Summary Bibliography: Gerald Kersh

Author: Gerald Kersh Author Record # 1060
Legal Name: Kersh, Gerald
Birthplace: Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
Birthdate: 26 August 1911
Deathdate: 5 November 1968
Language: English
Webpages: flashpointmag.com, harlanellison.com, IMDB, london-books.co.uk, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
Used These Alternate Names: Piers England, P. J. Gahagan, G. J. Herbert, Waldo Kellar,
Джеральд Керш^?Dzheral'd Kersh
,
Džerald Kerš^?Dzherald Kersh
Dzerald Kers
Note: Some first publications of collected short stories used the pseudonyms "Piers England", "P. J. Gahagan", "G. J. Herbert", "Alison Rostron" and "Waldo Kellar". All collected stories appeared as by Gerald Kersh. Harlan Ellison's Kersh site is dated 10 February 1999. It appears not to have been updated since then.
Author Tags: horror (3), post apocalypse (2), london (2), post-apocalypse (2), suspended animation (1), Shakespeare (1), Martians (1), humanity (1), Paris (1), France (1), deals with the devil (1), body swap (1), racism (1), cursed objects (1), bad blood (1), kafkaesque (1), unnatural cats (1), alternate history (1), Siberia (1), fairies (1) and 12 additional tags. View all tags for Gerald Kersh

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Fiction Series

Karmesin
- Karmesin (1936) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin! (1944)
  - Variant: Karmesin, Bank Robber (1948)
  - Variant: A Slight Miscalculation (1957)
- Karmesin and the Meter (1937) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin, Swindler (1947)
  - Variant: Karmesin and the Big Frost (1950)
- Karmesin and Human Vanity (1938) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin, Con Man (1949)
- Karmesin and the Big Flea (1938) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin, Blackmailer (1949)
  - Variant: Karmesin Beats the Blackmailers (1954)
- Karmesin and the Tailor's Dummy (1938) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin, Criminal Lawyer (1947)
- Karmesin and the Raving Lunatic (1939) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin, Jewel Thief (1945)
  - Translation: Karmesin Voleur de Bijoux [French] (1950)
  - Variant: A Bracelet for Karmesin (1950)
  - Variant: Karmesin and the Man Who Was Mad About Diamonds (1954)
  - Variant: Bracelet for a Man of Genius (1957)
- Inscrutable Providence (1944) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin, Murderer (1945)
  - Translation: Karmesin Meurtrier [French] (1950)
  - Variant: Karmesin the Murderer (1996)
- Karmesin and the Gorgeous Robes (1946) [SF] [non-genre]
- Chickenfeed for Karmesin (1946) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin the Fixer (1970)
  - Translation: L'Intermédiaire [French] (1971)
- The Thief Who Played Dead (1954) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Collector's Piece (1954)
  - Variant: A Tomb for Karmesin (1954)
  - Translation: Le Voleur qui fit le mort [French] (1961)
- The Conscience of Karmesin (1954) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin and the Crown Jewels (1959)
- Karmesin and the Royalties (1956) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Karmesin Takes Pen in Hand (1964)
- Skate's Eyeball (1960) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Honor Among Thieves (1964)
  - Translation: Les Loups entre eux [French] (1968)
  - Translation: L'Honneur du Milieu [French] (1972)
- Oalámaóa (1960) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: A Deal in Overcoats (1960)
  - Variant: The Molosso Overcoats (1964)
  - Translation: De overjassen van Molosso [Dutch] (1967)
  - Variant: Oalamaoa (2003)
- The Karmesin Affair (1962) [SF] [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Bone for Debunkers (1962)
  - Variant: Karmesin and the Hamlet Promptbook (1966)
  - Translation: Karmesin Faussaire et Philantrope [French] (1967)
- Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar (2003) [C]
- Henry the Ghost
  - Karmesin and the Unbeliever (1939) [SF] also appeared as:
    - Variant: Karmesin, Racketeer (1950)
  - Karmesin and the Invisible Millionaire (1945) [SF] also appeared as:
    - Variant: Karmesin and the Trismagistus Formula (1969)
    - Translation: Karmesin et la Formule de Trismagistus [French] (1969)

