The bibliography of American writer Fredric Brown includes short stories, general fiction, mysteries and science fiction stories.
Short stories 1930s 1938 The Moon for a Nickel (Detective Story Magazine, March)
1939 The Cheese on Stilts (Thrilling Detective, January) Blood of the Dragon (Variety Detective, February) There Are Bloodstains in the Alley (Detective Yarns, February) Let Colonel Cluck Answer Your Questions (Independent Salesman, May) Murder at 10:15 (Clues, May) 1940s 1940 Bloody Murder The Prehistoric Clue A Matter of Taste Trouble in a Teacup (also published as "Teacup Trouble") Murder Draws a Crowd Footprints on the Ceiling Town Wanted The Little Green Men Herbie Rides His Hunch The Stranger from Trouble Valley The Strange Sisters Strange
1941 Fugitive Impostor The King Comes Home Big-Top Doom The Discontented Cows Life and Fire Big-League Larceny Client Unknown Homicide Sanitarium Your Name in Gold Here Comes the Hearse Six-Gun Song Star-Spangled Night Wheels Across the Night Armageddon Little Boy Lost Bullet for Bullet Listen to the Mocking Bird You'll End Up Buming Selling Death Short Thirty Corpses Every Thursday Trouble Comes Double Not Yet the End Number Bug
1942 Clue in Blue Death is a White Rabbit Twenty Gets You Plenty Etaoin Shrdlu Little Apple Hard to Peel Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter Death in the Dark (a/p/a "The Black Dark") Handbook for Homicide The Incredible Bomber Twice-Killed Corpse Mad Dog! Moon Over Murder The Star Mouse A Cat Walks Who Did I Murder Murder in Furs Suite for Flute and Tommy Gun Three Corpse Parlay A Date to Die Red is the Hue of Hell Two Biers for Two You'll Die Before Dawn Get Out of Town A Little White Lye Nothing Sinister The Numberless Shadows Satan's Search Warrant Starvation (a/p/a "Runaround") Where There's Smoke Boner Legacy of Murder The New One The Santa Claus Murders (expanded into novel Murder Can be Fun a/p/a A Plot for Murder) Double Murder A Fine Night for Murder Heil, Werewolf I'll See You At Midnight The Monkey Angle Satan One-and-a-Half The Men Who Went Nowhere
1943 A Lock of Satan's Hair The Spherical Ghoul The Wicked Flea The Angelic Angleworm Death is a Noise The Hat Trick Hound of Hell (a/p/a "Beware of the Dog") The Sleuth from Mars A Change for the Hearse Encore for a Killer Trial By Darkness Cadavers Don't Make a Fifth Column Death of a Vampire Death's Dark Angel The Freak Show Murders Market for Murder The Corpse and the Candle Madman's Holiday Blue Murder The Geezenstacks Tell 'em, Pagliaccio Whispering Death Daymare Death Insurance Payment The Motive Goes Round and Round Paradox Lost
1944 The Djinn Murder Murder in Miniature The Ghost of Riley The Devil's Woodwinds And the Gods Laughed Nothing Sirius The Yehudi Principle Arena The Jabberwocky Murders (incorporated into novel Night of the Jabberwock) The Ghost Breakers The Gibbering Night (incorporated into novel Night of the Jabberwock) Murder While You Wait The Bucket of Gems Case (a/p/a "Mr Smith Kicks the Bucket") To Slay a Man About a Dog (a/p/a "Shaggy Dog Murders") A Matter of Death
1945 Pi in the Sky The Night the World Ended The Waveries No Sanctuary Compliments of a Fiend (expanded into novel The Bloody Moonlight) Ten Tickets to Hades (a/p/a "Murder in Ten Easy Lessons") Murder-on-the-Hudson
1946 Dead Man's Indemnity (expanded into novel The Fabulous Clipjoint) Placet is a Crazy Place Song of the Dead Obit for Obie (expanded into novel The Deep End) Whistler's Murder
1947 A Voice Behind Him Don't Look Behind You Miss Darkness
1948 I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen The Dead Ringer (expanded into novel The Dead Ringer) Four Letter Word (a/p/a "The Greatest Poem Ever Written") The Four Blind Men What Mad Universe (expanded into novel What Mad Universe) The Laughing Butcher If Looks Could Kill (a/p/a "The Joke") Cry Silence Red-Hot and Hunted Knock
