The Calabash of Coral Island and Other Early Stories

A collection of twenty-one previously unpublished short stories by Arthur Porges, dating from the 1930s and 1940s. The stories in this volume, compiled from Porges' original manuscripts, cover a wide range of themes and genres. This fascinating book gathers together a varied selection of stories that chronicle a young author developing and learning his craft in the years preceding his first professional sale.

Contents:

• The Crabs of Coral Island
• The Calabash of Coral Island
• Mind or Matter
• Was Peters' Watch Right?
• The Glass House Cure
• The Coward
• The Peasant Madonna
• Seaside Flirtation
• Pierre Renard's Christmas
• The True Story of Hercules
• The Tooth
• Return to Me
• The Surgical Cracksman and the Crime School
• A Dictator Dies
• When the Sleeper Wakes
• A Quick Death
• No Survivors
• The Terror of the Mindanao Depths
• Denizens of the Drop
• Monsters of the Grasslands
• The Soulless Ones: Vespa