Novels

The Secret Masters (1953) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Great Wash (1953)

Collections

I Got References (1939)
Selected Stories (1943)
The Battle of the Singing Men and Selected Stories (1944)
The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories (1944)
Neither Man Nor Dog (1946)
Sad Road to the Sea (1947)
Clock Without Hands (1949)
The Brazen Bull (1952)
The Brighton Monster and Others (1953)
Guttersnipe: Little Novels (1954)
Men Without Bones (1955)
On an Odd Note (1958)
The Ugly Face of Love (1960)
The Best of Gerald Kersh (1960)
Men Without Bones (1962) also appeared as:
- Variant: Men Without Bones and Other Haunting Inhabitants (2013)
More Than Once Upon a Time (1964)
The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver and Other Stories (1965)
Macabere verhalen [Dutch] (1967)
Nightshade & Damnations (1968) also appeared as:
- Variant: Nightshade and Damnations (2013)
Mann ohne Gesicht [German] (1977)
The World, the Flesh, & the Devil: Fantastical Writings Volume 1 (2006)

Short Fiction Series

Busto's Boarding House
- The Devil That Troubled the Chessboard (1936) [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: The Devil That Troubled the Chess-Board (1936)
  - Translation: De duivel die het schaakspel haatte [Dutch] (1967)
- Lunatic's Broth (1938) [non-genre] also appeared as:
  - Variant: "Busto Is a Ghost, Too Mean to Give Us a Fright!" (1938)
  - Variant: Lunatic's Broth (1938) [as by P. J. Gahagan]
- The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy (1939) also appeared as:
  - Variant: The Whisper (1946)
  - Translation: De verschrikkelijke buiksprekerspop [Dutch] (1966)
  - Translation: Sssst! [Dutch] (1980)
Swindle Sheet Morris
- A Matter of Pink Elephants (1965)
- The Haunted Typewriter (1965)
- Mr. Tomorrow (1970) [non-genre]

