SOURCE: "Presented by John Collier," in New York Herald Tribune Book Review, November 25, 1951, p. 3.

H. H. Holmes was a pseudonym of William A. P. White. White was an American critic, science fiction writer, and co-founder of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Below, he offers a positive assessment of the stories in the collection Fancies and Goodnights, citing their skilled narrative technique, imaginative force, and excellent prose style.

Any reader who has ever read so much as a single story by John Collier needs to be told nothing beyond the facts that this volume contains over 170,000 words by The Master: all of the twenty-four stories in Presenting Moonshine, nine from other sources and seventeen stories never before published in book form.

The indoctrinated have already stopped reading this review and departed for their bookstores, each to buy two copies for himself (one will wear out so soon...