"The Nightmare Lake" is a poem by the late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft, first published in the December 1919 edition of amateur press publication The Vagrant [1].
Synopsis[]
The poem describes the narrator's dream of a sinister lake which is home to an ancient, sunken city and its monstrous inhabitants.
Publication History[]
(Note: this list is compiled from information found at the H. P. Lovecraft Archive and Internet Speculative Fiction Database [1][2])
- The Vagrant (1919)
- Scienti-Snaps (1940)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1940)
- Collected Poems (1963)
- The World of H. P. Lovecraft (1971)
- Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems (1971)
- Weirdies: A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real (1973, 1975)
- The Fantastic Poetry (1990)
- The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (2001, 2013)
- Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre (2011, 2020)
- Complete Collection of H. P. Lovecraft (2014)
- To a Dreamer: Best Poems of H. P. Lovecraft (2019)
- Songs of Giants: The Poetry of Pulp (2019)
- Essais - Correspondance - Poésie - Révisions (2021)
- Intégrale (2021)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Data Page for "The Nightmare Lake" at the H. P. Lovecraft Archive
- ↑ Title: "The Nightmare Lake" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database