Many of his numerous short stories (some 400 were published, over 100 of them never collected in his lifetime) are sf or fantasy, often having their original book appearance in collections such as Selected Stories (coll 1943 cut vt The Battle of the Singing Men 1944 chap), The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories (coll 1944), Neither Man nor Dog: Short Stories (coll 1946), Sad Road to the Sea (coll 1947), The Brighton Monster and Others (coll 1953), Men Without Bones and Other Stories (coll 1955 with differing contents, rev 1962), The Ugly Face of Love and Other Stories (coll 1960), The Terribly Wild Flowers (coll 1962) and The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver and Other Stories (coll 1965). He was very prolific in shorter forms but is known mainly for such work outside the sf field as Night and the City ( 1938) and They Die with Their Boots Clean ( 1941). (1911-1968) UK author, born in the county of Middlesex, despite stories that he was born in Russia in the USA from the 1950s, becoming an American citizen active from the mid-1930s.
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