Evening Primrose (1940) [Short Story]
by John Collier
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Summary
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Wishing to escape the cruel outside world, a sensitive poet decides to spend the rest of his life hidden away in Bracey's Giant Emporium, a large New York department store. Much to his surprise, he soon discovers an unusual society already established there.
Original title: Evening Primrose
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Fancies and Goodnights (1951) [Collection]
Author: John Collier
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night (1961) [Anthology]
Authors: M. R. James
, Ray Bradbury
, Roald Dahl
, William Hope Hodgson
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Frank Belknap Long
, Henry Slesar
, John Collier
, Evelyn Waugh
, Margaret Millar
, Brett Halliday
, Pauline C. Smith
, Jerome Bixby
, Robert Arthur
, Philip MacDonald
, Will F. Jenkins
, George Langelaan
, John B. L. Goodwin
, Ruth Chatterton
, Cyril Hume
, Gouverneur Morris
, Edward L. Perry
, Margaret Ronan
, Robert Trout
Dark Descent, the (1987) [Anthology]
Authors: M. R. James
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Stephen King
, Charles Dickens
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ambrose Bierce
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, William Faulkner
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Shirley Jackson
, Henry James
, Edith Nesbit
, Edith Wharton
, Harlan Ellison
, Clive Barker
, Tanith Lee
, Thomas M. Disch
, Algernon Blackwood
, Ramsey Campbell
, Robert W. Chambers
, Charles L. Grant
, Fritz Leiber
, Robert Bloch
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, Richard Matheson
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Gene Wolfe
, Flannery O'Connor
, Michael Bishop
, Manly Wade Wellman
, Joanna Russ
, Karl Edward Wagner
, John Collier
, Ivan Turgenev
, Michael Shea
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
, Dennis Etchison
, Walter de la Mare
, Lucy Lane Clifford
, Fitz-James O'Brien
, Robert Aickman
, Russell Kirk
, Oliver Onions
, Robert Hichens
Notes:
- Broadcast on BBC Radio, 3 January 1946
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