Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares

Jacket illustration by Gary Gore.
Author	Robert Bloch
Cover artist	Gary Gore
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy,horror
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1960
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	233

Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares is a collection offantasy andhorrorshort stories by American writerRobert Bloch. It was released in1960 and was the author's second book published byArkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,060 copies.

The stories originally appeared in several magazines between1946 and1958. The collection includes Bloch's1959Hugo Award winning story, "That Hell-Bound Train".

Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares contains the following tales:

1. "Sweets to the Sweet"
2. "The Dream-Makers"
3. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
4. "I Kiss Your Shadow"
5. "Mr. Steinway"
6. "The Proper Spirit"
7. "Catnip"
8. "The Cheaters"
9. "Hungarian Rhapsody"
10. "The Lighthouse" (withEdgar Allan Poe)
11. "The Hungry House"
12. "The Sleeping Beauty"
13. "Sweet Sixteen"
14. "That Hell-Bound Train"
15. "Enoch"

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989).The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 54.ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998).The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 37.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999).Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 68–69.ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004).Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 80.ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

• 1960 short story collections
• Fantasy short story collections
• Horror short story collections
• Short story collections by Robert Bloch
• Arkham House books
• Witchcraft in written fiction

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