John Collier

114 books

Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer

Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment

Masterpieces of Fantasy #1

David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer

622 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

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Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny by Elizabeth Bowen, L.P. Hartley, Joan Kessler, M.R. James, Robert Graves, John Collier, Robert Aickman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramsey Campbell, Truman Capote, Hortense Calisher, Alison Lurie, William Trevor, Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury

Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny

Elizabeth Bowen, L.P. Hartley, Joan Kessler, M.R. James, Robert Graves, John Collier, Robert Aickman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramsey Campbell, Truman Capote, Hortense Calisher, Alison Lurie, William Trevor, Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury

305 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

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Seaserpents! by John Collier, Manly Wade Wellman, Marvin Kaye, L. Sprague de Camp, Gordon R. Dickson, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Roger Zelazny, Lillian Stewart Carl, Charles Sheffield, Larry Niven, Sterling E. Lanier

Seaserpents!

John Collier, Manly Wade Wellman, Marvin Kaye, L. Sprague de Camp, Gordon R. Dickson, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Roger Zelazny, Lillian Stewart Carl, Charles Sheffield, Larry Niven, Sterling E. Lanier

226 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

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Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century by Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, Nelson Algren, Peter Taylor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Taylor, A.E. Coppard, John Collier, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Jean Stafford, H.L. Davis, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Conrad Aiken, Elizabeth Parsons, James Joyce, J.F. Powers, Albert Erskine, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, W. Somerset Maugham, Katherine Anne Porter, Saki, William Carlos Williams, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane, Seán Ó Faoláin

Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, Nelson Algren, Peter Taylor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Taylor, A.E. Coppard, John Collier, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Jean Stafford, H.L. Davis, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Conrad Aiken, Elizabeth Parsons, James Joyce, J.F. Powers, Albert Erskine, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, W. Somerset Maugham, Katherine Anne Porter, Saki, William Carlos Williams, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane, Seán Ó Faoláin

528 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

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Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves by Alan Dean Foster, Martin H. Greenberg

Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves

Alan Dean Foster, Martin H. Greenberg

340 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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Some Things Strange and Sinister by Joan Kahn, Neil Bell, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Margaret Irwin, John B.L. Goodwin, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Guy de Maupassant, André Maurois, Louis Golding, H.G. Wells

Some Things Strange and Sinister

Joan Kahn, Neil Bell, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Margaret Irwin, John B.L. Goodwin, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Guy de Maupassant, André Maurois, Louis Golding, H.G. Wells

223 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

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Stories of Suspense by John Collier, Margaret St. Clair, Daniel Keyes, Jack Finney, Roald Dahl, Daphne du Maurier, Mary E. MacEwen, Shirley Jackson, Lord Dunsany

Stories of Suspense

John Collier, Margaret St. Clair, Daniel Keyes, Jack Finney, Roald Dahl, Daphne du Maurier, Mary E. MacEwen, Shirley Jackson, Lord Dunsany

220 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

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Tales to be Told in the Dark by W.F. Harvey, John Collier, Margaret Irwin, Adrian Ross, Saki, Basil Davenport, Lafcadio Hearn, Lord Dunsany

Tales to be Told in the Dark

W.F. Harvey, John Collier, Margaret Irwin, Adrian Ross, Saki, Basil Davenport, Lafcadio Hearn, Lord Dunsany

160 pages • first pub 1960 (editions)

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The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy by Peter Haining

The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy

Comic Tales of Fantasy #1

Peter Haining

300 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings by John Wyndham, Kenneth Ireland, Anthony Boucher, Martin Cottam, Marc Alexander, Alison Prince, Evan Hunter, John Collier, Lance Salway, Ian Miller, Robert Scott, Ramsey Campbell, Fredric Brown, Ruskin Bond, Richard Matheson, Ethel Helene Coen, Harold Rolseth, Michael Avallone, E. Nesbit, Sydney J. Bounds, Jonathon Heap, Patrick Bone, John Christopher, Dennis Pepper, Paul Fisher-Johnson, Roald Dahl, Gerald Kersh, T.H. White, Dannie Plachta, Geraldine McCaughrean, Robin Klein, Brian Pedley, Jack Ritchie, Ray Bradbury, Henry Slesar

The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings

John Wyndham, Kenneth Ireland, Anthony Boucher, Martin Cottam, Marc Alexander, Alison Prince, Evan Hunter, John Collier, Lance Salway, Ian Miller, Robert Scott, Ramsey Campbell, Fredric Brown, Ruskin Bond, Richard Matheson, Ethel Helene Coen, Harold Rolseth, Michael Avallone, E. Nesbit, Sydney J. Bounds, Jonathon Heap, Patrick Bone, John Christopher, Dennis Pepper, Paul Fisher-Johnson, Roald Dahl, Gerald Kersh, T.H. White, Dannie Plachta, Geraldine McCaughrean, Robin Klein, Brian Pedley, Jack Ritchie, Ray Bradbury, Henry Slesar

224 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

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