Yonder is the second anthology

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 of short stories

Short story

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 by Charles Beaumont

Charles Beaumont

Charles Beaumont was a prolific American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Miniature", and "Printer's Devil", but also penned the...

, published in April of 1958

1958 in literature

The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.*First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published....

. The volume is out of print, but reasonably available.

Stories collected

Title	Originally published in
"You Can't Have Them All"	August 1956 issue of Playboy
"Fritzchen"	1953 (#1) issue of Orbit
"Last Rites"	October 1955 issue of If If (magazine) If was an American science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn. Quinn hired Paul W. Fairman to be the first editor, but early circulation figures were disappointing, and Quinn fired Fairman after only three issues. Quinn then took over the...
"Place of Meeting"	1953 (#2) 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"A World of Differents"	Previously unpublished
"Anthem"	Previously unpublished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 Imagination (magazine) Imagination was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in October 1950 by Raymond Palmer's Clark Publishing Company. The magazine was sold almost immediately to Greenleaf Publishing Company, owned by William Hamling, who published and edited it from the third issue,...
"The Jungle"	December 1954 issue of If If (magazine) If was an American science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn. Quinn hired Paul W. Fairman to be the first editor, but early circulation figures were disappointing, and Quinn fired Fairman after only three issues. Quinn then took over the...
"The Quadriopticon"	August 1954 issue of F&SF
"Hair of the Dog"	July 1954 (Orbit #3) issue of Orbit
"The Beautiful People"	September 1952 issue of If If (magazine) If was an American science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn. Quinn hired Paul W. Fairman to be the first editor, but early circulation figures were disappointing, and Quinn fired Fairman after only three issues. Quinn then took over the...
"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

Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...

 found the stories in Yonder to have been better chosen than those in Beaumont's first collection, The Hunger and Other Stories

The Hunger and Other Stories

The Hunger and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories by Charles Beaumont, published in April of 1957. A British edition was published in 1964 under the title Shadow Play...

; he praised the book as "grotesque, sensitive, funny, horrible -- in short, Beaumontesque, and strongly recommended."