Fearful Pleasures

Fearful Pleasures

Infobox Book
name = Fearful Pleasures
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne for "Fearful Pleasures" by A. E. Coppard
author = A. E. Coppard
illustrator =
cover_artist = Ronald Clyne
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = fantasy, horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1946
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xiii, 301 pp
isbn =
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"Fearful Pleasures" is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author A. E. Coppard. It was released in 1946 and was the first collection of the author's stories to be published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 4,033 copies.

Contents

"Fearful Pleasures" contains the following tales:

# "Foreword"
# "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me"
# "Clorinda Walks in Heaven"
# "The Elixir of Youth"
# "Simple Simon"
# "Old Martin"
# "The Bogie Man"
# "Polly Morgan"
# "The Gollan"
# "The Post Office and the Serpent"
# "Crotty"
# "Shinkwin"
# "Ahoy, Sailor Boy!"
# "Gone Away"
# "Rocky and the Bailiff"
# "Ale Celestial"
# "The Fair Young Willowy Tree"
# "Father Raven"
# "The Drum"
# "Cheese"
# "The Homeless One"
# "The Kisstruck Bogie"
# "The Tiger"
# "The Gruesome Pit"

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=19| date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=29 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=36-37 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=59 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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