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FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS (364 pp.)-John Collier-Doubleday...
When it comes to spook literature, the English are still the best in the business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
What in the name of God has happened to the intelligence of men in this country who have been known in many circles as having much intelligence? After reading Collier's preview of World War III, I could have vomited at the lack of taste, the presence of fear, the idiocy of fantastic imaginations of men who, up to now, had rated considerably higher in my esteem...
...Many a reader was sure to feel that Collier's pat, 'inevitable' outcome of the war made 'Eggnog' somewhat hard to swallow...
...Paris, L'Observateur thought it heard war cries from across the Atlantic, and it didn't like them. What alarmed the leftish (but non-Communist), highbrow weekly was Collier's fictional account of World War III (TIME, Oct. 29). L'Observateur diagnosed the Collier's issue as a symptom of a general U.S. psychoneurosis, lampooned the Collier's act, showed Russia winning World War III. L'Ob-servateur's most striking illustration: a drawing of General Eisenhower surrendering to a Russian officer. Said I'Observateur: Collier's "rendered a great...