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John Collier (1) [1901–1980]

This page covers the author of Fancies and Goodnights.

For other authors named John Collier, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by John Collier
Fancies and Goodnights 727 copies, 12 reviews
His Monkey Wife 201 copies, 8 reviews
The John Collier Reader 53 copies, 1 review
Defy the Foul Fiend 46 copies, 1 review
The Best of John Collier 26 copies
Milton's Paradise lost; screenplay for cinema of the mind 18 copies
Presenting Moonshine 17 copies
The Touch of Nutmeg and More Unlikely Stories 14 copies
Green Thoughts and Other Stories 2016 11 copies, 1 review
The Devil and all 11 copies
Green Thoughts 10 copies
Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 9 copies
Tom's A-Cold 8 copies
Evening Primrose [short story] 8 copies
Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2 7 copies
Bottle Party [short story] 7 copies
Back for Christmas 6 copies
Of Demons And Darkness 6 copies
Wer andern eine Grube gräbt... 6 copies
More of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors 5 copies
Avon Bedside Companion (Contributor) 5 copies
Blüten der Nacht. Befremdliche Geschichten. 5 copies
Bird of Prey 5 copies
Pictures in the Fire 5 copies
Just the other day; an informal history of Great Britain since the war 4 copies
Thus I Refute Beelzy [short story] 4 copies
The Chaser [short story] 4 copies
Denk nichts Böses. Dreizehn neue mitternachtsblaue Geschichten 4 copies
Mitternachtsblaue Geschichten 4 copies
Wet Saturday [short story] 3 copies
Midnight Blue {short story} 3 copies
The Devil's Children 3 copies
Man Overboard 3 copies
The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It 3 copies
Elephant Boy [1937 film] (Screenwriter) 3 copies, 1 review
Witch's money 3 copies
Variation On A Theme 2 copies
Are You Too Late Or Was I Too Early 2 copies
Green Thoughts and Other Strange Tales 2 copies
Ah, the University 2 copies
Hell Hath No Fury 2 copies
Little Memento 2 copies
Fallen Star 2 copies
Un Rien de muscade (Collection Le Miroir obscur) 2 copies
Incident on a Lake [short fiction] 2 copies
Another American Tragedy 2 copies
John Collier, Fancies and Goodnights: Evening Primrose, The Touch of… 1 copy
Famous Tales of Suspense: Four Gems by the Masters 1 copy
Blackpool Remembered 1 copy, 1 review
Blackpool Revisited 1 copy
Evening Primrose - Escape Radio Show 1 copy
A Word to the Wise 1 copy
Not far away, not long ago [short story] 1 copy
Halfway To Hell 1 copy
Night Youth, Paris And The Moon 1 copy
The Frog Prince 1 copy
The Lady on the Grey 1 copy
Mary 1 copy
De Mortuis 1 copy
Three Bears Cottage 1 copy
Squirrels Have Bright Eyes 1 copy
Over Insurance [short story] 1 copy
Old Acquaintance 1 copy
Season Of Mists 1 copy
Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives 1 copy
Great Possibilities 1 copy
Without Benefit of Galsworthy [short story] 1 copy
The Devil, George, and Rosie [Short Story] 1 copy
Collaboration 1 copy
Gavin O Leary 1 copy
If Youth Knew If Age Could {short story} 1 copy
Special Delivery {short story} 1 copy
Rope Enough 1 copy
Sleeping Beauty 1 copy
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Also by John Collier
50 Great Short Stories (Contributor) 1,198 copies, 7 reviews
The Dark Descent (Contributor) 694 copies, 13 reviews
Short Story Masterpieces (Contributor) 652 copies, 3 reviews
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (Contributor) 616 copies, 5 reviews
The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy (Contributor) 498 copies, 3 reviews
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (Contributor) 485 copies, 8 reviews
Fifty Great American Short Stories (Contributor) 415 copies, 3 reviews
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (Contributor) 354 copies, 6 reviews
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves (Contributor) 288 copies, 4 reviews
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (Contributor) 288 copies, 1 review
A Treasury of Short Stories (Contributor) 286 copies
Sympathy for the Devil (Contributor) 272 copies, 8 reviews
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (Contributor) 257 copies, 5 reviews
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (Contributor) 255 copies, 4 reviews
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night (Contributor) 253 copies, 4 reviews
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (Contributor) 221 copies, 6 reviews
A Science Fiction Argosy (Contributor, some editions) 158 copies
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (Contributor) 151 copies, 3 reviews
QPB Illustrated Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales (Illustrator) 149 copies, 2 reviews
The Master's Choice (Contributor) 144 copies
The Sleep of Stone (Illustrator) 137 copies, 3 reviews
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 128 copies, 1 review
The Universe (Illustrator) 114 copies, 2 reviews
The Worlds of Science Fiction (Contributor) 110 copies, 1 review
Werewolves and Shape Shifters (Contributor) 102 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (Contributor) 91 copies, 2 reviews
Murder for Christmas, Vol. 2 (Contributor) 83 copies
Magic For Sale (Contributor) 78 copies
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology (Contributor) 77 copies, 2 reviews
Stories My Mother Never Told Me [Random House, 25 stories] (Contributor) 76 copies, 2 reviews
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (Contributor) 76 copies
13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV (Contributor) 76 copies, 1 review
Magicats II! (Contributor) 75 copies
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (Contributor) 70 copies
Stories of Suspense (Contributor) 70 copies, 3 reviews
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Contributor) 67 copies, 1 review
Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories (Contributor) 67 copies, 1 review
Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (Contributor) 67 copies
The Microverse (Illustrator) 65 copies
Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Contributor) 64 copies, 1 review
Masters of Fantasy (Contributor) 63 copies
Space Mail II (Contributor) 63 copies
65 Great Tales of Horror (Contributor) 56 copies
American Christmas Stories (Contributor) 56 copies
Desert Island Decameron (Contributor) 55 copies
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (Contributor) 53 copies
The Supernatural Reader (Contributor) 53 copies
The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume 1 (Contributor) 51 copies, 1 review
The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories 51 copies
Reading for Pleasure (Contributor) 49 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 10th Series (Contributor) 48 copies
Chillers for Christmas (Contributor) 48 copies
Alfred Hitchcock's Fear and Trembling (Contributor) 47 copies
Point of Departure (Contributor) 45 copies, 1 review
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (Contributor) 43 copies
The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction,… (Contributor) 42 copies, 1 review
Modern Short Story Classics of Suspense (Author) 41 copies
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (Contributor) 41 copies
The Television Late-night Horror Omnibus (Contributor) 39 copies
The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction (Contributor) 38 copies, 1 review
Seaserpents! (Contributor) 37 copies
Stories Selected from The Unexpected (Author) 36 copies
The Graveyard Reader (Contributor) 36 copies, 1 review
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (Contributor) 28 copies
Famous and Curious Animal Stories (Contributor) 28 copies, 1 review
Stories for the Dead of Night (Contributor) 28 copies
Human? (Contributor) 28 copies, 1 review
The Bedside Playboy (Contributor) 23 copies
And the Darkness Falls (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
Tales of Dungeons and Dragons (Contributor) 22 copies
The Best Horror Stories (Contributor) 21 copies
Masterpieces of Mystery: The Fifties (Contributor) 20 copies
Sylvia Scarlett [1935 film] (Screenwriter) 19 copies
ROOTS OF EVIL: BEYOND THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS (Contributor) 17 copies
Tales of Love and Horror (Contributor) 16 copies
20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 1 (Contributor) 16 copies, 1 review
Twentieth-Century American Short Stories: An Anthology (Contributor) 15 copies
The War Lord [1965 film] (Screenwriter) 13 copies
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (Contributor) 12 copies
31 Stories (Contributor) 12 copies, 2 reviews
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (Contributor) 11 copies
Deception [1946 film] (Screenplay) 11 copies, 1 review
More Murder on Cue: Stage, Screen & Radio Favorites: Stories from Ellery… (Contributor) 11 copies
In the Dead of Night (Contributor) 11 copies
Tales for Males (Contributor) 10 copies
Cries of Terror (Contributor) 9 copies, 1 review
Murder Without Tears (Contributor) 9 copies
The Red Brain (Contributor) 9 copies, 1 review
Tall Short Stories (Contributor) 9 copies
The scandal and credulities of John Aubrey (Editor, some editions) 8 copies
Uncanny Tales of Unearthly and Unexpected Horrors (Contributor) 8 copies
Best Animal Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 8 copies
Demonic, Dangerous and Deadly: An Anthology (Contributor) 8 copies
Wake Up Screaming: Sixteen Chilling Tales of the Macabre (Contributor) 7 copies
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (Contributor) 7 copies
Armchair Horror Collection (Contributor) 7 copies
13 Ways to Kill a Man (Contributor) 7 copies
Nachtelijke cavalcade : twaalf ongewone vertellingen (Author) 7 copies
Murder for the Millions (Contributor) 7 copies
Dealers Choice: The Worlds Greatest Poker Stories (Contributor) 6 copies
Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly… (Contributor) 6 copies
American Crime Stories (Contributor) 5 copies
Strange Desires (Contributor) 5 copies
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (Contributor) 5 copies
Elephant dance (Introduction) 5 copies
A Hornbook for Witches: Stories and Poems for Halloween (Contributor) 4 copies
Thrillers, Chillers & Killers (Contributor) 4 copies
Sechsundreißig mal Gänsehaut (Author) 4 copies
Huivering wekken : 26 onthutsende verhalen (Contributor) 4 copies
Breakdown and Other Thrillers (Contributor) 4 copies
Vader is de beste (Author) 3 copies
The Furnival book of short stories (Contributor) 3 copies
The Best Short Short Stories from Collier's (Contributor) 3 copies
Husbands and Lovers (Contributor) 2 copies, 1 review
American Aphrodite (Volume Four, Number Thirteen) (Contributor) 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (Contributor) 2 copies
Historier fra andre verdener (Contributor) 2 copies, 1 review
The Bedside Bonanza (Contributor) 2 copies
Ellery Queen's 1966 Anthology (Contributor) 1 copy
Best Crime Stories 2 (Contributor) 1 copy
Murder for Christmas [audio abridgement] (Contributor) 1 copy
Rosanna McCoy [1949 film] (Writer) 1 copy
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Collier, John Henry Noyes
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Date of birth
1901-05-03
Date of death
1980-04-06
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Gender
male
Nationality
UK
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Birthplace
Brixton, Lambeth, London, England, UK
Place of death
Pacific Palisades, California, USA
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London, England, UK
USA
Education
privately educated
Occupations
writer
screenwriter
Relationships
Collier, Vincent (uncle)
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