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Fredric Brown

First published July 1961
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A pharmacist sells untraceable poison to would-be murderers, but there is a catch.

Not an SF story per se, but often appears in collections of Brown's SF. First published in Playboy, May 1961

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1961 Cover Nightmares and Geezenstacks Bantam Books Collection 31
1962 Cover Nightmares and Geezenstacks Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 31
March 1979 Cover Nightmares and Geezenstacks Bantam Books Collection 42
September 1982 Cover The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown New English Library Collection 295
1985 Cover Carnival of Crime: The Best Mystery Stories of Fredric Brown Southern Illinois University Press Collection 286
October 1987 Cover And the Gods Laughed Phantasia Press Collection 303
October 1987 Cover And the Gods Laughed Phantasia Press Collection 303
1991 Cover Stench of Kerosene and Other Short Short Stories Cambridge University Press Anthology 125
February 2001 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 602
October 2001 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 602
July 2002 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 602
June 2011 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 602