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Title: Gomez Title Record # 2379546
Author: Gerald Kersh
Date: 1943-03-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: According to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Vol 40 No 3, September 1962, this was also published under the title 'The Man Death Forgot' in 1946, publication unknown; the story appeared in that issue of EQMM as 'The Unkillable Man'.
Synopsis: Borderline speculative fiction (a precursor to 'Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?', 1956). A man mysteriously survives many shootings, stabbings and accidents that would normally have killed him.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1962 The Unkillable Man
Year Language Title
1963Translated by Marc Flury
French L'homme qu'on ne pouvait tuer
1969Translated by Elisabeth Simon
German Der Mann, der vom Tod vergessen wurde

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Selected Stories 1943-03-00 Gerald Kersh Staples and Staples (Modern Reading Library #2)  
2/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
 
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
coll  
Neither Man Nor Dog 1946-03-00 Gerald Kersh William Heinemann  
8/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
202
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Neither Man Nor Dog 1946-03-00 Gerald Kersh The Ryerson Press      
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
coll  
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1962 1962-09-00 ed. Editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine    
$0.35?$: US dollar
 
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag  
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (UK), January 1963 1963-01-00 ed. Editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (UK)    
2/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
 
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag  
Mystère #181, February 1963 1963-02-00 ed.
Editors of Mystère?Editors of Mystere
       
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin 18 1969-00-00 ed. Hans Gamber Heyne (Heyne Krimi #1343) 1343   159
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth  
Neither Man Nor Dog 2015-00-00 Gerald Kersh Valancourt Books 978-1-941147-72-6   206
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Lorenzo Princi Checkmark
Neither Man Nor Dog 2015-04-14 Gerald Kersh Valancourt Books (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)  
$4.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Lorenzo Princi Checkmark
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