 Dust-jacket from the first edition. | |
| Editor | August Derleth |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror |
| Publisher | Pellegrini & Cudahy |
Publication date | 1947 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | vi, 518 |
The Sleeping and the Dead is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by American writer August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1947. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines The London Mercury, Weird Tales, Scribner's, Dublin University Magazine, Unknown, Esquire, The Bellman, Vanity Fair and Black Mask. An abridged edition (15 stories) was published by Four Square Books in 1963 under the same title.