Vincent Starrett
(1886–1974)

American writer

Works edit

  • Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin (1918)
  • The Escape of Alice: A Christmas Fantasy (1919)
  • Ambrose Bierce (1920)
  • The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (1920)
  • Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (1923) (external scan)
  • Persons from Porlock (1923)
  • Stephen Crane: A Bibliography (1923)
  • Coffins for Two (1924)
  • Seaports in the Moon: A Fantasia on Romantic Themes (1928)
  • Ambrose Bierce: A Bibliography (1929)
  • Murder on "B" Deck (1929)
  • Penny Wise and Book Foolish (1929)
  • The Blue Door (1930)
  • Dead Man Inside (1931)
  • The End of Mr. Garment (1932)
  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1933)
  • Midnight and Percy Jones (1936)
  • Oriental Encounters: Two Essays in Bad Taste (1938)
  • Persons from Porlock and Other Interruptions (1938)
  • The Great Hotel Murder (1939)
  • Books Alive (1940)
  • Bookman's Holiday (1942)
  • The Case Book of Jimmie Lavender (1944)
  • Murder in Peking (1946)
  • Books and Bipeds (1947)
  • Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century (1955)
  • The Great All-Star Animal League Ball Game (1957)
  • Book Column (1958)
  • Born in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence (1965)
  • The Quick and the Dead (collection) (1965)
  • Late, Later and Possibly Last (1973)

Short stories edit

Poetry edit

  • Estrays (1920), with Thomas Kennedy, Basil Thompson, and George Steele Seymour
  • Rhymes for Collectors (1921)
  • "Changeling" (1922)
  • Ebony Flame (1922)
  • Banners in the Dawn (1923)
  • Flame and Dust (1924)
  • Fifteen More Poems (1927)
  • "Legend" (1927)
  • "Cordelia's Song" in Weird Tales, 31 (4) (April 1938)
  • "Othello Time" in Weird Tales, 33 (1) (January 1939)
  • "In an Old Street" in Weird Tales, 33 (4) (April 1939)
  • "Dupin and Another" in Weird Tales, 34 (2) (August 1939)
  • Autolycus in Limbo (1943)
  • "221B" (1945)
  • "Extraordinary Visit" (1947)
  • "Gooseflesh" (1947)
  • "Sea Story" (1947)
  • "Visitation" (1947)
  • "Alice, Where Art Thou?" (1949)
  • Brillig (1949)
  • "Fragment" (1949)
  • "Full Circle" (1949)
  • "Hieroglyphics" (1949)
  • "HPL" (1949)
  • "Travel Talk" (1949)
  • "Two Horsemen" (1949)
  • "Femme Fatale" (1961)
  • "Romantic Episode" (1961)
  • "The Death of Santa Claus" (1961)

As editor edit

 

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1974, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 49 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

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