Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter (Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps #7) by Fredric Brown
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Overview: One of Fredric Brown’s great gifts was the ability to create an aura of fantasy, a sense of the supernatural, in stories that weren’t fantasies at all. He did write science fiction and fantasy, of course, but the straight mysteries too were often colored by hints of the unearthly. All of the stories in this volume include fantastical elements—vampires, walking corpses, voodoo—but with one exception none is fantasy or science fiction. (The exception, "Death Is A White Rabbit,” is a fascinating introduction to a science fiction concept Fredric Brown would bring to fruition in the novel The Mind Thing.) Otherwise, the stories contain two characters who write about fantasy, and three mad scientists living in isolated country houses (Lord knows who first came up with that character), and a funeral parlor, and a haunted house, and a … Well. You get the idea.
But the stories contain more than that, or why bother with them? They are more than the exigencies of the pulp market, more than dated cultural artifacts. They are also lively, clever, spooky, plausible and full of fun, both the writer’s and the reader’s. They are Fredric Brown. Enjoy.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Incredible Bomber
Death is a White Rabbit
Death of a Vampire
Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter
Twice-Killed Corpse
A Lock of Satan’s Hair
The Ghost Breakers
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