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Come and Go Mad

Fredric Brown

First published July 1949
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Journalist George Vine claims having lost all memory previous to a car accident three years ago. Yet, he clearly remembers having been Napoleon Bonaparte until he fell asleep in his tent after the battle of Lodi. When his boss suggests he investigates a certain matter in a psychiatric hospital, he has no difficulty in finding a good motive to be admitted inside. The question is: is he really suffering from paranoia? Or is it something else?

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1949 Cover Weird Tales, July 1949 Weird Tales MAGAZINE 4
July 1951 Cover Space on My Hands Shasta Collection 181
1953 Cover Space on My Hands Corgi Collection 191
January 1953 Cover Space on My Hands Bantam Books Collection 191
January 1953 Cover Space on My Hands Bantam Books Collection 191
February 1961 Cover The Unexpected Pyramid Books Anthology 119
November 1962 Cover The Unexpected Pyramid Books Anthology 119
October 1966 Cover Beyond the Curtain of Dark Four Square Books Anthology 110
1968 Cover Daymares Lancer Books Collection 100
November 1972 Cover Beyond the Curtain of Dark Pinnacle Books Anthology 110
November 1972 Cover Beyond the Curtain of Dark New English Library Anthology 110
January 1977 Cover The Best of Fredric Brown Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 240
May 1977 Cover The Best of Fredric Brown Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 271
May 1980 Cover Space on My Hands Bantam Books Collection 191
March 1981 Cover A Treasury of Modern Fantasy Avon Anthology 193
May 1981 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology 276
May 1981 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural Arbor House Anthology 276
September 1982 Cover The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown New English Library Collection 196
1985 Cover Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural Galahad Books Anthology 276
1985 Cover Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural Castle Books Anthology 276
June 1988 Cover Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural Galahad Books Anthology 276
July 1988 Cover Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 531
October 1991 Cover Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Quill / William Morrow Anthology 276
November 1991 Cover The Giant Book of Horror Stories Magpie Books Anthology 276
August 1992 Cover Masters of Fantasy Galahad Books Anthology 193
June 1993 Space on My Hands Lightyear Press Collection
1994 Cover Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural Galahad Books Anthology 276
October 1994 Cover Masters of Fantasy Bristol Park Books Anthology 193
February 2001 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 291
October 2001 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 291
July 2002 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 291
December 2008 Cover Madball Centipede Press Collection 243
October 2010 Cover Masters of Horror & the Supernatural: The Great Tales Bristol Park Books Anthology
June 2011 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 291
2012 Cover Weird Tales Pulp Classics on DVD Anthology 4|47004
November 2013 Cover The Fredric Brown Megapack: 33 Classic Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy Wildside Press Collection
July 2014 Cover The Fredric Brown Megapack: 33 Classic Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy Wildside Press Collection