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Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

Dust-jacket illustration by Smith-Wollin Studios and Frank Utpatel for Dark of the Moon
Author	edited by August Derleth
Cover artist	Smith-Wollin Studios and Frank Utpatel
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	fantasy, horror, poetry
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1947
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xvi, 418
OCLC	1298843

Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre is a poetry anthology edited by August Derleth and published in 1947 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,634 copies.^[1] It is a pioneering^[2] anthology of weird poetry from the Middle Ages to the present, arranged chronologically.^[3]

A publishing curiosity is that this book had two different dustjackets – the only Arkham House book to have this feature. Both states of the jacket feature a background photograph of a mountain, although on the two jackets the image is reversed as compared with each other. The first-state jacket has lettering in green, whereas the second state jacket is lettered in orange and white. The jacket with the green lettering is the first state of the dustjacket (pictured right). Its lettering was rendered by Wisconsin artist Frank Utpatel. This state is the rarer of the two jackets, since a large number of the Utpatel jackets were destroyed by silverfish during storage. The second state dustjacket (orange and white lettering) was redesigned by Gary Gore, who from 1959 on, became increasingly more active in working with August Derleth on Arkham House covers.^[4]

Poets included

• William Blake


• Robert Burns


• James Hogg


• Sir Walter Scott


• Samuel Taylor Coleridge


• Thomas Moore


• Richard Harris Barham


• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


• John Keats


• Thomas Lovell Beddoes


• Rabbi Ben Levi


• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


• Edgar Allan Poe


• Alfred, Lord Tennyson


• William Bell Scott


• J. Sheridan Le Fanu


• Charles Kingsley


• Sidney Thompson Dobell


• William Allingham


• Charles Godfrey Leland


• Fitz-James O'Brien


• Dante Gabriel Rossetti


• James Thomson


• William Morris


• Richard Garnett


• Robert Buchanan


• Christina Rossetti


• A.P. Graves


• James Whitcomb Riley


• Lizette Woodworth Reese


• A. E. Housman


• José Asunción Silva


• Dora Sigerson Shorter


• Edwin Arlington Robinson


• Arthur Guiterman


• Walter de la Mare


• Amy Lowell


• Robert Frost


• Josephine Daskam Bacon


• Joyce Kilmer


• William Rose Benet


• Vincent Starrett


• Roy Helton


• H. P. Lovecraft


• Robert P. Tristam Coffin


• Clark Ashton Smith


• Timeus Gaylord


• Mark Van Doren


• Arthur Inman


• Stephen Vincent Benet


• Frank Belknap Long


• Yetza Gillespie


• Francis Flagg


• Dorothy Quick


• Robert E. Howard


• Donald Wandrei


• August Derleth


• Anthony Boucher


• Byron Herbert Reece


• Duane W. Rimel


• Mary Elizabeth Counselman


• Leah Bodine Drake


• Harvey Wagner Flink


• Coleman Rosenberger

Publication history

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  OCLC 1298843, Pub date 1947, Hardback


• 1969, US, Books for Libraries Press
  ISBN 0-8369-6056-4, Pub date 1969


• 1976, US, Granger
  OCLC 2565352, Pub date 1976

Notes

References

• 
  Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 24–25. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
  


• 
  Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998. Westminster, Maryland and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 30–31.
  


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  Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House. pp. 38–42. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
  


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  Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 61–63. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.