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Mr. George and Other Odd Persons

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Cover artist
  
Robert E. Hubbell

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1963

Country
  
United States of America

Language
  
English

Pages
  
viii, 239 pp

Author
  
August Derleth

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
August Derleth books, Short Stories

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Mr. George and Other Odd Persons is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American author August Derleth written under the pseudonym of Stephen Grendon. It was released in 1963 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,546 copies. Most of the stories had appeared previously in the magazine Weird Tales. Two appeared in The Arkham Sampler. The title story was dramatized for the Thriller TV series.

Contents

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Contents

Mr. George and Other Odd Persons contains the following tales:

  1. "Introduction" by August Derleth
  2. "Mr. George"
  3. "Parrington's Pool"
  4. "A Gentleman From Prague"
  5. "The Man on B-17"
  6. "Blessed Are the Meek"
  7. "Mara"
  8. "The Blue Spectacles"
  9. "Alannah"
  10. "Dead Man's Shoes"
  11. "The Tsantsa in the Parlor"
  12. "Balu"
  13. "The Extra Passenger"
  14. "The Wind in the Lilacs"
  15. "Miss Eperson"
  16. "The Night Train to Lost Valley"
  17. "Bishop's Gambit"
  18. "Mrs. Manifold"

Reprints

  • New York: Belmont, 1964 (by August Derleth).
  • London: Tandem, 1965 (as When Graveyards Yawn by August Derleth).

    • References

    Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Wikipedia
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