Gerald Kersh
(1911 - 1968)Gerald Kersh was born in Teddington-on-Thames, London and died penniless as an American citizen in Kingston, New York. He wrote over 1,000 articles, 400 short stories, and 19 novels. His account of infantry training They Die With Their Boots Clean (1941), became an instant best-seller during World War Two, and launched Kersh on a glittering career. Tax, health and personal problems in later life did not prevent Kersh from writing forgotten masterpieces like Prelude To A Certain Midnight (1947), Fowlers End (1957), The Implacable Hunter (1961) And The Angel And The Cuckoo (1966)
Novels
Jews Without Jehovah (1934)
Men Are So Ardent (1936)
Night and the City (1938)
They Die with Their Boots Clean (1941)
The Nine Lives of Bill Nelson (1942)
Brain and Ten Fingers (1943)
The Dead Look On (1943)
Faces in a Dusty Picture (1944)
An Ape, a Dog, and a Serpent (1945)
The Weak and the Strong (1945)
The Song of the Flea (1948)
The Thousand Deaths Of Mr Small (1951)
The Secret Masters (1953)
aka The Great Wash
Fowler's End (1957)
The Implacable Hunter (1961)
A Long Cool Day in Hell (1965)
Angel and Cuckoo (1967)
Men Are So Ardent (1936)
Night and the City (1938)
They Die with Their Boots Clean (1941)
The Nine Lives of Bill Nelson (1942)
Brain and Ten Fingers (1943)
The Dead Look On (1943)
Faces in a Dusty Picture (1944)
An Ape, a Dog, and a Serpent (1945)
The Weak and the Strong (1945)
The Song of the Flea (1948)
The Thousand Deaths Of Mr Small (1951)
The Secret Masters (1953)
aka The Great Wash
Fowler's End (1957)
The Implacable Hunter (1961)
A Long Cool Day in Hell (1965)
Angel and Cuckoo (1967)
Collections
I Got References (1939)
Selected Stories (1943)
The Battle Of The Singing Men (1944)
The Horrible Dummy (1944)
Sergeant Nelson Of The Guards (1945)
Clean, Bright, and Slightly Oiled (1946)
Neither Man nor Dog (1946)
Prelude to a Certain Midnight (1947)
Sad Road to the Sea (1947)
Clock without Hands (1949)
The Brazen Bull (1952)
The Brighton Monster (1953)
Guttersnipe (1954)
Men without Bones (1955)
On an Odd Note (1958)
The Best of Gerald Kersh (1960)
The Ugly Face of Love (1960)
The Terribly Wild Flowers (1962)
More Than Once Upon a Time (1964)
The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver (1965)
Nightshades and Damnations (1968)
Selected Stories (1943)
The Battle Of The Singing Men (1944)
The Horrible Dummy (1944)
Sergeant Nelson Of The Guards (1945)
Clean, Bright, and Slightly Oiled (1946)
Neither Man nor Dog (1946)
Prelude to a Certain Midnight (1947)
Sad Road to the Sea (1947)
Clock without Hands (1949)
The Brazen Bull (1952)
The Brighton Monster (1953)
Guttersnipe (1954)
Men without Bones (1955)
On an Odd Note (1958)
The Best of Gerald Kersh (1960)
The Ugly Face of Love (1960)
The Terribly Wild Flowers (1962)
More Than Once Upon a Time (1964)
The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver (1965)
Nightshades and Damnations (1968)
Anthologies containing stories by Gerald Kersh
The Other Side of the Moon (1949)
Best SF 2 (1956)
Tales of the Supernatural (1962)
The 5th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1964)
The 8th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1967)
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
Eleven Great Horror Stories (1969)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents : A Month of Mystery Book 2 (1970)
The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Ghost Movies (1995)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls (1995)
The Unexplained (1998)
Best SF 2 (1956)
Tales of the Supernatural (1962)
The 5th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1964)
The 8th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1967)
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
Eleven Great Horror Stories (1969)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents : A Month of Mystery Book 2 (1970)
The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Ghost Movies (1995)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls (1995)
The Unexplained (1998)
Short stories
| Apprentice Assassin | |||
| 'Busto is a Ghost, Too Mean to Give Us a Fright!' | |||
| Carnival on the Downs | |||
| Collector's Piece | |||
| The Copper Dahlia | |||
| The Crewel Needle | |||
| Crooked Bone | |||
| The Dancing Doll | |||
| The Eye | |||
| The Hack | |||
| In a Room Without Walls | |||
| The Incorruptible Tailor | |||
| The King Who Collected Clocks | |||
| Ladies or Clothes | |||
| The Madwoman | |||
| The Monster | |||
| Neither Man Nor Dog [short story] | |||
| Ou Est The Corpse De Ma Tante? | |||
| The Queen of Pig Island | |||
| River of Riches | |||
| The Sympathetic Souse | |||
| Teeth and Nails | |||
| Terraces | |||
| Thicker than Water | |||
| The Ugly Face of Love [short story] | |||
| The White-Washed Room | |||
| Comrade Death (1938) | |||
| The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy (1939) | |||
| Sad Road to the Sea [short story] (1940) | |||
| All that One Man Remembered (1944) | |||
| The Battle of the Singing Men [short story] (1944) | |||
| A Bit of a Change (1944) | |||
| The Bitter Seas (1944) | |||
| The Devil That Troubled the Chess-Board (1944) | |||
| The Drunk and the Blind (1944) | |||
| Dudelsack (1944) | |||
| The Evil Destiny of Dr Polacek (1944) | |||
| Hairy Cohen (1944) | |||
| Irongut and the Brown Mouse (1944) | |||
| The Last Coin of Mr Baer (1944) | |||
| Lunatic's Broth (1944) | |||
| The Musicians (1944) | |||
| A Ruby Worth Eleven Hundred Pounds (1944) | |||
| Shaggy Yellow Dog (1944) | |||
| Slaves (1944) | |||
| The Stone (1944) | |||
| The Ten Old Tigers (1944) | |||
| The Undefeated (1944) | |||
| The White Flash (1944) | |||
| The Woman in the Mud (1944) | |||
| The Epistle of Simple Simon (1947) | |||
| The Ape and the Mystery (1948) | |||
| Clock Without Hands [short story] (1949) | |||
| Fairy Gold (1949) | |||
| Flight to the World's End (1949) | |||
| The Terrible Ride of Colonel Tessier (1952) | |||
| The Brighton Monster [short story] (1953) | |||
| Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? (1953) | |||
| Men Without Bones [short story] (1954) | |||
| The Oxoxoco Bottle (1957) | |||
| Prophet Without Honour (1958) | |||
| The Shady Life of Annibal (1959) | |||
| The Unsafe Deposit Box (1962) |