Short Fiction

The Conqueror Worm (1937)
Doctor Ox Will Die at Midnight (1937) also appeared as:
- Variant: Dr. Ox Will Die at Midnight (1970)
- Variant: Dr Ox Will Die at Midnight (2006)
Comrade Death (1938) also appeared as:
- Translation: Camarada Muerte [Spanish] (1974)
The Old Burying Place ... (1938) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Old Burying Place (1938)
Prometheus (1938)
Slaves (1938)
The Earwig (1938)
Shaggy Yellow Dog (1939)
The Detestable Black Widow (1939) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Widow at the Dun Cow (1944)
The Horrible House with the Secret Pipes (1939) also appeared as:
- Variant: The House Near Charing Cross! (1944)
The Naked Man (1940)
The Dungeon (1941)
Frozen Beauty (1941) [also as by Waldo Kellar]
The Gentleman All in Black (1942) also appeared as:
- Translation: Der Herr in Schwarz [German] (1977)
Blast!.. (1942) [also as by Waldo Kellar]
Who Wants a Liver-coloured Cat? (1942)
Fantasy of a Hunted Man (1942) also appeared as:
- Variant: Fantasy of a Hunted Man (1942) [as by Waldo Kellar]
- Translation: Wachtraum eines Gehetzten [German] (1977)
The Evil Destiny of Dr. Polacek (1942) [also as by Waldo Kellar]
A Legend of Truth (1942)
A Vision of a Lost Child (1943)
Some Other Star (1943)
Gomez (1943) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Unkillable Man (1962)
- Translation: L'homme qu'on ne pouvait tuer [French] (1963)
- Translation: Der Mann, der vom Tod vergessen wurde [German] (1969)
All That One Man Remembered (1943)
The White Flash (1943)
Neither Man Nor Dog (1945)
In a Room Without Walls (1946)
An Undistinguished Boy (1946)
The Scene of the Crime (1946)
Mary John (1946)
In a Misty Window (1946)
Miracle of the Winged Rescue (1947) also appeared as:
- Variant: White Horse with Wings (1947)
Note on Danger B (1947) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  Bericht über Gefahr B^?Bericht ueber Gefahr B
  [German] (1976)
- Translation: Bericht über Gefahr B [German] (1977)
The Royal Imposter (1947) also appeared as:
- Variant: The King Who Collected Clocks (1948)
The Epistle of Simple Simon (1947)
Green Powder (1947)
Seed (1947)
Seed of Destruction (1947) also appeared as:
- Translation: Das Saatkorn des Todes [German] (1977)
The Man Who Saw God (1947)
Thirty-One Seconds (1947)
This Stuff Is Like Cigarette Ash (1947)
Voices in the Dust of Annan (1947) also appeared as:
- Variant: Voices in the Dust (1947)
- Variant: Dust of Annan (1948)
The Monster (1948) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Brighton Monster (1953)
- Translation: Monster [Dutch] (1957)
- Translation: Het monster van Brighton [Dutch] (1967)
- Translation: Das Ungeheuer von Brighton [German] (1977)
The Forbidding Doorway (1949)
The Copper Dahlia (1949) also appeared as:
- Translation: Bakarna Dalija [Serbian] (1977) [as by
  Džerald Kerš^?Dzherald Kersh
  Dzerald Kers
  ]
- Translation: Die kupferne Dahlie [German] (1977)
- Translation: Bakrena dalija [Croatian] (1983)
Jack of Swords (1949) also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- Jack of Swords (Part 1 of 5) (1949)
- Jack of Swords (Part 2 of 5) (1949)
- Jack of Swords (Part 3 of 5) (1949)
- Jack of Swords (Part 4 of 5) (1949)
- Jack of Swords (Part 5 of 5) (1949)
Intruders for Tea (1949) also appeared as:
- Variant: Visitors for Tea (1952)
The Spellbinder (1951) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Brazen Bull (1952)
Mr. Ypsilanti in the Dark (1952)
The Unbroken Heart (1952)
Wealth of Nations (1953)
