Publication: Out of This World

Publication: Out of This WorldPublication Record # 25373
Editor: Julius Fast
Date: 1944-05-00
Catalog ID: 537
Publisher: Penguin Books (US)
Price:
$0.25^?$: US dollar
Pages: viii+245
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes:
- Copyright page states "First Published May, 1944"; no other printings listed. Ads on last page of book list titles through 538.
- Price code not explicitly shown, but both back cover and ad page state that all Penguin books are 25¢ each.
- Contento1 and Cole Checklist have the month as June.
External IDs:
- Bleiler Supernatural: 627
- OCLC/WorldCat: 5882391
- Reginald-1: 05235

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Anthology Title: Out of This World • anthology by Julius Fast

Contents (view Concise Listing)

vii • A Word from the Editor (Out of This World) • (1944) • essay by Julius Fast
3 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • short story by John Collier
15 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
21 • Sam Small's Tyke • [Sam Small] • (1940) • novelette by Eric Knight
61 • Satan and Sam Shay • (1942) • short story by Robert Arthur
78 • A Disputed Authorship (excerpt from A House-Boat on the Styx) • (1895) • short fiction by John Kendrick Bangs
84 • Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies • [The Lobblies] • (1937) • short story by Nelson S. Bond
92 • A Vision of Judgment • (1911) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of A Vision of Judgement 1899)
98 • Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier
104 • The King of the Cats • (1929) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
121 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
153 • My Friend Merton • (1944) • short story by Julius Fast
167 • And Adam Begot • (1942) • short story by Arch Oboler
184 • The Club Secretary • [Jorkens] • (1934) • short story by Lord Dunsany
190 • The Scarlet Plague • (1912) • novella by Jack London

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