Country United States Publisher Heinemann Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1953 Genre Science Fiction | Language English Publication date 1953 Pages 265 pp | |
John Boynton Priestley books Jenny Villiers, Salt is leaving, Adam in moonshine, The Magicians, The shapes of sleep | ||
The Other Place, subtitled "And Other Stories of the Same Sort", is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by J. B. Priestley published in hardcover by Harper & Brothers and Heinemann in 1953. The title story, original to the collection, was adapted as an episode of the television series Westinghouse Studio One in 1958, starring Cedric Hardwicke as "a sorcerer with chin whiskers"
Contents
Contents
"Mr. Strenberry’s Tale" was originally published as “Doomsday”.
Reception
New York Times reviewer William Peden reviewed the collection favorably, describing it as "a series of very competent stories depicting the effect of the supernatural on the lives of ordinary English people . . . combin[ing] time-proven narrative methods and meaningful, if frequently obvious, social commentary." Reviewing for a genre audience, P. Schuyler Miller praised the science fiction stories for their "quality of thrown-away understatement" but found the other pieces marked by "the old familiar themes of fantasy, smoothly and competently but not very originally handled."