The Small Assassin
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The Small Assassin is a short story collection by Ray Bradbury
. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Dime Mystery Magazine, Weird Tales
, Harper's, Mademoiselle
and the book Dark Carnival.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Dime Mystery Magazine, Weird Tales
Weird Tales
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
, Harper's, Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle (magazine)
Mademoiselle was an influential women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications....
and the book Dark Carnival.
Contents
- "The Small AssassinThe Small Assassin (short story)"The Small Assassin" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the November, 1946 issue of Dime Mystery. It was collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected in the anthologies The October Country, The Small Assassin, The Stories of Ray...
" - "The Next in Line"
- "The Lake"
- "The Crowd"
- "Jack-in-the-Box"
- "The Man Upstairs"
- "The Cistern"
- "The Tombstone"
- "The Smiling People"
- "The Handler"
- "Let’s Play 'Poison'"
- "The Night"
- "The Dead Man"