Asleep in Armageddon is alternately titled, Perchance to Dream. The story was first published in Planet Stories (1948), and reprinted in Avon Fantasy Reader #11 (1949).┬а
A spaceship crashes on an uninhabited planet, but the pilot survives and requests help, which is expected in six days. The moment he falls asleep, he becomes possessed by some of the warlike people who previously lived there, and who wiped out the planetтАЩs sentient beings. He hears the voices of тАЬTyle of Rathalar, Tyle of the Blood Mound and the Death DrumтАЭ, and of тАЬIorr of Wendillo, destroyer of infidelsтАЭ, followed by a chanting chorus of warriors.┬а
This is a science fiction story which incorporates elements of psychological horror.
Notable works:┬а
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Illustrated Man