Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

* AM, short for Allied Mastercomputer, a fictional supercomputer in the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )

Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

Category: English short story writers

The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.

* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.

This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

* Histoires extraordinaires ( 1968 ) ( segment Toby Dammit, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Never Bet the Devil Your Head ")

Brown was then featured in Tony Scott's short film, Beat the Devil, in 2001.

* Watch The Wanderer, an adaptation of Michel Tremblay's short story The Devil and the Mushroom

Meanwhile, as part of Ransohoff's promotion of Tate, he arranged the production of a short documentary called All Eyes on Sharon Tate, to be released at the same time as Eye of the Devil.

* The Dangerous Little Devil ( 1919 ) short

In short story Enoch Soames, first published in May 1916, an obscure writer makes a deal with the Devil to visit the Reading Room one hundred years in the future, in order to know what posterity thinks about him and his work.

He is chiefly remembered today for his Lithuanian stories, for his autobiography, and for the 1927 silent films Sunrise, based on his short story Die Reise nach Tilsit (" Trip to Tilset "), from the Collection Litauische Geschichten ( Lithuanian Stories ), and Flesh and the Devil, starring Greta Garbo, based on his play The Undying Past.

As the youngest of the Looney Tunes, the Tasmanian Devil, or ' Taz ' as he has come to be known, is generally portrayed as a dim-witted omnivore with a notoriously short temper and little patience.

Inspired by a series of unsolved murders in Namibia, this short was unfinished but footage can be viewed on the Subversive Cinema DVD release of the feature Dust Devil.

A Sabbat is also shown in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown " where Brown finds a meeting of Devil worshipers from Salem village.

* The F. Paul Wilson short story " The Barrens " features a character who claims to be searching for the Jersey Devil.

* The short story " A Christmas in Padua " in F. L. Lucas's The Woman Clothed with the Sun ( 1937 ) retells the final hours of Vittoria Accoramboni ( the original of Webster's White Devil ) in December 1585, slanting the narrative from her perspective.

*" What the Devil ", ( 1942 ), about two motorists menaced by a truck whose driver they cannot see, may have later inspired Steven Spielberg's TV movie Duel, adapted by Richard Matheson from his own short story.

" Field also published a number of short stories, including " The Holy Cross " and " Daniel and the Devil.

Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body ( 1928 ), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, " The Devil and Daniel Webster " ( 1936 ) and " By the Waters of Babylon " ( 1937 ).

Benét's fantasy short story about a devil, The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1936 ) won an O. Henry Award.

Cornwell followed this with two novels and four short stories which lie between Sharpe's Rifles ( 1809 ) and Sharpe's Devil ( 1820-21 ).

The libretto was his own, based on Poe, and the work was to be a companion piece to another short opera ( Le diable dans le beffroi ) based on Poe's " The Devil in the Belfry ".

*:( A follow-up short story to the earlier story " Devil Car ")

* Traffic with the Devil ( 1946 ), a documentary short nominated for an Academy Award.

* Devil Take Us ( 1952 ), a documentary short nominated for two Academy Awards.

* Simon Girty served as one of the jury members in Stephen Vincent Benet's short story " The Devil and Daniel Webster " and in the 1941 movie of the same title.

His short story: " Devil of a Boy " appears translated into English in " Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan " anthology, which was edited by Ellery Queen.