sub-title.

it also sorts together with the first edition now both titles are split in like manner.

first uk edition: first edition is the arkham house (1960) merkin h/cvr

cover (d-j) art (?)
cover (d-j) price 21/-
240pp? including titles, indica etc.
bound with endpapers between covered boards

horror collection of three novelettes and twelve short stories, some horror fantasy
contents:

sweets to the sweet (short story) weird tales vol.39 #10, 3/1947 (weird tales canada vol.38 #4, 5/1947)
the dream makers (novelette) beyond vol.1 #2, 9/1953 (beyond bre vol.1 #2, 3/1954)
the sorcerer's apprentice (ss) weird tales vol.41 #2, 1/1949
i kiss your shadow-- (ss) the magazine of fantasy & science fiction (f&sf) vol.10 #4, 4/1956
mr. steinway (ss) fantastic vol.3 #2, 4/1954 (fantastic bre vol.1 #4, 6/1954)
the proper spirit (ss) f&sf vol.12 #3, 3/1957
catnip (ss) weird tales vol.40 #3, 3/1948
the cheaters (ntte) weird tales vol.40 #1, 11/1947
hungarian rhapsody (ss) fantastic vol.7 #6, 6/1958
the light-house (ss) fantastic vol.2 #1, 1/1953 (sans hyphenation) robert bloch & edgar allen poe
the hungry house (ntte) imagination vol.2 #2, 4/1951
sleeping beauty (ss) swank, 3/1958 (as ''the sleeping redheads'')
sweet sixteen (ss) fantastic vol.7 #5, 5/1958 (as ''spawn of the dark one'')
that hell-bound train (ss) f&sf vol.15 #3, 9/1958
enoch (ss) weird tales vol.39 #7, 9/1946

''that hell-bound train'' won a hugo award for best short story in 1958
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Robert Bloch - Pleasant Dreams - Whiting And Wheaton - Hardcover - UK (1967)

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