About

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati. E is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form, stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. Is classic science fiction novel What Mad Universe (1949) is a parody of pulp SF story conventions.

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. He was born in Cincinnati. He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form, stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings.

Here Comes a Candle , first published in 1950, is Fredric Brown at his most unconventional and audacious – a novel that, in many respects, was far ahead of its time Psychologically complex, unconventionally told in an array of stylistic variations, it is a tour de force with a savagely ironic ending not to be soon forgotten and offers a grim look at the underside of a sanitized post-World War II America ith an illuminating new introduction by Bill Pronzini that provides a lot of biographical details, a bonus short story, (the savage The Joke ) and a rare essay by Brown.

Bound in three-piece cloth with a full color dustjacket.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Bill Pronzini.
• Introduction by Bill Pronzini.
• Includes a bonus short story and an essay by Brown.
• Dustjacket, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• Here Comes a Candle. Centipede Press page for Here Comes a Candle
• Fredric Brown (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Fredric Brown