By FREDRIC BROWN
E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
New York
Copyright, © 1959 by Fredric Brown
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A shortened version of this book appearedin the June issue of High Adventure,© 1959, under the title ofNight of the Psycho.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-10773
[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any
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By Fredric Brown
THE DEAD RINGER
COMPLIMENTS OF A FIEND
HERE COMES A CANDLE
MURDER CAN BE FUN
THE BLOODY MOONLIGHT
THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT
THE SCREAMING MIMI
NIGHT OF THE JABBERWOCK
DEATH HAS MANY DOORS
THE FAR CRY
WE ALL KILLED GRANDMA
THE DEEP END
MOSTLY MURDER
HIS NAME WAS DEATH
WHAT MAD UNIVERSE
THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS
ANGELS AND SPACESHIPS
THE WENCH IS DEAD
MARTIANS, GO HOME
THE LENIENT BEAST
ROGUE IN SPACE
THE OFFICE
ONE FOR THE ROAD
THE LATE LAMENTED
KNOCK THREE-ONE-TWO
He had a name, but it doesn't matter; call him the psycho.
That's what the newspapers and everyone who read them called him now,since his second murder two months ago. At first he'd been called byvarious designations: insane rapist-killer, homicidal maniac, sexualpsychopath, and others. For convenience, for shorthand, it had boileddown to the psycho. The police called him that too, although they hadbeen m