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 ).

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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.

* Watch the National Film Board of Canada animated short Loon Dreaming

* The Museum has appeared repeatedly in the fiction of dark fantasy author Caitlín R. Kiernan, including appearances in her fifth novel Daughter of Hounds, her work on the DC / Vertigo comic book The Dreaming (# 47, " Trinket "), and many of her short stories, including " Valentia " and " Onion " ( both collected in To Charles Fort, With Love, 2005 ).

The Internet Movie Database has Healesville and its environs as the filming locations for a number of films and TV programmes: the Australian TV series Young Ramsay ( 1977 ), Felicity ( 1979 ), the natural history TV series Life on Earth ( 1979 ), Frog Dreaming ( 1986 ), the Australian TV short film Harry's War ( 1999 ), and Killer Elite ( 2011 ).

His 30-minute short film Lucid Dreaming, helmed by director Chang of 2008 feature Death Bell, was shot particularly for his fans in China and Japan and released on DVD in early 2012.

Another of her short stories, Terminal Avenue, ( which was not included in Traplines ) was published in the anthology of postcolonial science fiction and fantasy So Long Been Dreaming.

Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will recognize the 1956 show as the Motorama featured in the short film Design for Dreaming.

The title sequence made extensive use of clips from the short film Design for Dreaming, as well as other similar archive footage.

He would also play the lead in the BBC Scotland feature-length adaptation of the William McIlvanney short story " Dreaming " ( 1990 ).

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

His mother Irene Worley (" Lolly ") was a writer of short stories who published under the name " Mary James ".

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

On December 21, 1999 a short piece, written by Watterson to mark the forthcoming end of the comic strip Peanuts, was published in the Los Angeles Times.

They were also published in PC Plus magazine for a short time, and several books of the stories have also been released.

Two years later, Fate magazine published " Sea Mystery at Our Back Door ", a short article by George X.

While he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

" The name was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story " Cyberpunk ," published in 1983.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

An early treatment was the short story Autofac by Philip K. Dick, published in 1955, which precedes von Neumann's original paper about self-reproducing machines.

By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.

In contrast, Bruce Edwards published a short series of articles in 1990 based mostly on deduction and experiments in trying to recreate his experiences as a restaurant customer.

Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.

Stoker's posthumously published short story " Dracula's Guest ", known as the deleted first chapter to Dracula, shows a more obvious and intact debt to " Carmilla ": Both stories are told in the first person.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").