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Gomez

Gerald Kersh

First published March 1943
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Borderline speculative fiction (a precursor to 'Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?', 1956). A man mysteriously survives many shootings, stabbings and accidents that would normally have killed him.

According to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Vol 40 No 3, September 1962, this was also published under the title 'The Man Death Forgot' in 1946, publication unknown; the story appeared in that issue of EQMM as 'The Unkillable Man'.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1943 Cover Selected Stories Staples and Staples Collection
March 1946 Cover Neither Man Nor Dog William Heinemann Collection 192
March 1946 Neither Man Nor Dog The Ryerson Press Collection
September 1962 Cover Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1962 MAGAZINE 35
January 1963 Cover Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (UK), January 1963 Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd MAGAZINE 31
February 1963 Mystère #181, February 1963 MAGAZINE
1969 Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin 18 Heyne Anthology
2015 Cover Neither Man Nor Dog Valancourt Books Collection 195
April 2015 Cover Neither Man Nor Dog Valancourt Books Collection |35