Yonder (collection)


Yonder is the second anthology of short stories by American writer Charles Beaumont, published in April 1958.

Stories collected

TitleOriginally published in
"You Can't Have Them All"August 1956 issue of Playboy
"Fritzchen"1953 issue of Orbit
"Last Rites"October 1955 issue of If
"Place of Meeting"1953 issue of Orbit
"A World of Differents"Previously unpublished
"Anthem"Previously unpublished
"In His Image" / "The Man Who Made Himself"February 1957 issue of Imagination
"The Jungle"December 1954 issue of If
"The Quadriopticon"August 1954 issue of F&SF
"Hair of the Dog"July 1954 issue of Orbit
"The Beautiful People"September 1952 issue of If
"The Last Caper"March 1954 issue of F&SF
"Mother's Day"Previously unpublished
"Traumerei"February 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction
"The Monster Show"May 1956 issue of Playboy
"The New Sound"June 1955 issue of F&SF

Reception

found the stories in Yonder to have been better chosen than those in Beaumont's first collection, The Hunger and Other Stories; he praised the book as "grotesque, sensitive, funny, horrible -- in short, Beaumontesque, and strongly recommended."