Witch's Money (Signed)
New York: The Viking Press, 1940. Limited edition, one of 350 copies. Hardcover. Octavo. 30 pages. Near fine, with most of original clear plastic dust jacket present. Some slight fading along spine and top edges of boards, tiny bumps to fore corner tips.
Signed by Collier on limitation page.
This short story revolves around rural villagers' misunderstanding the nature of a checkbook when a visitor pays for a house by writing a check.
Originally published in The New Yorker, this is the story's first appearance in book form, prior to its inclusion in Collier's short story collection "Presenting Moonshine" in 1941.
John Collier was an English writer and master of weird and fantastic stories. His stories appeared in The New Yorker in the 1930s to 1950s and he spent much time in Hollywood writing for film and television.
Collier's stories are so well crafted that he is considered by many to be "a writer's writer," particularly admired by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, Anthony Burgess, and Michael Chabon.
Collier's stories are broadly fantasies but are really of their own kind. Some of them were written for or adapted as episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone.
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