Title: Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer

Title: Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer Title Record # 76038
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Date: 1937-09-18
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Webpages: unz.org, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note:

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy gives title "Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer", with ampersand and hyphen, which matches the three 1938/1939 chapbooks.
Originally published in US weekly The Saturday Evening Post, September 18, 1937.
Published in monthly The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 1987 and Oct 1987. (as "Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer" --UNZ.org, thumbnail image) (two parts with word-counts 4713 and 3664 --TheFreeLibrary.com and Trove.NLA.gov.au respectively; sum 8377 words)
Collected in: Post Stories of 1937 (Little, Brown; 1938) O. Henry Memorial Award, Prize Stories of 1938 (Doubleday, Doran; 1938)

Synopsis: "In SVB's second famous fantasy tale, Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer [...], Pye outwits Death the Fool-Killer by refusing to accept an offer of Immortality." (underscore represents cross-reference, linked online) --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biographical entry by John Clute

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1938	Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer	1938-06-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Countryman Press		$3.50^?$: US dollar	78	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap
Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer	1938-08-08	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Farrar & Rinehart		$1.00^?$: US dollar	78	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap
Tales Before Midnight	1939-00-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Farrar & Rinehart		$2.50^?$: US dollar	274	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer	1939-03-07	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	William Heinemann		5/-^?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).	78	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét	1942-00-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Farrar & Rinehart		$5.00^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 487+ 483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét: Volume Two, Prose	1942-06-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Farrar & Rinehart			483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Short Stories of Stephen Vincent Benét - A Selection	1943-00-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Editions for the Armed Services	C-77	$0.00^?$: US dollar	319	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
Twenty-Five Short Stories	1943-00-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Sun Dial Press		$1.49^?$: US dollar	xiii+ 305+ 274	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Stephen Vincent Benét Pocket Book	1946-12-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Pocket Books	360	$0.25^?$: US dollar	x+ 414	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.	coll
Fantastic, May-June 1953	1953-05-00	ed. Howard Browne	Ziff-Davis Publishing Company		$0.35^?$: US dollar	164	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	W. T. Mars
A Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories	1961-00-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	Washington Square Press	W 224	$0.45^?$: US dollar	viii+ 293	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
The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Stories	1967-00-00	Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet	Archway / Washington Square Press	29013	$0.50^?$: US dollar	120	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.	coll

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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction