About John Collier
John Collier wrote numerous plays, poems, novels, and short stories-many of which appeared in the New Yorker-and contributed to the screenplay of The African Queen. He received the Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1951 and the International Fantasy Award in 1952.
Novels
His Monkey Wife: or Married to a Chimp (1930)
No Traveller Returns (1931)
Tom's a Cold (1933)
Defy the Foul Fiend: or The Misadventures of a Heart (1934)
Variation on a Theme (1935)
Witch's Money (1940)
No Traveller Returns (1931)
Tom's a Cold (1933)
Defy the Foul Fiend: or The Misadventures of a Heart (1934)
Variation on a Theme (1935)
Witch's Money (1940)
Collections
Gemini: Poems (poems) (1931)
Green Thoughts (1932)
The Devil and All (1934)
Presenting Moonshine (1941)
The Touch of Nutmeg: And More Unlikely Stories (1943)
Fancies and Goodnights (1951)
Pictures in the Fire (1958)
Of Demons and Darkness (1961)
The John Collier Reader (1972)
Avon Bedside Companion (1977) (with Paul Eldridge, Eric Knight, John O'Hara and Dorothy Parker)
Green Thoughts (1932)
The Devil and All (1934)
Presenting Moonshine (1941)
The Touch of Nutmeg: And More Unlikely Stories (1943)
Fancies and Goodnights (1951)
Pictures in the Fire (1958)
Of Demons and Darkness (1961)
The John Collier Reader (1972)
Avon Bedside Companion (1977) (with Paul Eldridge, Eric Knight, John O'Hara and Dorothy Parker)
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by John Collier
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1960)
Best Fantasy Stories (1962)
Best Tales of Terror (1962)
Stories of Suspense (1963)
The 6th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1965)
Best Horror Stories 2 (1965)
A Chamber of Horrors (1965)
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (1967)
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
Eleven Great Horror Stories (1969)
The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
The Golden Road (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
Roots of Evil (1976)
aka Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants
More of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1976)
The Master's Choice Book 1 (1979)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
Black Water (1983)
Magic for Sale (1983)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1960)
Best Fantasy Stories (1962)
Best Tales of Terror (1962)
Stories of Suspense (1963)
The 6th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1965)
Best Horror Stories 2 (1965)
A Chamber of Horrors (1965)
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (1967)
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
Eleven Great Horror Stories (1969)
The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
The Golden Road (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
Roots of Evil (1976)
aka Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants
More of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1976)
The Master's Choice Book 1 (1979)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
Black Water (1983)
Magic for Sale (1983)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
Short stories
| Ah the University | |||
| Another American Tragedy | |||
| Back for Christmas | |||
| Bird of Prey | |||
| The Chaser | |||
| Collaboration | |||
| De Mortuis... | |||
| The Frog Prince | |||
| Great Possibilities | |||
| If Youth Knew If Age Could | |||
| The Invisible Dove-Dancer of Strathpheen Island | |||
| Little Memento | |||
| Mary | |||
| Night! Youth! Paris! And the Moon! | |||
| Old Aquaintance | |||
| Over Insurance | |||
| Romance Lingers Adventure Lives | |||
| Season of Mists | |||
| Sleeping Beauty | |||
| Special Delivery | |||
| Squirrels Have Bright Eyes | |||
| The Tender Age | |||
| Three Bears Cottage | |||
| The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It | |||
| Wet Saturday | |||
| Without Benefit of Galsworthy | |||
| Green Thoughts [short story] (1931) | |||
| The Devil, George and Rosie (1934) | |||
| Halfway to Hell (1934) | |||
| Hell Hath No Fury (1934) | |||
| The Right (1934) | |||
| The Right Side (1934) | |||
| Variation on a Theme [short story] (1935) | |||
| Bottle Party (1939) | |||
| Evening Primrose (1940) | |||
| Thus I Refute Beelzy (1940) | |||
| Witch's Money [short story] (1940) | |||
| The Possession of Angela Bradshaw (1941) | |||
| Rope Enough (1941) | |||
| Meeting of Relations (1942) | |||
| Midnight Blue (1943) | |||
| Gavin O'Leary (1945) | |||
| Are You Too Late Or was I Too Early (1951) | |||
| Fallen Star (1951) | |||
| The Lady on the Grey (1951) | |||
| Pictures in the Fire [short story] (1951) | |||
| Incident on a Lake (1958) | |||
| Man Overboard (1960) | |||
| Softly Walks the Beetle (1960) |
Awards
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