Short Fiction Collected
Ron Goulart
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Title Page
About Ronald Goulart
Pseudonyms
Bibliography: Novels
Bibliography: Novelizations
Bibliography: Magazine-published Novels
Bibliography: Chapbooks
Bibliography: Collections
Bibliography: Omnibus
Bibliography: Nonfiction
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
1950
Letters to the Editor
Conroy’s Public
1958
A New Lo!
. . . and Curiouser
The Katy Dialogues
Shandy
Dream Girl
1959
Parlor Game
Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir
Required Course
Bottle it Up
Clothes Make the Man
1960
Ignatz
Ella Speed
Subject to Change
1961
Time Was
1962
Please Stand By
Princess #22
Uncle Arly
Junior Partner
Nor Iron Bars a Cage
1963
Anything for Laughs
Plumrose
McNamara’s Fish
The Recurrent Suitor
The Yes Men of Venus
Vanity, Thy Name Is
Lost Tiger
1964
Nobody Starves
Who Ate the Liontamer?
Into the Shop
Society for the Prevention
Chameleon
1965
Badinage
The Hand of Dr. Insidious
Reporter at Large
Winterness
By Way of Mars
Calling Dr. Clockwork
Terminal
Rake
Kearny’s Last Case
Nesbit
The Peppermint-Striped Goodbye
1966
To the Rescue
Breakaway House
Experiment in Autobiography
The Tin Ear
1967
Two Days Running and Then Skip a Day
Fill in the Blank
Undertaker, Please Drive Slow
The Housebreakers
Rink
The Sword Swallower
1968
Muscadine
The Trouble with Machines
The Ghost Patrol
Gadget Man
1969
A Man’s Home is His Castle
Copstate
Broke and Hungry, No Place to Go
Penny Dreadful
1970
The Whole Round World
Keeping an Eye on Janey
The Strawhouse Pavillion
Disposal
Prez
Swap
Hobo Jungle
What’s Become of Screwloose?
Confessions
Granny
The Haunted Man
Sunflower
1971
Help Stamp Out Chesney
The Romance of Dr. Tanner
Hardcastle
Monte Cristo Complex
The Way Things Work
The Trouble Was
Orczy Must Go!
Passage to Murdstone
1972
The Cybernetic Tabernacle Job
Masterpiece
Change Over
Looking into It
News from Nowhere
Gigolo
The Innocence of Father Bangs
Not That Shaggy . . .
Canned Heat
1973
Whistler
Down There
The Gold Medal Caper
Free at Last
Varieties of Religious Experience
Down and Out
Kilbride
The Laughing Chef
That’ll Never Happen No More
Dingbat
Regarding Patient 724
The Hellhound Project
1974
Stungun Slim
1975
Odd Job #101
Falling Apart
Quest of the Gypsy
Nutzenbolts
Stockyard Blues
1976
At the Starvation Ball
1977
Please Don’t Help the Bear
Lunatic at Large
Shinbet Investigates
Amnesty
Now He Thinks He’s Dead
Assassins
1978
Lectric Jack
And the Winner Is—
How Come My Dog Don’t Bark?
Out of the Inkwell
Invisible Stripes
Pulling the Plug
Why the Funnies Museum Never Opened
1979
Garbage
Ninety-Nine Clop Clop
Dr. Scofflaw
1980
Steele Wyoming
1981
Batteries Not Included
Groucho
Presenting Trilby Swain
The Decline and Fall of Norbert Tuffy
Papa Gumbo
Mercy
Ask Penny Jupiter
The Foxworth Legatees
Wooing Chips Tortuga
Christmastime in Prison
The Return of Max Kearny
1982
Crusoe in New York
Blockbuster
1983
Brain Food
Moppet
Six Tablespoons Molasses
A Million Laughs
It Was Bad Enough
Hello from Hollywood
1984
Adam and Eve on a Raft
Street Magic
Me and the Devil
Alas, My Love
The President’s Brain is Missing
1985
It’s So Cold in China
The Zanzibar Diet
Barbecue Bob
The Secret of the Black Chateau
Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe
Keep it Clean
That Wonderful Summer
1986
Hollywood Detective
The Monster of the Maze
Have You Hugged Your Undertaker Today?
Skyrocket Steele’s Trip to Mars
Ex-Chameleon
Eavesdropping
Glory
1987
Business as Usual
1988
Satin
House of Secrets
The Night I Saw Bix Beiderbecke Playing on the Corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd
Visitation
Here Comes Bunky
1989
The Werewolf of Hollywood
The Consequences of Buying Maria Montez for Dad
1990
Dick Tracy Goes Hollywood
1992
Hershey’s Kisses
1993
Fear of Success
Mom’s Cooking
A Visit from St. Nicholas
New Hope for Denture Wearers
1994
The Raven Takes Over
Believing in Santa
How to Win at Russian Roulette
1996
A Cure for Baldness
74 Games of Solitaire
Murder for Dummies
1997
Downsized
Why I Never Went Steady with Heather Moon
A Game of Hangman
1998
Satan’s Home Page
My Pal Clunky
The Curse of the Demon
1999
You May Already Be a Winner
How Heather Moon Kept My Life from Getting Completely Fouled Up Again
Tinker’s Last Case
I Married a Robot
2000
Black Magic for Dummies
Catnip
Curse of the Cat People
My Career as a Cat Burglar
2001
My Favorite Robot
Concerning My Third Encounter with Heather Moon
The Phantom Highwayman
2002
The Wake of the Crimson Hawk
Odd Job #213
The Robot Who Came to Dinner
The Woman in the Mist
2003
Something Borrowed
The Incredible Steam Man
The Robot Who Knew Too Much
2005
The Secret of the Scarab
How to Avoid Bigamy
Cannibal Farm
2006
Brief Nudity
2007
The Devil Bats Will Be a Little Late This Year
Dickie Danger, Boy Detective
Garbo Quits
2008
Conversations with My Knees
Memoirs of the Witch Queen
The Return of the Iron Skull
The Mystery of the Missing Automaton
2009
The Mystery of the Flying Man
The Case of the Extra Ventriloquist
I Waltzed with a Zombie
2010
I Was a Middle-Age Werewolf
2012
The Secret of the City of Gold
Fun for the Whole Family
The Somerset Wonder
The Problem of the Elusive Cracksman
2013
Lost Cat
2014
Hark, the Wicked Witches Sing
2015
The Adventure of the Clockwork Men
2017
The Amazing Transformation of the White House Dog
2019
The Strange Disappearance of the Talking Horse