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  JOHN COLLIER
b.1901 d.1980
A British author, Collier is perhaps best-known for his clever short fantasies and twist-in-the-tail stories. The novel His Monkey Wife was very highly regarded.
 
Novels
His Monkey Wife; or, Married to a Chimp, Davies, 1930
ditto, Appleton (U.S.), 1931
 
No Traveller Returns, White Owl Press, 1931
 
Tom's A-Cold: A Tale, Macmillan, 1933
ditto, as Full Circle, Appleton (U.S.), 1933
 
Defy the Foul Fiend; or, The Misadventures of a Heart, Macmillan, 1934
ditto, Knopf (U.S.), 1934
 
Short Stories
An Epistle to a Friend, Ulysses Press, 1932
(Including: "An Epistle to a Friend".)
 
Green Thoughts, William Jackson, 1932 (550 signed copies)
 (Including: "Green Thoughts".)
 
The Devil and All, Nonesuch Press, 1934 (1,000 signed, numbered copies)
(Including: "Possession of Angela Bradshaw", "The Right Side", "Halfway to Hell", "After the Ball", "The Devil, George and Rosie", "Hell Hath No Fury".)
 
Variation on a Theme, Grayson & Grayson, 1935 (285 signed copies)
 (Including: "Variation on a Theme".)
 
Witch's Money, Viking Press (U.S.), 1940 (350 signed copies, tissue d/w)
 (Including: "Witch's Money".)
 
Presenting Moonshine, Viking (U.S.), 1941
(including: "Another American Tragedy", "Bird of Prey", "Bottle Party", "The Chaser", "Collaboration", "The Devil, George, and Rosie", "Evening Primrose", "Frog Prince", "Green Thoughts", "Halfway to Hell", "If Youth Knew If Age Could", "The Invisible Dove-Dancer of Strathpeen Island" "Mary", "Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon", "Old Acquaintance", "Possession of Angela Bradshaw", "Right Side", "Rope Enough", "Sleeping Beauty", "Special Delivery", "Squirrels Have Bright Eyes", "Thus I Refute Beelzy", "Variation on a Theme", "Witch's Money".)
 
ditto, Macmillan, 1941
 
The Touch of Nutmeg, and More Unlikely Stories, The Readers Club (U.S.), 1943
(Including: "After the Ball", "Ah, the University", "Another American Tragedy", "Back for Christmas", "Bird of Prey", "The Chaser", "De Mortuis", "The Devil, George, and Rosie", "Evening Primrose", "Frog Prince", "Great Possibilities", "Green Thoughts", "Halfway to Hell", "Hell Hath No Fury", "Little Memento", "Mary", "Midnight Blue", "Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon", "Old Acquaintance", "Possession of Angela Bradshaw", "Right Side", "Rope Enough", "Thus I Refute Beelzy", "The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It", "Variations on a Theme", "Wet Saturday".)
 
Fancies and Goodnights, Doubleday (U.S.), 1951
(Including: "Bottle Party", De Mortuis", "Evening Primrose" "Witch's Money", "Are You Too Late, Or Was I Too Early?", "Fallen Star", "The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It", "Three Bears Cottage", "Pictures in the Fire", "Wet Saturday", "Squirrels Have Bright Eyes", "Halfway to Hell", "The Lady on the Grey", "Incident on a Lake", "Over Insurance", "Old Acquaintance", "The Frog Prince", "Season Mists", "Great Possibilities", "With out Benefit of Galsworthy", "The Devil, George, and Rosie", "Ah, the University", "Back for Christmas", "Another American Tragedy", "Collaboration", "Midnight Blue", "Gavin O'Leary", "If Youth Knew If Age Could", "Thus I Refute Beelzy", "Special Delivery", "Rope Enough", "Little Memento", "Green Thoughts", "Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives", "Bird of Prey", "Variation on a Theme", "Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon", "The Steel Cat", "Sleeping Beauty", "Interpretations of a Dream", "Mary", "Hell Hath No Fury", "In the Cards", "The Invisible Dove-Dancer of Strathpeen Island", "The Right Side", "Spring Fever", "Youth From Vienna ', "Possession of Angela Bradshaw", "Cancel All I Said" "The Chaser".)
ditto, as Of Demons and Darkness, Corgi, 1965 (abridged, wraps)
 
Pictures in the Fire, Hart-Davis, 1958
(Including: "Interpretation of a Dream", "And Who, With Eden. . .", "Little Memento", "Are You Too Late, or Was I Too Early?", "Think No Evil", "Incident on a Lake", "Old Acquaintance", "Mademoiselle Kiki", "Without Benefit of Galsworthy", "Spring Fever", "Back for Christmas", "Pictures in the Fire", "Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives", "The Steel Cat", "In the Cards", "Wet Saturday", "Season of Mists", "Over Insurance", "Dc Mortuis", "Ah, the University", "Three Bears Cottage", "Gavin O'Leary", "The Tender Age".)
 
Collected Edition
The John Collier Reader, Knopf (U.S.), 1972
ditto, Souvenir Press, 1975
 
 Further Reading
Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction, by Lloyd Currey, Rb Publishing, 2002 (cd rom.)
 
 
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