1949 This Way Out All Good Bems Mouse First published in June 1949 in Thrilling Wonder Stories A man called Bill Wheeler sees a flying saucer land in Central Park in New York, in which only a dead mouse is found. A series of assassinations of world leaders follow, and he begins to suspect that the alien has taken possession of his pet Siamese cat, Beautiful. Murder and Matilda Come and Go Mad Last Curtain (a/p/a "Cream of the Jest") Crisis, 1999 Each Night He Died (a/p/a "Cain") "Letter to a Phoenix" The Cat from Siam The Sinister Mr. Dexter (a/p/a "House of Fear") Deadly Weekend (expanded into novel The Screaming Mimi) The Bloody Moonlight (condensed from novel The Bloody Moonlight) Gateway to Darkness (a/p/a "Small World," incorporated into novel Rogue in Space) 1950s
1950 The Last Train Death and Nine Lives The Blind Lead The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches The Nose of Don Aristide Vengeance Unlimited (a/p/a "Vengeance Fleet") From These Ashes (a/p/a "Entity Trap") The Undying Ones (a/p/a "Obedience") Walk in the Shadows The Frownzly Florgels Gateway to Glory (incorporated into novel Rogue in Space) The Last Martian Honeymoon in Hell Mitkey Rides Again Night of the Jabberwock Device of the Turtle (a/p/a "Six-Legged Swengali"; with Mack Reynolds)
1951 Dark Interlude (with Mack Reynolds) Man of Distinction The Switcheroo The Weapon - published in the anthology The War Book (edited by James Sallis, 1969) Cartoonist (a/p/a "Garrigan's Bems"; with Mack Reynolds) Something Green The Dome A Word from Our Sponsor The Gamblers (with Mack Reynolds) The Hatchetman (with Mack Reynolds)
1952 Me and Flapjack and the Martians (with Mack Reynolds)
1953 Witness in the Dark The Pickled Punks (expanded into novel Madball) The Wench is Dead (expanded into novel The Wench is Dead) The Little Lamb Rustle of Wings Hall of Mirrors
1954 Two Timer (Galaxy Science Fiction, February) Experiment Sentry Keep Out Martians, Go Home (expanded into novel Martians, Go Home) Naturally Voodoo Answer Daisies Pattern Politeness Preposterous Reconciliation Search Sentence Solipsist
1955 Blood Millennium Premiere of Murder The Perfect Crime (a/p/a "Fatal Error") The Letter (a/p/a "Dead Letter") The First Time Machine Too Far Imagine
1956 Line of Duty (expanded into novel The Lenient Beast)
1957 Murder Set to Music Expedition Happy Ending (with Mack Reynolds)
1958 The Amy Waggoner Murder Case (expanded into novel One for the Road) Jaycee Unfortunately Who Was That Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night? (expanded into novel His Name was Death)
1959 The Late Lamented (expanded into novel The Late Lamented) Nasty Rope Trick Night of the Psycho (expanded into novel Knock Three-One-Two)
1960s 1960 Abominable Bear Possibility The Mind Thing (never completed serialization later published as novel The Mind Thing) Recessional The Power (a/p/a "Rebound") Earthmen Bearing Gifts Granny's Birthday The House
1961 Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality The Hobbyist Nightmare in Blue Nightmare in Gray Nightmare in Red Nightmare in Time (a/p/a "The End") Nightmare in Yellow Of Time and Eustace Weaver ("The Short Happy Lives of E. Weaver I-II-III") Bright Beard Cat Burglar Death on the Mountain Fish Story Horse Race Nightmare in Green Nightmare in White The Ring of Hans Carvel Second Chance Three Little Owls Before She Kills
1962 Aelurophobe Puppet Show Fatal Facsimile
1963 Double Standard Instant Novellas (a/p/a "20 Stories in 60 Lines") It Didn't Happen Tale of the Flesh Monger (a/p/a "Ten Percenter") The Missing Actor
1964 Why, Benny, Why
1965 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (with Carl Onspaugh)
General fiction
The Office (1958) (reprinted by Dennis McMillan in 1987)
Mysteries
