In a message dated 11/18/2002 11:09:51 PM Eastern Standard
Time,
buff@pobox.com writes:
> On 19 November 2002, Mark Hall wrote:> > :
Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler
Fiction Everyman's> : Library, $27.50> > Does anyone
have a table of contents for this? Does it > include
the> cannibalized stories from KILLER IN THE
RAIN?
At one time I thought Amazon had the table of contents on
this listed, but when I went to look it up I discovered that
wasn't the case. A review on Barnes and Novble does mention
the following:
<<<<<< "This definitive omnibus of
Chandler's short fiction, prefaced by John Bayley's suavely
general, very English introduction, makes previous
collections look downright niggardly. In addition to the
eight stories of Killer in the Rain (1964), which Chandler
"cannibalized" (his term) for The Big Sleep, Farewell, My
Lovely, and The Lady in the Lake, and the 13 non-cannibalized
stories in the Library of America Stories and Early Novels
(1995), it includes "The Pencil"-Chandler's last story, and
practically the only one that stars Philip Marlowe and not
some earlier version of the peerless shamus like Mallory, Ted
Carmady, or John Dalmas-and three never-before-reprinted
tales. It's easy to see why "The Bronze Door" (1939),
"Professor Bingo's Snuff" (1951), and "English Summer" (1974)
have sunk into obscurity, since all three are atypical-the
first a supernaturally-tinged fable of alternative lives, the
second an equally paranormal account of a cuckold who tak! es
advantage of an invisibility potion to take control, the
third a romantic idyll that ends in murder-though all are
full of characteristically male dreamers and female schemers.
Fans inadvisedly imbibing the rest of the collection nonstop
will see Chandler's rapid evolution from the violent
fumblings of "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" to the pulp formula
mastery of "Goldfish" to the matchless urban poetry of "Red
Wind" and "I'll Be Waiting." Chandler thought of himself as a
novelist who also wrote short fiction, and this collection
won't change that verdict. But having all 25 of the world's
greatest pulp writer's checkered, indispensable stories
available in a single volume is a pleasure long overdue."
<<<<<<<
So apparenlty the volume does contain the cannabalized
stories. I'm planning on getting it for "The Bronze Door"
which I've been searching for for a long time. Just to see
what kind of story RC got published in UNKNOWN. Steve
Harbin
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