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Pictures in the Fire

John Collier

First published November 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"Depicts Hollywood as the center of contractual arrangements with the Devil, a Hollywood agent selling the souls of his clients in film options, and a finicky actress so distracting that the Devil himself fails to renew an option for a soul." (eNotes.com)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1951 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday Collection 60
April 1953 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 84
December 1957 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 63
1958 Cover Pictures in the Fire Rupert Hart-Davis Collection 102
1963 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection
1965 Cover Of Demons and Darkness Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
1969 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 70
1969 Cover De Dame op de Schimmel De Arbeiderspers Collection 94
November 1972 Cover The John Collier Reader Alfred A. Knopf Collection 234
September 1975 Cover The Best of John Collier Pocket Books Collection
March 1981 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday / SFBC Collection 66
May 2003 Cover Fancies and Goodnights New York Review of Books Collection 70