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? (1953) also appeared as:
- Translation: Qu'est devenu le caporal Cuckoo ? [French] (1961)
- Translation:
  ¿Qué le ocurrió al caporal Cuckoo?^?¿Que le ocurrio al caporal Cuckoo?
  [Spanish] (1964)
- Translation: Che fine ha fatto il caporale Cuckoo? [Italian] (1966)
- Translation:
  ¿Qué le ocurrió al cabo Cockoo?^?¿Que le ocurrio al cabo Cockoo?
  [Spanish] (1970)
- Translation:
  Qu'est-il arrivé au caporal Cuckoo ?^?Qu'est-il arrive au caporal Cuckoo ?
  [French] (1975)
- Translation: Wat is er toch gebeurd met korporaal Cuckoo? [Dutch] (1978)
The Dancing Doll (1954)
Thicker Than Water (1954) also appeared as:
- Translation: Dicker als Wasser [German] (1977)
Men Without Bones (1954) also appeared as:
- Translation: Menschen ohne Knochen [German] (1977)
The Sympathetic Souse (1954)
Carnival on the Downs (1955) also appeared as:
- Variant: Strange Carnival (1956)
Femme Fatale (1955)
The White-Washed Room (1955)
Terraces (1955)
Ou Est the Corpse de Ma Tante? (1955)
The Ugly Face of Love (1955)
The Murderer's Eye (1957) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Eye (1958)
The Secret of the Bottle (1957) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Oxoxoco Bottle (1958)
- Translation: De kruik van Oxoxoco [Dutch] (1967)
- Translation: Le secret de la bouteille [French] (1967)
- Translation: Die Oxoxoco-Flasche [German] (1977)
Prophet Without Honor (1958) also appeared as:
- Variant: Prophet Without Honour (1960)
River of Riches (1958) also appeared as:
- Variant: Shout Without Sound (1958)
Apprentice Assassin (1958)
The Terribly Wild Flowers (1958) also appeared as:
- Translation: Les plantes en folie [French] (1959)
The Incorruptible Tailor (1958)
The Shady Life of Annibal (1959)
The Laughingstock (1961) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Laughing-Stock (1965)
The Defeat of the Demon Tailor (1961)
The Unsafe Deposit Box (1962) also appeared as:
- Variant: Impasse (1962)
- Variant: A Little Something in the Bank (1964)
- Translation: Zo veilig als de bank [Dutch] (1967)
- Translation: Niebezpieczny sejf [Polish] (1970)
- Translation: Eine Kleinigkeit auf der Bank [German] (1977)
- Translation:
  Опасный вклад^?Opasnyy vklad
  [Russian] (1981) [as by
  Джеральд Керш^?Dzheral'd Kersh
  ]
Pride of Profession (1962)
Ghost Money (1963)
A Bargain with Cashel (1963) also appeared as:
- Variant: Putting the Bite on Cashel (1965)
A Walk in the Snow (1964)
Greek Tragedy (1964)
Heartless Heidi (1964)
More Than Once Upon a Time (1964)
No Matter How You Slice It (1964) also appeared as:
- Translation: Hoe je het ook bekijkt ... [Dutch] (1967)
Proud Servant (1964)
Return of the Dog (1964)
The Nimroud Rug (1964)
The Spanish Prisoner (1964) also appeared as:
- Translation: Der spanische Gefangene [German] (1977)
The Tremendous Trifle (1964)
Somewhere Not Far from Here (1965)
The Geometry of the Skirt (1965)
A Tale Told in the Twilight (1965)
An Enemy of Women (1965)
And If This Ain't Love, Gorblimey (1965)
For a Song (1965) also appeared as:
- Translation: Für ein Lied [German] (1977)
High Stakes at the Swede's (1965)
Kind of Like a Beauty Contest, Sort Of (1965)
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure (1965)
Old Betsey (1965)
The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver (1965)
The Lady Who Played the Fool (1965)
The Person in Solferino Park (1965)
The Truth About Orlik (1966) also appeared as:
- Translation: La verità su Orlik [Italian] (1967)
Trip Out on Red Lizzie (1968)
The Pettifer Collection (1968)

