The Complete Shorter Fiction

Presented here for the first time in a single volume, is the entire corpus of short fiction by Edward Heron-Allen, one of England’s most intriguing, and unnecessarily obscure, authors. From “The Suicide of Sylvester Gray,” the novella which was an inspiration for The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, a friend of Heron-Allen’s, to “The Cheetah Girl,” an outrageous masterpiece of biological science fiction, the present collection is a tour de force of the elegant, the bizarre, and the unmentionable.
With a total of thirty tales, the five volumes contained herein, many of which have previously only been obtainable for exorbitant prices, are now finally available in a proper format for connoisseurs, and the unafraid.
CONTENTS
I. KISSES OF FATE (coll 1888, 3)
1) The Suicide of Sylvester Gray (1888, chap)
2) The Story of a Younger Son
3) The Silence of Mrs. Chariton's Children
II. A FATAL FIDDLE (coll 1889, 11)
4) A Fatal Fiddle
5) The Lute Girl's Charm
6) An Atlantic Tragedy
7) An Eternal Expiation
8) My First Love
9) An Induced Dream (?)
10) A Desperate Remedy
11) My Breach of Trust
12) The Heresy of Spencer Carlyon (as "The Book" in the next collection, edited)
13) Autobiography of a Disembodied Spirit
On a Roman Balcony (as "Mano Pantea" in the next collection)
III. THE STRANGE PAPERS OF DR. BLAYRE (coll 1932, ls12)
14) The Purple Sapphire
15) The House of the Way to Hell
16) Aalila
17) The Mirror that Remembered
18) Purpura Lapillus
19) Mano Pantea
20) The Thing that Smelt
21) The Blue Cockroach
22) The Man Who Killed the Jew
21) The Demon
24) The Book
25) The Cosmic Dust
IV. THE CHEETAH GIRL (1923)
V. SOME WOMEN OF THE UNIVERSITY (zb 1934, ls4)
26) "Zum Wildbad"
27) The Boots
28) Another Squaw?
29) Passiflora Vindicta