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Squirrels Have Bright Eyes

John Collier

First published January 1941
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"The hero courts an amazonian society lady, who is also a famous huntress, and he spends all his days pretending to be one of her stuffed trophies just to be near her. At the same time the villain Captain Fenshawe-Fanshawe makes his moves to seduce her." (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://loneanimator.deviantart.com/art/The-Offspring-622223534">Loneanimator</a>)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1941 Cover Presenting Moonshine The Viking Press Collection 273
January 1941 Presenting Moonshine Macmillan of Canada Collection
January 1941 Cover Presenting Moonshine Macmillan and Co. Collection
November 1951 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday Collection 80
April 1953 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 111
1957 Presenting Moonshine Rupert Hart-Davis Collection 171
December 1957 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 82
December 1960 Help!, #5 December 1960 General Promotions Co. MAGAZINE 14
1963 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection
1965 Cover Of Demons and Darkness Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
1965 Cover Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 80
1969 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 91
1969 Cover De Dame op de Schimmel De Arbeiderspers Collection 122
November 1972 Cover The John Collier Reader Alfred A. Knopf Collection 255
September 1975 Cover The Best of John Collier Pocket Books Collection
1980 Cover Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 80
March 1981 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday / SFBC Collection 88
May 2003 Cover Fancies and Goodnights New York Review of Books Collection 91