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Biography:
Born in England in 1901. He was the poetry editor for Time and Tide in the 1920s and 1930s. He moved to America in 1935, where he became a screenwriter for Hollywood. Today he is best known for His Monkey Wife (1930), a satirical novel about an explorer who marries a chimpanzee, as well as short stories which combine fantasy and black humor. One of these, "Green Thoughts", about a plant that eats people, is the source of the film Little Shop of Horrors. He died in 1980.
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Anthologies:
- Pocket Book of Science Fiction, the (1943)
- Fifty Great Short Stories (1952)
- Short Story Masterpieces (1954)
- 44 Irish Short Stories: An Anthology of Irish Short Fiction from Yeats to Frank O'Connor (1955)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night (1961)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1963)
- Chamber Of Horrors, a (1967)
- Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
- 11 Great Horror Stories (1969)
- 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, the (1971)
- Quickie Thrillers (1975)
- From the Archives of Evil: Number 2 (1976)
- Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants (1976)
- 10th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories, the (1977)
- Treasury of Modern Fantasy, a (1981)
- Black Water (1983)
- Dark Descent, the (1987)
- Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988)
- Ellery Queen's More Murder on Cue (1988)
- Seaserpents! (1989)
- Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century (1990)
- Short Sharp Shocks (1990)
- Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves (1991)
- Magicats II (1991)
- Canine Crimes (1993)
- Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, the (1993)
- Wizards of Odd, the (1996)
- Flying Sorcerers, the (1997)
- Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings, the (1997)
- 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, the (1998)
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