Essays

Apology (Preface to I Got References) (1939)
To Whom It May Concern (Preface to Clean, Bright and Slightly Oiled) (1946)
Foreword (Men Are So Ardent) (1950)

Non-Genre Titles

Novels

Jews Without Jehovah (1934)
Men Are So Ardent (1936)
Night and the City (1938)
The Private Life of a Private (1941)
The Dead Look On (1943)
Faces in a Dusty Picture (1944)
The Weak and the Strong (1945)
Prelude to a Certain Midnight (1947)
Fowlers End (1957)
Brock (1969)

Collections

The Terribly Wild Flowers (1962)

Nonfiction

Clean, Bright and Slightly Oiled (1946)

Short Fiction Series

Eye in the Sky
- A Lecture on Military Law (1943)
- Introduction (Eye in the Sky: Sketches on a Searchlight Site) (1943)
- Joe Twist and the Great Cockroach Race (1943)
- Joe Twist and the Pretty Buttercups (1943)
- Joe Twist on Discipline (1943)
- Joe Twist on the Use of Mince Pies (1943)
- The Chancer Chances His Arm (1943)
Pifferari
- On the Other Hand (1952)
- Guttersnipe (1953)
- Last Love (1954)

Short Fiction

The House of Relish (1936)
Birth of a Love Song (1937)
Macagony's Fist (1937) [also as by P. J. Gahagan]
The Scar (1937)
Wolf! Wolf! (1937)
The Drunk and the Blind (1938)
The Tarleton Twins (1938) [also as by G. J. Herbert]
The Cat Finds His Way Home (1938) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Luck of Sergeant Schall (1942) [as by Waldo Kellar]
Grey Old She-Wolf (1938)
The Wolf Dies in Silence (1938)
Lives (1938)
Will to Power (1938)
Elizabeth and Temptation (1939) [also as by G. J. Herbert]
Hairy Cohen (1939)
A Saint (1939) also appeared as:
- Variant: A Saint Who Scorned the Scarlet (1944)
Kannibalsky Had No Body (1939)
Flesh and Grass (1939) also appeared as:
- Variant: Grass (1943)
The Battle of the Singing Men (1939)
Let Lying Dogs Sleep (1939)
The Personal History of a Mouse (1940)
A Ruby Worth Eleven Hundred Pounds (1940)
The Musicians (1941)
The Stone (1941) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Beggar's Stone (1941)
- Variant: The Beggars' Stone (1941)
The Undefeated (1941) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Undefeated Radetski (1945)
Strong Greek Wine (1941) also appeared as:
- Variant: Something on His Mind (1957)
The Fortunes of the Pryskys (1941)
The Last Coin of Mr. Baer (1941) [also as by Waldo Kellar]
The Bitter Seas (1942)
Maria's Christ (1942)
A Bang on the Head for Dutoit (1942) [also as by Waldo Kellar]
The Ten Old Tigers (1942)
The Ruined Wall (1942)
Dudelsack (1942)
A Small and Dirty Dog (1942) [also as by Waldo Kellar]
Dustin – the Broken Man (1942)
Gratitude (1943)
Red Gentleman of Staffordshire (1943)
Kannibalsky (1943)
The Host (1943)
The Man and the Spirit (1943) also appeared as:
- Variant: Buried Treasure (1955)
Destiny and the Bullet (1943)
Irongut and the Brown Mouse (1943)
A Bit of a Change (1943)
Uncle Kuzma (1943) [also as by Piers England]
The Woman in the Mud (1944)
The Woman and the Fire (1944)
Reflections in a Tablespoon (1946)
Hero-Worship (1946) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Hero Worshipped (1946)
Envy (1946)
Reflection in a Brown Eye (1946)
The Frenchman Who Understood Women (1946)
The Last Battle (1946)
The Sailor's Farewell to His Horse (1946)
Tread Lightly (1946)
Sad Road to the Sea (1946) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  Печальная дорога к морю^?Pechal'naya doroga k moryu
  [Russian] (1992) [as by
  Джеральд Керш^?Dzheral'd Kersh
  ]
Clock Without Hands (1946) also appeared as:
- Translation: Mann ohne Gesicht [German] (1977)
- Serializations:
- Clock Without Hands (Part 1 of 3) (1946)
- Clock Without Hands (Part 2 of 3) (1946)
- Clock Without Hands (Part 3 of 3) (1946)
Bitter Pink Paper (1947)
Crazy Quarrel (1947)
Do You Follow Me? (1947)
Knock, Knock! (1947)
Love, the Marksman (1947)
One Guinea's Worth (1947)
Sacred to the Memory (1947)
Some Late Lark Singing (1947)
The Crash of Max Raddish (1947)
The Hat (1947)
The History of Dancing Oliver (1947)
The Memorial (1947)
The Story of Johnnie Boots (1947)
The Woman and the Doll (1947)
Two Gentlemen of Bucharest (1947)
Ladies or Clothes (1947)
The Mysterious Smile of Mona Lisa (1948) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Ape and the Mystery (1948)
- Translation: De aap en het mysterie [Dutch] (1967)
- Translation: Der Affe und das Geheimnis [German] (1977)
The End of a Wise Guy (1948)
The Queen of Pig Island (1949)
Fairy Gold (1949)
Flight to the World's End (1949)
Judas Forgiven (1949) also appeared as:
- Translation: Vergebung für Judas [German] (1977)
The Terrible Ride of Colonel Tessier (1952) also appeared as:
- Variant: Teeth and Nails (1954)
The Crewel Needle (1953) also appeared as:
- Variant: Open Verdict (1959)
- Translation: De borduurnaald [Dutch] (1967)
The Hack (1954)
The Madwoman (1954)
Incident in a Tavern (1955)
One Case in a Million (1955)
The Charcoal Burner (1955)
The Fabulous Fido (1955)
The Guardian (1955)
The Life and Times of the Dog Basta (1955)
The Violin Maker (1955)
Memory of a Fight (1955)
A Lucky Day for the Boar (1962) also appeared as:
- Variant: Time Is the Illusion (1966)
The Persian Bedspread (1963) also appeared as:
- Variant: Fabulous Bargain (1964)
The Ambiguities of Lo Yeing Pai (1968)
Crooked Bone (1968)

Poems

The Soldier 1939-1945 (1942)

Summary Bibliography: Gerald Kersh

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