FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS(Intro By Fred Hoyle)

John Collier (1901-1980) was born in London. He began his writing career as a poet, first publishing in 1920. He turned to fiction in the early 1930s, producing the popular and controversial novel,  His Monkey Wife , about a man who is married to a chimpanzee. In 1935 Collier left England for Hollywood, where he became an active and prolific writer for film and later television; he was particularly influential in developing the brilliantly creepy and subversive style of such television classics as “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “The Twilight Zone.” An adaptation from Milton,  Paradise Lost: Screenplay for Cinema of the Mind  was published in 1973, but never produced as a film. Collier’s other works range from the poetry collection  Gemini  (1931) to the novels  Tom’s A-Cold (1933) and  Defy the Foul Fiend  (1934), and the short story collections  Presenting Moonshine  (1941),  Fancies and Goodnights  (1951),  Pictures in the Fire  (1958),  The John Collier Reader  (1972), and  The Best of John Collier  (1975). Ray Bradbury started writing fiction at the age of twelve and published his first story when he was twenty. He has since written more than thirty books—novels, stories, essays, plays, and poems—including  The Martian Chronicles  (1950), the futuristic novel  Fahrenheit 451  (1952), and a collection of short stories T he Illustrated Man  (1951). He lives with his wife in Los Angeles. 

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William L. Horsnell

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