Miss Darkness The Great Short Crime Fiction of Fredric Brown Fredric Brown 9780982633991 Books
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MISS DARKNESS collects the finest short crime fiction of Fredric Brown. Included in this generous collection are some hard to find gems, such as The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches, The Jabberwocky Murders and The Pickled Punks. Brown’s reputation has not diminished over the years; in fact, his following has grown since his death in 1972. First editions of his books fetch hundreds of dollars, and even the vintage paperbacks go for handsome sums. This is because his strong narrative voice and character driven stories read as fresh today as the time they were written. Better known for his crime novels (his first novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, garnered an Edgar award) his short stories and novellas were in many ways superior. It is only that they are so difficult to track down that they are underappreciated. Time will eventually place Brown in the pantheon of revered American crime writers shared by Chandler, Hammett, Goodis and Cain. The publication of MISS DARKNESS marks the 40th year of Fredric Brown’s passing and at last pays ample tribute to his treasured short fiction.
Miss Darkness The Great Short Crime Fiction of Fredric Brown Fredric Brown 9780982633991 Books
Fredric Brown has always been one of my favorite authors. I started reading his Science Fiction as a young boy and fell in love with his short short stories first. I always looked for them when buying new SF magazines. If there was a story by Fredric, I immediately bought the magazine and read the story walking home, I walked everywhere in those days. Now in my older years I can no longer walk without using a walker, but I look for his novels online in the mystery field. He has the best plot twists and stories. He continues to entertain me without fail. Fredric Brown always pulls through and I am so glad that I discovered him when I was young.Product details
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Miss Darkness The Great Short Crime Fiction of Fredric Brown Fredric Brown 9780982633991 Books Reviews
There have been "Best Of" collections of Fredric Brown's work before, in the fields of both mystery and science fiction, but this one is different because it focuses more on his mid-length fiction. Most of the stories reprinted here are novella length, and are superior examples of their kind.
I personally think Brown's crime fiction is better than his science fiction, mainly because a clever idea is not sufficient for a story. Something like "Puppet Show", as good as it is, would require a bit more telling if it were a crime story.
FYI, the stories "The Jabberwocky Murders", "The Pickled Punks", and "Obit For Obie" were all expanded into novels, unread by me (respectively "NIght of the Jabberwock", "Madball", and "The Deep End").
If you get this one and the collection "Blue Murder" you'll have most of Brown's best work. Highly recommended.
This print-on-demand book is almost too big for its britches. The sheer size and heft of the book prove almost too much for the budget materials CreateSpace uses in their POD products. I'm about halfway through this book, and the binding is seriously torquing. The covers have long since curled away from the insides.
It's what's inside that counts, to quote an old ad campaign, and this bounty of classic Fredric Brown short stories and novellas is a movable feast. "Miss Darkness" the book makes a compelling case that Brown's most focused work was in his shorter pieces. I love his novels, and would defend some of them, such as the little-read "One For the Road," without exception. But the short fiction didn't allow for padding, rambling or some of the other peccadilloes of Brown's long-form work.
The haste of execution is sometimes revealed in stretches of expository dialogue, and too much use of passive verb tenses. When Brown is on, he's so on that you lose yourself in his passion. His was the religion of the search, of revelation, and in stories such as "The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches" he achieves a kind of pulp apotheosis. Once I'm deep into a Brown work, I literally cannot put it down.
Bruin's volume has generally handsome typography (I'd switch out the Teen Light font for another less obtrusive one, but that's just me), with occasional typos, and at least one passage that is repeated, which caused a momentary brain-fart for me, 'til I realized what happened. Having published five POD books myself, I know how stealthy typos and formatting woes can be.
I've been reading on this book since before Christmas, and it appears to be a guarantee of Brown bliss 'til at least Easter. I hope the binding holds out! Here's a book that should've been a hardcover--something CreateSpace's press doesn't yet offer--but if you handle it gently, you'll get a megadose of Fredric Brown delight.
I'll definitely look into some of Bruin's other POD books, which include some titles by the under-rated David Dodge and Edward Anderson. Don't let my technical nit-picks deter you--this book is a wonderful thing!
I only discovered Fredric Brown in the last seven years or so and he almost instantly became my favorite author. I immediately wanted to read everything he ever wrote. It was a sad day for me when I realized that dang near everything he ever wrote is long, LONG out of print and some of his work is impossible to find. That did not stop me from buying anything I could get my hot little hands on but the downside is that everything I buy is ancient, falling apart and pretty pricey (some are VERY expensive and simply out of my price range). I do searches on a regular basis just in case new publications come out, and there are indeed a couple of good collections that are in print and easily available but of course not everything is included in those publications.
I purchased Miss Darkness the moment I saw it on and I was ecstatic! It has beautiful and colorful artwork on the front and back cover and the pages are printed on smooth, pretty, high quality paper. Definitely a great book to display at home where people can see it! The book itself is rather large so it will not be the easiest to lug around or read in bed or the like but that is A-Okay with me. ) One great thing aside from the nice quality of the paper is that the text is not too close to the center of the pages, which is sometimes an annoying issue with bigger books. Despite the large size of the book the fact that the print is set out just a bit makes it more comfortable to read.
Overall good quality as far as the physical book itself and great collection of short stories and novels--including some that I have never been able to track down for any reasonable price or condition. YAY! Highly recommended!
STORIES INCLUDED
Miss Darkness
Little Boy Lost
Good Night, Good Knight
A Matter of Death
Get Out of Town
Granny's Birthday
Nightmare in Yellow
Cry Silence
I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen
A Little White Lye
The Joke
Little Apple Hard to Peel
Don't Look Behind You
Life and Fire
The Shaggy Dog Murders
The Spherical Ghoul
Moon Over Murder
The Djinn Murder
Handbook for Homicide
The Jabberwocky Murders
The Cat from Siam
Satan One-and-a-Half
The Case of The Dancing Sandwiches
The Laughing Butcher
Death is a Noise
The Little Lamb
Murder Set to Music
The Freak Show Murders
The Wench is Dead
The Pickled Punks
Obit for Obie
Fredric Brown has always been one of my favorite authors. I started reading his Science Fiction as a young boy and fell in love with his short short stories first. I always looked for them when buying new SF magazines. If there was a story by Fredric, I immediately bought the magazine and read the story walking home, I walked everywhere in those days. Now in my older years I can no longer walk without using a walker, but I look for his novels online in the mystery field. He has the best plot twists and stories. He continues to entertain me without fail. Fredric Brown always pulls through and I am so glad that I discovered him when I was young.
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