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.

* 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.

Down the narrow, short street that extends from the main gate of the fortress is the Chiesa di Sant ' Agostino with its simple Romanesque façade, also built in the 13th century.

Down by 16 entering the fourth quarter, and 10 with a minute and a half to go, the Lakers mounted a furious rally in the closing moments which fell just short.

* We Faw Down ( 1928 short )

( short for Association of World Super Men ) alongside Tiki Torch and Comrade Red ( who apparently reformed ) where they were seen with other superheroes exclusive to the show ( like United Kingdom's Big Ben, Jamaica's Ya-Mon, Africa's Mandingo, Australia's Down Under Mate, Japan's E-Male, China's Mushu Gai Man, Mexico's Mucho Muchacho, and other unnamed generic superheroes ) and two characters that look like Space Ghost and Birdman.

Blabbermouth. net reviewer Borivoj Krgin stated, " Down II appears to have been thrown together more haphazardly, with much of the material falling short of the standard set by the Down's classic debut offering.

The success of the record was sparked from Ron Isley being featured on the R. Kelly hit " Down Low " and Isley's music video character, " Mr. Frank Biggs ", or " Mr. Biggs " for short.

This material-which included early iterations of the songs " Walkin ’ with Jesus ", " Come Down Easy " and " Thing'll Never be the Same " – was used for a short demo tape entitled For All The Fucked Up Children Of The World We Give You Spacemen 3.

Reissues of color Looney Tunes originally released in September 1948 or later would have the 1946 ending version of " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " playing over the closing rings, and 1945 opening music playing over the opening ( again those of the given reissue season ), revealing the fact that the cartoon was originally a Looney Tunes short.

After playing a short acoustic set, Cornell joined Vedder and the rest of the band to perform " Hunger Strike " and " Reach Down ".

( His 1939 movie short for Vitaphone, Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, features the entire band singing " Down with Nola.

Many of his movies, like the short film Down to the Cellar, are made from a child's perspective, while at the same time often having a truly disturbing and even aggressive nature.

In some parts of County Down, the púca is manifested as a short, disfigured goblin who demands a share of the harvest ; in County Laois, it appears as a monstrous bogeyman, while in Waterford and Wexford the púca appears as an eagle with a huge wingspan and in Roscommon as a black goat.

Instead of cutting a short road tunnel through Twyford Down, the entire escarpment was carved-out and the motorway placed through it.

Because of the gradient the new Up line followed a different route ( with a short tunnel at Saunderton ) from the existing single track, which became the Down line ( with a few changes because of the gradient or for other reasons ).

Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and his short story Truncat.

David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea ( 1979 ) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil.

* Doctorow's short story " Truncat " is also set in the Bitchun Society, sometime after the events of Down and Out.

In addition to various essays and short stories, his prose output included Going Native, a satire on English social mores, Mad Grandeur and Mr. Petunia, two period narratives composed with an eye to having them optioned as Hollywood films, and Rolling Down the Lea and It Isn't This Time Of Year At All !, two loosely-constructed memoirs.

He produced the 13-issue Pantheon for Lone Star Press and wrote a pair of short novels about the modern adventures of the hero Beowulf, and a fantasy novel Down the Mysterly River published by the Austin, Texas writer's collective, Clockwork Storybook, of which Willingham was a founding member.

" In the same year, he appeared in Down Liberty Road, a short commercial travelogue produced by Greyhound Lines to promote their Scenicruiser buses.

* This is a short video of Joe Brown in George Smiths film ' Upside Down Wales '

En malas compañías ( translation: In Bad Company or With a Bad Crowd ), titled in English as Doors Cut Down, is a 2000 Spanish short comedy film directed by Antonio Hens.