In the House of Night: A Dream Reader

by Chris Navratil (Editor)

As dreams envelop the dreamer in their surreal landscape, "In the House of Night "lures readers into a magical literary and psychological journey. Memoir, diary, fiction, poetry, essay, and dream analysis blend in this enchanting exploration filled with the nocturnal rambles of dozens of favorite writers. An ideal bedside companion, this is the sort of anthology one wants to read straight through.

Authors included in this collection include:

Margaret Atwood; Pat Barker; Donald Barthelme; Ingmar Bergman;
Elizabeth Bishop; Jorge Luis Borges; John Cheever;
Jean Cocteau; Julio Cortázar; Joan Didion; Fyodor Dostoevsky;
Stanley Elkin; M.F.K. Fisher; Gabriel García Márquez;
Allen Ginsberg; Graham Greene; James Hillman; C.G.Jung;
Franz Kafka; Philip Larkin; Doris Lessing; C.S.Lewis;
Archibald MacLeish; James Merrill; Haruki Murakami;
V. S. Naipaul; Edna O'Brien; Octavio Paz; Katherine Anne Porter; Reynolds Price; J.B. Priestley; Theodore Roethke;
Philip Roth; D.M. Thomas; William Trevor; John Updike;
John Wideman; Edmund Wilson; Virginia Woolf

226 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1997

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting collection of dream-related literature by a diverse group of authors. In the introduction, the editor shares that he experienced the loss of both parents within a month of each other, and mentions how this event affected the nature of his dreams. A deep interest in his own dreams led him to an extensive study of the subject and an examination of how writers use dreams in their works. A fascinating anthology.