Happy Endings ed. Damon Knight (Bobbs-Merrill, 1974, 0-672-51879-1, $8.95, x+205pp, hc, an)
Subtitled “15 Stories by the Masters of the Macabre”.
- ix · Introduction · Damon Knight · in
- 1 · The Greatest Man in the World · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker February 21 1931
- 10 · The Way Up to Heaven · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker February 27 1954
- 25 · The Purist · Ogden Nash · pm The Saturday Evening Post May 25 1935
- 26 · Father’s in the Basement · Philip José Farmer · ss Orbit 11 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1972
- 35 · Miss Thompson · W. Somerset Maugham · nv The Smart Set April 1921
- 82 · The Damnedest Thing · Garson Kanin · ss Esquire February 1956
- 91 · De Mortuis · John Collier · ss The New Yorker July 18 1942
- 100 · Tobermory [Clovis Sangrail] · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911
revised from the original (Westminster Gazette, November 27, 1909) to feature Clovis rather than Bertie van Tahn.
- 109 · Undertaker Song · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s November 24 1934
- 123 · The Idol of the Flies · Jane Rice · nv Unknown Worlds June 1942
- 149 · The Red-Headed Murderess · Robert Branson · ss Collier’s October 9 1948, as “Murder in Szechwan”
- 158 · The Language of Flowers · Hugh Atkinson · ss Splinters ed. Alex Hamilton, Hutchinson, 1968
- 175 · Ashes to Ashes · Nunnally Johnson · ss The Smart Set May 1923
- 191 · A Letter · Isaac Babel · ss Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, Knopf, 1929
- 197 · Winter · Kit Reed · ss Winter’s Tales 15 ed. A. D. Maclean, Macmillan, 1969
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