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FIRST PUBLICATION

•    Fantasy Fiction, Jun 1953

HISTORY

    This little tale of a psychic vampire who trades cookies for children’s life force is effective, even memorable when one thinks about it. I think it would’ve made a good script for Rod Serling’s Night Gallery or The Twilight Zone.

    Published first in Fantasy Fiction in June 1953, "The Cookie Lady" was selected for PKD’s first collection, A HANDFUL OF DARKNESS in 1955. It has been intermittently anthologized since then, notably in ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: THE MASTER’S CHOICE published by Doubleday in 1979. It is the first story in the second volume of THE COLLECTED STORIES.

    "The Cookie Lady" gets ô ô ô ô

Other Magazine and Anthology Appearances.    More Cover Pix Here:

1955		A HANDFUL OF DARKNESS, Rich & Cowan, hb, ?,?,? (?)
1961		MORE MACABRE, Ace, pb, D508, 1961, 192pp, $0.35, (?) {Ed. Wollheim}
1979		ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: THE MASTER'S CHOICE, Book One, Random House, hb, ?,?,? (?) {Ed. Hitchcock} Book Club Edition
1981		ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: THE MASTER'S CHOICE, Book One, Coronet, pb, ?,?,? (?) {Ed. Hitchcock}
1987		THE COLLECTED STORIES OF PKD
1988		HUNGER FOR HORROR, DAW, pb, ?, Mar 1988. 256pp, $3.50 (?) {Ed. Adams, Adams} 0-886-77266-4
1997		VAMPIRES: The Greatest Stories, MJF, hb, ?, Oct 1997, 308pp, $8.98 (J.K.Potter) {Ed. Greenberg} 1-56731-167-9

 NOTES

Collector’s Notes

Ebay (Nov 2000): "The Cookie lady" in Fantasy Fiction, 1953. 0 bids. $6

Alibris: "The Cookie Lady" in THE MASTER’S CHOICE, ed. Alfred Hitchcock, Random House, hb, BCE, 1979. VG/VG. Light jacket edge-wear includes short closed tears. Covers bright. Binding strong. Text clean and complete. $3.95

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