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ACTION AND PASSION.
New York, Chicago: A. L. Burt, Publishers, n.d., [c. 1930s]. Octavo original orange cloth, spine stamped in black. Later edition.
ODD -- BUT EVEN SO: STORIES STRANGER THAN FICTION.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-337 [338: blank] [note: pagination starts with free end paper], original greenish gray cloth, front and spine stamped in dark orange, top edge stained orange, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First U. S. edition. Collects fifteen short stories in two sections labeled "Queer" and "Quaint." "A miscellaneous collection of macabre and mainstream material which includes three supernatural pieces." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 504.
ROUGH SHOOTING: TRUE TALES & STRANGE STORIES.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1944. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [9-10] 11-317 [318] [319-320: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First U. S. edition. A mixed collection of twenty-two supernatural and adventure stories, including several of Wren's best weird tales. The occult and supernatural stories include "Man-Eating Saviour," "The Inexplicable Disappearance of Ai Toon," "The Joy Riders," " The Fatal Bite," "Elephantasy," "Fear," "A Franc's Worth of Gas," and "Robert Replies." "Good commercial work with excellent local color." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1739. The author's weird and fantastic fiction, collected here and in several other books, has been overshadowed by his popular writings about the French Foreign Legion, in which he served. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-215. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 503. Bleiler (1978), p. 212. Reginald 15636.