Collier, John - Ben Ray Redman (review date 1 February 1941)

Ben Ray Redman (review date 1 February 1941)

SOURCE: Redman, Ben Ray. “Imagination at Large.” Saturday Review of Literature 23, no. 15 (1 February 1941): 5.

[In the following review, Redman praises Collier's imaginative plots in the stories in Presenting Moonshine.]

This latest presentation of John Collier's own, particular, and inimitable brand of literary moonshine contains the story, “Thus I Refute Beelzy,” which recently disturbed and baffled the less imaginative readers of The Atlantic. It contains other tales, among its twenty-four, that would not only baffle and disturb but horrify them. By these same tales, more imaginative readers will be delighted, for almost every one of the double-dozen can be labeled accurately: Collier—Grade A. And that is a respectable label.

Moving among occult phenomena with the familiarity of a Machen or a Blackwood, Mr. Collier moves without their solemnity. In the...

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