Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

Fire and Sleet and Candlelight was a poetry anthology edited by August Derleth, and published in 1961 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,026 copies. The title was suggested to Derleth by Lin Carter and is taken from the Lyke-Wake Dirge. For this companion volume to Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, Derleth included only living poets or poems that had not been previously published.

Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
Dust-jacket illustration by Gary Gore for Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
Authoredited by August Derleth
Cover artistGary Gore
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy, horror, speculative poetry
PublisherArkham House
Publication date
1961
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pagesxix, 236 pp

Reprints edit

  • Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1973.

References edit

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 56–57. 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. pp. 37–38.
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 70–75. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 81–84. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.