Strange Glory ed. Gerry Goldberg (McClelland & Stewart, 1975, 152pp, hc, an)
A compendium of stories, artwork (mostly by Virgil Finlay) and quotations aimed at providing an insight into the strange world about us. The book was marginally revised for US publication (St. Martin’s Press, 0-312-76-387-5, 1977) from which details have been taken. Only the main features from this book are indexed.
- 6 · Introduction · Gerry Goldberg · in
- 12 · The Theogony · Hesiod · ex (r)
- 13 · Midnight · Archibald Lampman · pm Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman, J. Durie & Son, 1888
- 14 · When the Waters Were Changed · Idries Shah · vi (r)
- 15 · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · Harlan Ellison · ss Bad Moon Rising ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper & Row, 1973
- 20 · The Fear · Andrew Young · pm (r)
- 26 · All the Trees Coloured Were · Joy Kogawa · pm (r)
- 27 · The Door · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker March 25 1939
- 30 · Minotaur · Michael Ayrton · pm (r)
- 30 · The Trap · Jon Stallworthy · pm (r)
- 31 · Antichrist as a Child · James Reaney · pm The Red Heart by James Reaney, McClelland & Stewart, 1949
- 31 · Paranoid · P. K. Page · pm 1974
- 32 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926
- 35 · The Kraken · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems Chiefly Lyrical by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Effingham Wilson, 1830
- 36 · In a Dark Time · Theodore Roethke · pm The New Yorker January 16 1960
- 39 · On Seeing · Dorothy Livesay · pm 1972
- 39 · Waiting · Joy Kogawa · pm (r)
- 39 · The Weed of Time · Norman Spinrad · ss Alchemy and Academe ed. Anne McCaffrey, Doubleday, 1970
- 46 · The Shell · James Stephens · pm 1916
- 46 · Noise · Jack Vance · ss Startling Stories August 1952
- 53 · The Tale of the Sands · Idries Shah · vi (r)
- 54 · The Awakening · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Future Science Fiction Stories January 1952
revised from Zenith, February 1942.
- 56 · Winter Evening · Archibald Lampman · pm Scribner’s Magazine December 1888
- 58 · The Man Who Was Put in a Cage · Rollo May · ss 1953
- 60 · Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey · William Wordsworth · pm Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
- 64 · Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself · Wallace Stevens · pm 1954
- 67 · Dwarf Trees · Joy Kogawa · pm (r)
- 67 · Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination · Wallace Stevens · pm 1957
- 68 · Hush! · Zenna Henderson · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction November 1953
- 74 · Summer · John Ashbery · pm (r)
- 75 · The Hounds of Tindalos [Cthulhu] · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales March 1929
- 83 · The Senoi Dream People · Kilton Stewart · ar (r)
- 84 · Flower Arranger · Joy Kogawa · pm (r)
- 87 · Connoisseur of Chaos · Wallace Stevens · pm 1942
- 87 · Applelore · Judy Stonehill · pm Analecta Winter 1968
- 88 · The Street · Octavio Paz · pm 1963
- 88 · The Circular Ruins · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“Las ruinas circulares”, Sur, December 1940).
- 91 · The Man Who Loved the Faioli · Roger Zelazny · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1967
- 96 · Design · Robert Frost · pm A Further Range by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1936
- 96 · Recognition · Mark Rudman · pm Harper’s Magazine January 1970
- 96 · The Second Coming · W. B. Yeats · pm The Dial November 1920
- 97 · Nine Lives · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Playboy November 1969
- 110 · The Bride of Frankenstein · Edward Field · pm 1967
- 112 · The Baffling Burning Death · Allan W. Eckert · ar (r)
- 113 · Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 115 · Storm · Jay Macpherson · pm (r)
- 116 · Yoke and Star · José Marti · pm (r)
- 116 · Elijah Browning · Edgar Lee Masters · pm (r)
- 119 · Miracles · Walt Whitman · pm Leaves of Grass (Second Edition) by Walt Whitman, self-published, 1856, as “Poem of Perfect Miracles”
- 120 · Cinderella · Sandra McPherson · pm 1973
- 120 · Lirazel Blows Away · Lord Dunsany · ex from The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Putnam, 1924
- 122 · The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me · Delmore Schwartz · pm 1938
- 122 · The Inward Angel · Jay Macpherson · pm (r)
- 124 · Tattoo · Wallace Stevens · pm 1923
- 126 · The Funnel of God · Robert Bloch · nv Fantastic Science Fiction Stories January 1960
- 140 · Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633
- 140 · Evensong · Lester del Rey · ss Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1967
- 142 · Vestigia · Bliss Carman · pm Harper’s Magazine September 1921
- 144 · Within the Pyramid · R. DeWitt Miller · ss Astounding Stories March 1937
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