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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1946

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1946

Pages
  
xiii, 301 pp

Author
  
A. E. Coppard

Cover artist
  
Ronald Clyne

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror

Similar
  
A E Coppard books, Short Stories

Fearful Pleasures is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author A. E. Coppard. It was released in 1946 and was the first collection of the author's stories to be published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 4,033 copies.

Contents

Contents

Fearful Pleasures contains the following tales:

  1. "Foreword"
  2. "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me"
  3. "Clorinda Walks in Heaven"
  4. "The Elixir of Youth"
  5. "Simple Simon"
  6. "Old Martin"
  7. "The Bogie Man"
  8. "Polly Morgan"
  9. "The Gollan"
  10. "The Post Office and the Serpent"
  11. "Crotty"
  12. "Shinkwin"
  13. "Ahoy, Sailor Boy!"
  14. "Gone Away"
  15. "Rocky and the Bailiff"
  16. "Ale Celestial"
  17. "The Fair Young Willowy Tree"
  18. "Father Raven"
  19. "The Drum"
  20. "Cheese"
  21. "The Homeless One"
  22. "The Kisstruck Bogie"
  23. "The Tiger"
  24. "The Gruesome Pit"

Reception

New York Times reviewer Helen B. Parker praised Coppard's "great propensity for capturing with lucidity the folk speech of the British Isles", concluding that the collection contained "more than enough poetry of language. His is the rare, musical style that almost demands reading aloud".

References

Fearful Pleasures Wikipedia
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