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Fearful Pleasures is a collection of fantasy and horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

 by author A. E. Coppard
A. E. Coppard
Alfred Edgar Coppard was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet.-Life:He was born, the son of a tailor and a housemaid, in Folkestone, and had little formal education...

. It was released in 1946
1946 in literature
The year 1946 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 7 - Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend.*Launch in the United Kingdom of Penguin Classics under the editorship of E. V...

 and was the first collection of the author's stories to be published by Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. It was published in an edition of 4,033 copies.

Contents

Fearful Pleasures contains the following tales:
  1. "Foreword"
  2. "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me"
  3. "Clorinda Walks in Heaven"
  4. "The Elixir of Youth"
  5. "Simple Simon"
  6. "Old Martin"
  7. "The Bogie Man"
  8. "Polly Morgan"
  9. "The Gollan"
  10. "The Post Office and the Serpent"
  11. "Crotty"
  12. "Shinkwin"
  13. "Ahoy, Sailor Boy!"
  14. "Gone Away"
  15. "Rocky and the Bailiff"
  16. "Ale Celestial"
  17. "The Fair Young Willowy Tree"
  18. "Father Raven"
  19. "The Drum"
  20. "Cheese"
  21. "The Homeless One"
  22. "The Kisstruck Bogie"
  23. "The Tiger"
  24. "The Gruesome Pit"
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