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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)

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)
   Nightshade and Damnations (1968)

Anthologies containing stories by Gerald Kersh

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)

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