Tales from Gavagan's Bar

L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt

Fantasy Science Fiction Short Stories

Tales from Gavagan's Bar was first published in 1953. The expanded edition was published in 1978.

Contents:

  • The Gift of God
  • Corpus Delectable
  • The Better Mousetrap
  • Elephas Frumenti
  • Beasts of Bourbon
  • The Love-Nest
  • The Stone of the Sages
  • Where To, Please?
  • The Palimpsest of St. Augustine
  • More Than Skin Deep
  • No Forwarding Address
  • When the Night Wind Howls (retitled Methought I Heard a Voice in the expanded edition)
  • My Brother's Keeper
  • A Dime Brings You Success
  • The Rape of the Lock
  • All That Glitters
  • Here, Putzi!
  • Gin Comes in Bottles
  • The Black Ball
  • The Green Thumb
  • Caveat Emptor
  • The Eve of St. John
  • The Ancestral Amethyst


Added in the expanded edition:

  • The Untimely Toper
  • Oh, Say! Can You See?
  • Bell, Book, and Candle
  • There'd Be Thousands in It
  • One Man's Meat
  • The Weissenbroch Spectacles
  • By and About (afterword)

 

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1953
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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907–2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. His writing career spanned over fifty years. He wrote novels and works of nonfiction.