The Quick and the Dead (collection)

Infobox Book
name = The Quick and the Dead
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for "The Quick and the Dead"
author = Vincent Starrett
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cover_artist = Frank Utpatel
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fiction, Horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1965
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 145 pp
isbn = NA
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"The Quick and the Dead" is a collection of stories by author Vincent Starrett. It was released in 1965 and was the author's only collection of stories published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,047 copies. The stories were originally published between 1920 and 1932 in various pulp magazines.

Contents

"The Quick and the Dead" contains the following tales:

# "The Fugitive"
# "The Man in the Cask"
# "The Quick and the Dead"
# "The Sinless Village"
# "The Head of Cromwell"
# "Penelope"
# "The Elixir of Death"
# "Coffins for Two"
# "The Tattooed Man"
# "Footsteps of Fear"

References

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*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=96-97 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4