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The Quick and the Dead is a collection of stories by author Vincent Starrett

Vincent Starrett

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett , known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman.- Biography :...

. It was released in 1965

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and was the author's only collection of stories published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. It was released in an edition of 2,047 copies. The stories were originally published between 1920

1920 in literature

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and 1932

1932 in literature

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in various pulp magazines.

The Quick and the Dead contains the following tales:

"The Fugitive"
"The Man in the Cask"
"The Quick and the Dead"
"The Sinless Village"
"The Head of Cromwell"
"Penelope"
"The Elixir of Death"
"Coffins for Two"
"The Tattooed Man"
"Footsteps of Fear"

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