Something Breathing
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 Jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Something Breathing |
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| Author | Stanley McNail |
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| Cover artist | Frank Utpatel |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | poetry |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
| Released | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 44 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
Something Breathing is a collection of poems by Stanley McNail. It was released in 1965 by Arkham House in an edition of 500 copies. It was the author's only book to be published by Arkham House. The book was printed in England by Villiers for Arkham House and is bound in green cloth rather than the distinctive gold printing on black binding of most Arkham House pubications.
[edit] Contents
Something Breathing contains the following poems:
- "What the Voice Said"
- "Metamorphoses"
- "Lines to an Unbeliever"
- "Dark Counsel"
- "The Sounds She Knew"
- "The Feast"
- "Night Things"
- "Who Goes There?"
- "After the Rites"
- "Three Sisters"
- "Lights Along the Road"
- "The Broken Wall"
- "Merlin's Robe"
- "Lottie Mae"
- "The Gray People"
- "The Covered Bridge"
- "Miss Pinnie's Clothes"
- "The Tall, Spare Summer"
- "Nobody Knows Where Mary Went"
- "The Red Beard of Fascinus"
- "Dialogue"
- "Elsie's House"
- "The Witch-Mark"
- "Follow the Wind"
- "The Secrets of Cisterns"
- "These Antlers"
- "Old Black Billygoat"
- "The Witch"
- "Watson's Landing"
- "A Note from Mother"
- "The House on Maple Hill"
- "Uncle Charlie"
[edit] Reprints
Berkely: Embassy Hall Editions, 1987 (with added poems).
[edit] References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 80. 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., 43.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 92. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 96. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
