THE APE, THE IDIOT & OTHER PEOPLE.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8] 9-291 [292: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original red pictorial cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. This legendary collection of short fiction preserves the "morbid and peculiar" contributions to the short story genre for which Morrow was famous. Includes the author's best known tales, "The Monster Maker" and "Over an Absinthe Bottle." Morrow's short fiction influenced the work of his friend and now better-known fellow writer Ambrose Bierce who praised his "taste for the shadow side of life." [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1200. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1565. Barron (ed). Horror Literature 2-69. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 585. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 161. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 292-93. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-174. Bleiler (1978), p. 144. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Wright (III) 3850. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1827]. Penciled note on front paste down comparing favorably one of the stories to a Bierce story, mild wear with a little fraying to spine ends, some darkening to spine panel and slight lean (quite common to this book), a bright, nearly fine copy of an attractive book. (30776). Item #30776
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