Fredric Brown bibliography

Short stories

• The Moon for a Nickel.

• The Cheese on Stilts.
• Blood of the Dragon.
• There Are Bloodstains in the Alley.
• Murder at 10:15.

• Bloody Murder.
• The Prehistoric Clue.
• A Matter of Taste.
• Trouble in a Teacup.
• Murder Draws a Crowd.
• Footprints on the Ceiling.
• Town Wanted.
• The Little Green Men.
• Herbie Rides His Hunch.
• The Stranger from Trouble Valley.
• The Strange Sisters Strange.

• Fugitive Impostor.
• The King Comes Home.
• Big-Top Doom.
• The Discontented Cows.
• Life and Fire.
• Big-League Larceny.
• Client Unknown.
• Homicide Sanitarium.
• Your Name in Gold.
• Here Comes the Hearse.
• Six-Gun Song.
• Star-Spangled Night.
• Wheels Across the Night.
• Armageddon.
• Little Boy Lost.
• Bullet for Bullet.
• Listen to the Mocking Bird.
• You'll End Up Buming.
• Selling Death Short.
• Thirty Corpses Every Thursday.
• Trouble Comes Double.
• Not Yet the End.
• Number Bug.

• Clue in Blue.
• Death is a White Rabbit.
• Twenty Gets You Plenty.
• Etaoin Shrdlu.
• Little Apple Hard to Peel.
• Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter.
• Death in the Dark.
• Handbook for Homicide.
• The Incredible Bomber.
• Twice-Killed Corpse.
• Mad Dog!
• Moon Over Murder.
• The Star Mouse.
• A Cat Walks.
• Who Did I Murder.
• Murder in Furs.
• Suite for Flute and Tommy Gun.
• Three Corpse Parlay.
• A Date to Die.
• Red is the Hue of Hell.
• Two Biers for Two.
• You'll Die Before Dawn.
• Get Out of Town.
• A Little White Lye.
• Nothing Sinister.
• The Numberless Shadows.
• Satan's Search Warrant.
• Starvation.
• Where There's Smoke.
• Boner.
• Legacy of Murder.
• The New One.
• The Santa Claus Murders.
• Double Murder.
• A Fine Night for Murder.
• Heil, Werewolf.
• I'll See You At Midnight.
• The Monkey Angle.
• Satan One-and-a-Half.
• The Men Who Went Nowhere.

• A Lock of Satan's Hair.
• The Spherical Ghoul.
• The Wicked Flea.
• The Angelic Angleworm.
• Death is a Noise.
• The Hat Trick.
• Hound of Hell.
• The Sleuth from Mars.
• A Change for the Hearse.
• Encore for a Killer.
• Trial By Darkness.
• Cadavers Don't Make a Fifth Column.
• Death of a Vampire.
• Death's Dark Angel.
• The Freak Show Murders.
• Market for Murder.
• The Corpse and the Candle.
• Madman's Holiday.
• Blue Murder.
• The Geezenstacks..
• Tell 'em, Pagliaccio.
• Whispering Death.
• Daymare.
• Death Insurance Payment.
• The Motive Goes Round and Round.
• Paradox Lost.

• The Djinn Murder.
• Murder in Miniature.
• The Ghost of Riley.
• The Devil's Woodwinds.
• And the Gods Laughed.
• Nothing Sirius.
• The Yehudi Principle.
• Arena.
• The Jabberwocky Murders.
• The Ghost Breakers.
• The Gibbering Night.
• Murder While You Wait.
• The Bucket of Gems Case.
• To Slay a Man About a Dog.
• A Matter of Death.

• Pi in the Sky.
• The Night the World Ended.
• The Waveries.
• No Sanctuary.
• Compliments of a Fiend.
• Ten Tickets to Hades.
• Murder-on-the-Hudson.

• Dead Man's Indemnity.
• Placet is a Crazy Place.
• Song of the Dead.
• Obit for Obie.
• Whistler's Murder.

• A Voice Behind Him.
• Don't Look Behind You.
• Miss Darkness.

• This Way Out.
• All Good Bems.
• Mouse. First published in June 1949 in Thrilling Wonder Stories. A man called Bill Wheeler sees a flying saucer land in Central Park in New York, in which only a dead mouse is found. A series of assassinations of world leaders follow, and he begins to suspect that the alien has taken possession of his pet Siamese cat, Beautiful.
• Murder and Matilda.
• Come and Go Mad.
• Last Curtain.
• Crisis, 1999.
• Each Night He Died.
• "Letter to a Phoenix"
• The Cat from Siam.
• The Sinister Mr. Dexter.
• Deadly Weekend.
• The Bloody Moonlight.
• Gateway to Darkness.

• The Last Train.
• Death and Nine Lives.
• The Blind Lead.
• The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches.
• The Nose of Don Aristide.
• Vengeance Unlimited.
• From These Ashes.
• The Undying Ones.
• Walk in the Shadows.
• The Frownzly Florgels.
• Gateway to Glory.
• The Last Martian.
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• Mitkey Rides Again.
• Night of the Jabberwock
• Device of the Turtle.

