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.

Starting in 1980, she also began to collaborate with Alan Shalleck on a series of short films featuring Curious George and more than two dozen additional books.

In addition to his novels, he also authored three acclaimed short story collections: Girl with Curious Hair ( 1989 ), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ( 1999 ) and Oblivion ( 2004 ).

In 2008, his recordings of " Ostrich Walk " and " There'll Come a Time " with Bix Beiderbecke were included on the soundtrack to the Brad Pitt movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story from Tales of the Jazz Age.

In 2008, his composition " There'll Come a Time ( Wait and See )" with Miff Mole was used in the soundtrack to the Academy Award-nominated movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald from Tales of the Jazz Age.

In the short story That Curious Sword, Entreri accidentally infuses himself with part of the essence of a shade when he uses his jeweled dagger ( capable of magically draining life energy ) to kill the shade attacking him and Jarlaxle.

In Salvatore's short story " That Curious Sword " in the Realms of Shadow: Return of the Archwizards • Anthology, it is revealed that Charon's Claw is a Netherese artifact.

In 1927, Moravia met Corrado Alvaro and Massimo Bontempelli, and started his career as a journalist with the magazine 900, which published his first short stories, including " La Cortigiana Stanca " (" The Tired Courtesan " or in French as " Lassitude de Courtisane ", 1927 ), " Delitto al Circolo del Tennis " (" Crime at the Tennis Club ") ( 1928 ), " Il Ladro Curioso " (" The Curious Thief ") and " Apparizione " (" Apparition ") ( both 1929 ).

Curious Directive ’ s adaptation of Mervyn Peake ’ s story is nothing short of phenomenal ".

Richman also supplemented the academy-approved text books with reading assignments from Girl With Curious Hair, a short story by award-winning author David Foster Wallace.

" Though similar in theme, it is related neither to the Fitzgerald short story nor the film " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

* Phllby has a key role in Mike Ripley's short story " Gold Sword " published in ' John Creasey's Crime Collection 1990 ' which was chosen as BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Story to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day on 6th June 1994.

* In the Academy Award-winning short Knighty Knight Bugs, King Arthur sends court jester Bugs to recover the Singing Sword from the Black Knight, portrayed as Yosemite Sam in black armor.

Parsons also was the main villain of the Atomic Robo short story " Rocket Science is a Two-Edged Sword ," wherein Robo prevents Parsons from attaining godhood through a system of magick infused with science.

Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons, stated that he based the description of a lich included in the game on the short story " The Sword of the Sorcerer " by Gardner Fox.

" After a short delay, the game was officially announced to be a fifth entry in the series: Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse.

Starting with his first comic strip Bride of the Sword in 1935, in a relatively short time ( 1935 – 1940 ) he drew a great number of comics, including:

He uses an owl-shaped flying vehicle nicknamed the " Owlship " or " Archie " ( short for Archimedes, after Merlin's pet owl in Disney's film The Sword in the Stone ), equipped with a variety of offensive and defensive devices, such as flamethrowers and " screechers "— devices capable of producing a sharp screech-like sound.

* The Sword, 1968 fantasy short story by Lloyd Alexander. A king who yields to anger, with lethal results, in a moment of weakness.

A short comic published weekly in five parts on Nintendo's official The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword website, written and illustrated by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik under their Penny Arcade Presents series.

In 4th edition, the Sword of Kas is described in supplement Open Grave, is a short sword suitable for Epic level characters ( Level 20 or more ).

* Sword: Twofold twists form the cross piece, with one short and one long bubble forming the handle and blade.

The TC-1 Sky Sword I ( 天劍一, Tien Chien I ) is a short range infrared guided air-to-air missile developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan ROC, for the ROC Air Force.

Originally a short novel, " Sword and Scepter ".

This iteration of Set, the malevolent primeval seven-headed serpent god of chaos, has its origins in Robert E. Howard's first Conan short story The Phoenix on the Sword, ( first published in Weird Tales, December 1932 ); this story introduces Thoth-Amon, a follower of " the serpent god Set ".

The name was taken from the name of a supposed magical weapon in a short story by Lord Dunsany, " The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth ," published in 1908 in the collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories.

The paperback edition was released in May 2007 and also contained a small excerpt from Bloodlines by Karen Traviss, and reprints of two short stories, In His Image and A Two-Edged Sword by Karen Traviss.