The Complete Shorter Fiction

of Edward Heron-Allen

Presented here for the first time in a single volume, is the entire corpus of short fiction by Edward Heron-Allen, one of England’s most intriguing, and unnecessarily obscure, authors. From “The Suicide of Sylvester Gray,” the novella which was an inspiration for The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, a friend of Heron-Allen’s, to “The Cheetah Girl,” an outrageous masterpiece of biological science fiction, the present collection is a tour de force of the elegant, the bizarre, and the unmentionable.

With a total of thirty tales, the five volumes contained herein, many of which have previously only been obtainable for exorbitant prices, are now finally available in a proper format for connoisseurs, and the unafraid.

About the Author
Edward Heron-Allen (1861-1943) was an English polymath, writer, scientist and scholar. Writing under a number of pseudonyms, as well as his own name, his works cover numerous forms of literature and fields, including those of Persian poetry, violins, chiromancy, and foraminifera, though he is probably best remembered today for his forays into fantastic fiction under the pseudonym of Christopher Blayre. His publications include Chiromancy, or the science of palmistry (1883), Violin-Making, as it was and is (1884), the volume of poetry The Love-Letters of a Vagabond (1889), a translation from the Persian of The Lament of Bābā Tāhir (1902), Barnacles in Nature and in Myth (1928), The Strange Papers of Dr. Blayre (1932), and Asparagus as a Hobby for Amateurs (1934).

Paperback, 580 pages
Release date, October 1st, 2019
Price: $37.00

Hardcover, 582 pages. Limited to 120 copies
Release date, October 1st, 2019
Price: $54.00