THE BLESSINGTON METHOD AND OTHER STRANGE TALES

by Stanley Ellin

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First edition

New York: Random House, 1964 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The author's second collection of short fiction. Ten dark suspense stories including the title story, a 1956 Edgar winner. Despite his achievements as a crime novelist, Ellis is best known for his three dozen or so short stories, beginning with his macabre classic The Specialty of the House collected in his MYSTERY STORIES 1957 . Writing in THE

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