SOURCE: "The Devil Wore Spats," in Saturday Review of the Arts, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 6, 1973, pp. 80, 84.

Abrahams is an American author and editor. Below, he considers the pieces included in The John Collier Reader to be engaging and enjoyable reading.

It is twenty-one years—twenty years too many—since we have had a book from John Collier, and that, Fancies and Goodnights, a collection of fifty of his stories, was in considerable part drawn from two earlier collections. This is one writer, evidently, who is determined that his admirers won't suffer from a surfeit of his work. But twenty-one years are twenty-one years, and famished Collierites, not to speak of a new generation of readers who ought to be Collierites, will settle down happily with this new volume—and no matter that very little of its contents are, strictly speaking, "new." It brings together in a handsome format his...