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• Man of Distinction.
• The Switcheroo.
• The Weapon - published in the anthology The War Book.
• Cartoonist.
• Something Green.
• The Dome.
• A Word from Our Sponsor.
• The Gamblers.
• The Hatchetman.

• Me and Flapjack and the Martians.

• Witness in the Dark.
• The Pickled Punks.
• The Wench is Dead.
• The Little Lamb.
• Rustle of Wings.
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• Keep Out.
• Martians, Go Home.
• Naturally.
• Voodoo.
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• Daisies.
• Pattern.
• Politeness.
• Preposterous.
• Reconciliation.
• Search.
• Sentence.
• Solipsist.

• Blood.
• Millennium.
• Premiere of Murder.
• The Perfect Crime.
• The Letter.
• The First Time Machine.
• Too Far.
• Imagine.

• Line of Duty.

• Murder Set to Music.
• Expedition.
• Happy Ending.

• The Amy Waggoner Murder Case.
• Jaycee.
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• Who Was That Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night? .

• The Late Lamented.
• Nasty.
• Rope Trick.
• Night of the Psycho.

• Abominable.
• Bear Possibility.
• The Mind Thing.
• Recessional.
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• Granny's Birthday.
• The House.

• Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility.
• Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability.
• Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality.
• The Hobbyist.
• Nightmare in Blue.
• Nightmare in Gray.
• Nightmare in Red.
• Nightmare in Time.
• Nightmare in Yellow.
• Of Time and Eustace Weaver
• Bright Beard.
• Cat Burglar.
• Death on the Mountain.
• Fish Story.
• Horse Race.
• Nightmare in Green.
• Nightmare in White.
• The Ring of Hans Carvel.
• Second Chance.
• Three Little Owls.
• Before She Kills.

• Aelurophobe.
• Puppet Show.
• Fatal Facsimile.

• Double Standard.
• Instant Novellas.
• It Didn't Happen.
• Tale of the Flesh Monger.
• The Missing Actor.

• Why, Benny, Why.

• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

  General fiction

• The Office

  Mysteries

• The Fabulous Clipjoint, Edgar Award winner for best first novel. "Eighteen-year-old Ed Hunter joins forces with his uncle, carnival-pitchman Ambrose Hunter, to track the person who bludgeoned Ed's father to death in a dark Chicago alley. Later Ed and Am open their own detective agency and are involved regularly in murder."
• The Dead Ringer, second "Ed & Am Hunter" novel
• Murder Can Be Fun, as A Plot for Murder
• The Bloody Moonlight, third "Ed & Am Hunter" novel
• The Screaming Mimi
• Compliments of a Fiend, fourth "Ed & Am Hunter" novel
• Here Comes a Candle
• Night of the Jabberwock
• Death Has Many Doors, fifth "Ed & Am Hunter" novel
• The Far Cry
• The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches, novella
• We All Killed Grandma
• The Deep End
• Mostly Murder, collection
• Madball
• His Name Was Death
• The Wench Is Dead
• The Lenient Beast,
• One for the Road
• The Late Lamented, sixth "Ed & Am Hunter" novel
• Knock Three-One-Two
• The Murderers
• Five-Day Nightmare
• Mrs. Murphy's Underpants, seventh "Ed & Am Hunter" novel
• The Shaggy Dog and Other Murders, collection
• 4 Novels, omnibus of The Fabulous Clipjoint, Knock Three-One-Two, Night of the Jabberwock and The Screaming Mimi
• Carnival of Crime, collection
• Hunter and Hunted: The Ed and Am Hunter Novels, Part One,, published by Stewart Masters Publishing, omnibus of The Fabulous Clipjoint, The Dead Ringer, The Bloody Moonlight and Compliments of a Fiend.

• Homicide Sanitarium
• Before She Kills
• Madman's Holiday
• The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches
• The Freak Show Murders
• Thirty Corpses Every Thursday
• Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter
• Red is the Hue of Hell
• Sex Life on the Planet Mars
• Brother Monster
• Nightmare in Darkness
• Who was that Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night?
• Three-Corpse Parley
• Selling Death Short
• Whispering Death
• Happy Ending
• The Water-Walker
• The Gibbering Night
• The Pickled Punks

• The Proofreaders' Page and Other Uncollected Items,, published by Galactic Central Publications

  Science fiction

• What Mad Universe
• The Lights in the Sky Are Stars, also published as Project Jupiter
• Martians, Go Home, which was the basis for a 1990 movie of the same name, starring Randy Quaid and Margaret Colin
• Rogue in Space
• The Mind Thing

  Collections of short stories

• Space on My Hands,
• Angels and Spaceships also published as Star Shine
• Honeymoon in Hell
• Nightmares and Geezenstacks
• Daymares
• Paradox Lost, and Twelve Other Great Science Fiction Stories
• The Best of Fredric Brown

• From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown,
• Martians and Madness,