In this story two friends working in a research library befriend a newcomer from out of town, he is difficult to get to know but eventually opens up to reveal that he has recently been acquitted in a big murder trial he tells his new friends it was a particularly frenzied murderous attack and they cannot believe that there new friend would be capable of such a crime, he invites them up to his apartment and mixes some drinks.Ībout half way through the collection I came across Great Possibilities and things began to get a little weirder stuffed animals coming to life. Several of the best stories are crime dramas for example The Touch of Nutmeg Makes it.
They are generally well written with Collier showing his screenwriting skills by introducing his scenarios quickly and effectively. Some of them were adapted for the television series Alfred Hitchcock presents and they would have been equally at home in The Twilight Zone. The stories could be classed as entertainments with many of them having elements of fancy. John Collier was British born but lived for a time in Hollywood where he earned his living as a screenwriter for film and television, but he had success as a short story writer with many of these stories being published in the New Yorker. They now appear in a kindle version in two volumes. Another book from 1951, but these short stories were mostly written a decade or two earlier.
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