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    <body><![CDATA[These stories by John Collier--who spent most of his career in Hollywood, where he was instrumental in the tone and style of such shows as <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2014794.The_Thirty_nine_Steps_" title="The Thirty-nine Steps. by John Buchan">Alfred Hitchcock</a> Presents</em> and <em>The Twilight Zone</em>--are marvelous examples of a sort of short story that hardly exists anymore: sharp, satirical, and mordant flight...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10341784">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This man is a genius. He can write a story about a man falling in love with a department store mannequin and make it more touching than any romance novel. He's clever to the point of hilarity. His wit makes it feel like he's winking at you between the pages. <br/>The opening to one of my favourite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3175292">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This almost gets a five star.  The fifty (FIFTY!) stories in this book are just about uniformly concise and excellent. The whole book has a fantastic-realistic tone, in which midcentury characters might either meet up with a demon or discover their lover's secret, and often both in conjunction.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72160716">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Collier writes short, very intense stories, often making blithe and skillful use of all sorts of fairy tale and fantasy tropes such as angels, devils, demons, mannequins, and anthropomorphised fleas.  His best stories are on par with Roald Dahl's short fiction, although a handful of the stories in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11435861">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[His are great, twisted short stories.  As enjoyable as the Twilight Zone marathons of my youth.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I stole this book from my dad's office because, honestly, the cover looked cool. But as I got into it, I was spending hours every night reading the witty (yet strange) stories that are in this book. They range from sad, happy, eerie, and haunting. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just recently reread this after having my old copy returned to me by a friend--Collier is a lost master of the weird, in the same general vein as Shirley Jackson. He's much more obsessed with sex than I remembered, though. Not that it's a bad thing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An English Twilight Zone.  Alice In Wonderland grows up.  Roald Dahl's wittier brother.  Saki's cleverer cousin.  The best read I've had in several years.  When will NYRB publish more of him?  Or find another comparable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All these stories are great. My favorite is &quot;Thus I Refute Beelzy&quot; or possibly  &quot;Green Thoughts&quot;. Prototypical paranormal irony, probably something Rod Serling read as a kid (my copy says first copyright 1931).]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[John Collier's wild and sardonic tales, which were for many years a fixture in the pages of The New Yorker, are, in the opinion of his many devoted admirers, as good as - indeed better than - the best of Saki and Roald Dahl. In stories that explore the logic of lunacy, presenting the most fantastical occurrences as commonplace fact, Collier not only tickles the fancy, but tests our nerve, making us wonder just how deep and firmly placed are the foundations of the (seemingly) real world. Here longtime Collier fan Ray Bradbury offers a new selection of the most inspired works of this singular modern genius.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Has some of my favorite short stories, like &quot;Evening Primrose&quot; and &quot;Back for Christmas.&quot; His stories used to be used for radio shows in the 40s.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For those who want to know where Neil Gaiman or terry pratchett are coming from.  Read &quot;Evening Primrose&quot; monstrously cool.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 04 20:57:46 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great stories. There's nothing funnier than grim and slightly erotic short stories.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite collection of short stories.]]></body>
    
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