Born on this day – Gerald Kersh:

Gerald Kersh

Writer

August 26, 1912 – November 5, 1968

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Long Cool Day in Hell (1965); Alien Stories 2 (2002); An Ape, a Dog, and a Serpent (1945); Angel and Cuckoo (1967); Best SF 2 (1956); Brain and Ten Fingers (1943); Classics of the Supernatural (1998); Clean, Bright, and Slightly Oiled (1946); Clock without Hands (1949); Doubles, Dummies and Dolls (1995); Eleven Great Horror Stories (1969); Faces in a Dusty Picture (1944); Fowler's End (1957); Guttersnipe (1954); I Got References (1939); Mark Twain's Medieval Romance (2012); Men Are So Ardent (1936); Men without Bones (1955); More Than Once Upon a Time (1964); Neither Man nor Dog (1946); Night and the City (1938); Nightshade and Damnations (1968); On an Odd Note (1958); One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968); Prelude to a Certain Midnight (1947); Sad Road to the Sea (1947); Selected Stories (1943); Sergeant Nelson Of The Guards (1945); Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979); Stories of the Supernatural (1967); Tales of the Supernatural (1962); The 5th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1964); The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972); The 8th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1967); The Battle Of The Singing Men (1944); The Best of Gerald Kersh (1960); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Brazen Bull (1952); The Brighton Monster (1953); The Dead Look On (1943); The Great Wash / aka The Secret Masters (1953); The Horrible Dummy (1944); The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver (1965); The Implacable Hunter (1961); The Light Fantastic (1971); The Nine Lives of Bill Nelson (1942); The Other Side of the Moon (1949); The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984); The Song of the Flea (1948); The Terribly Wild Flowers (1962); The Thousand Deaths Of Mr Small (1951); The Ugly Face of Love (1960); The Unexplained (1998); The Weak and the Strong (1945); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares (2000); The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories (2001); They Die with Their Boots Clean (1941).

Movies and television:

Danger (1951); Lights Out (1949–1950); Night and the City (1950 / 1992); Nine Men (1943); Orient Express (1952); The True Glory (1945); The Web (1951).