The Fabulous Clipjoint (E. P. Dutton 1947, Bantam 302, 1948), Edgar Award winner for best first novel. "Eighteen-year-old Ed Hunter joins forces with his uncle, carnival-pitchman Ambrose Hunter, to track the person who bludgeoned Ed's father (Am's brother) to death in a dark Chicago alley. Later Ed and Am open their own detective agency and are involved regularly in murder."Roseman, Mill et al. Detectionary. New York: Overlook Press, 1971. The Dead Ringer (E. P. Dutton 1948, Bantam 361, 1949), second "Ed & Am Hunter" novel Murder Can Be Fun (E. P. Dutton 1948), as A Plot for Murder (Bantam 735, 1949) The Bloody Moonlight (E. P. Dutton 1949, Bantam 783, 1950), third "Ed & Am Hunter" novel The Screaming Mimi (E. P. Dutton 1949, Bantam 831, 1950) Compliments of a Fiend (E. P. Dutton 1950, Bantam 876 1951), fourth "Ed & Am Hunter" novel Here Comes a Candle (E. P. Dutton 1950, Bantam 943 1951) Night of the Jabberwock (E. P. Dutton 1950, Bantam 990 1951, Quill / William Morrow 1984) Death Has Many Doors (E. P. Dutton 1951, Bantam 1040 1952), fifth "Ed & Am Hunter" novel The Far Cry (E. P. Dutton 1951, Bantam 1133 1952) The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches (1951), novella We All Killed Grandma (E. P. Dutton 1952, Bantam 1176) The Deep End (E. P. Dutton 1952, Bantam 1215) Mostly Murder (E. P. Dutton 1953, Pennant P59 1954), collection Madball (Dell 1953, Fawcett S1132 1981) His Name Was Death (E. P. Dutton 1954, Bantam 1436 1956) The Wench Is Dead (E. P. Dutton 1955, Bantam 1565 1957) The Lenient Beast (E. P. Dutton 1956, Bantam 1712 1958), One for the Road (E. P. Dutton 1958, Bantam 1990 1959) The Late Lamented (E. P. Dutton 1959, Bantam 2030 1960), sixth "Ed & Am Hunter" novel Knock Three-One-Two (E. P. Dutton 1959, Bantam A2135 1960) The Murderers (E. P. Dutton 1961, Bantam J2587 1963) Five-Day Nightmare (E. P. Dutton 1962, Tower 42-502 1962) Mrs. Murphy's Underpants (E. P. Dutton 1963), seventh "Ed & Am Hunter" novel The Shaggy Dog and Other Murders (E. P. Dutton 1963), collection 4 Novels (1983), omnibus of The Fabulous Clipjoint, Knock Three-One-Two, Night of the Jabberwock and The Screaming Mimi Carnival of Crime (1985), collection Hunter and Hunted: The Ed and Am Hunter Novels, Part One (2002), , published by Stewart Masters Publishing, omnibus of The Fabulous Clipjoint, The Dead Ringer, The Bloody Moonlight and Compliments of a Fiend.
In 1984, Dennis McMillan Publications began a series of nineteen limited edition books under the title Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps, collecting most of Brown's uncollected mystery short stories, plus some uncollected science fiction, poetry, unfinished novels, and miscellaneous fiction:
Homicide Sanitarium (1984) Before She Kills (1984) Madman's Holiday (1984) The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches (1985) The Freak Show Murders (1985) Thirty Corpses Every Thursday (1986) Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter (1986) Red is the Hue of Hell (1986) Sex Life on the Planet Mars (1986) Brother Monster (1987) Nightmare in Darkness (1987) Who was that Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night? (1988) Three-Corpse Parley (1988) Selling Death Short (1988) Whispering Death (1989) Happy Ending (1990) The Water-Walker (1990) The Gibbering Night (1991) The Pickled Punks (1991)
In the final volume, McMillan discussed Fredric Brown material that was still uncollected, with particular reference to a column that Brown wrote from 1937 to 1946 called The Proofreaders' Page, mentioning that these would "take a book in themselves". Twenty years later that book was published, including both the columns and a selection of other uncollected fiction, poetry and non-fiction as:
The Proofreaders' Page and Other Uncollected Items (2011), , published by Galactic Central Publications
Science fiction
His first science fiction story, "Not Yet the End", was published in Captain Future in 1941. What Mad Universe (E. P. Dutton 1949, Bantam 835 1950)