From These Ashes contains the complete short fantasy and science fiction of Fredric Brown except for two stories, "Gateway to Darkness," and "Gateway to Glory" which were rewritten to be parts of Rogue in Space. They are published, along with Rogue in Space, in the second Fredric Brown volume (novels) Martians and Madness.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg

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Abominable

Aelurophobe

All Good BEMs

And the Gods Laughed

The Angelic Angleworm

Answer

Arena

Armageddon

Bear Possibility

Blood

Bright Beard

Cartoonist

Cat Burglar

Come and Go Mad

Contact

Crisis, 1999

Daisies

Dark Interlude

Daymare

Dead Letter

Death on the Mountain

The Dome

Double Standard

Double Whammy aka "Naturally" and "Voodoo"

Earthmen Bearing Gifts aka "Contact"

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

The End

Entity Trap

Etaoin Shrdlu

Expedition

Experiment

Fatal Error

First Time Machine

Fish Story

From These Ashes aka "Entity Trap"

The Frownzly Florgels

The Gamblers

The Geezenstacks

Granny's Birthday

Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility

Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability

Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality

Hall of Mirrors

Happy Ending

The Hat Trick

The Hatchetman

Hobbyist

Honeymoon in Hell

Horse Race

The House

Imagine

It Didn't Happen

Jaycee

The Joke

Keep Out

Knock

The Last Martian

The Last Train

Letter to a Phoenix

The Little Lamb

Man of Distinction

Me and Flapjack and the Martians

Millennium

Mitkey Rides Again

Mouse

Murder in Ten Easy Lessons

Nasty

Naturally

The New One

Nightmare in Blue

Nightmare in Gray

Nightmare in Green

Nightmare in Red

Nightmare in Time aka "The End"

Nightmare in White

Nightmare in Yellow

Not Yet the End

Nothing Sirius

Obedience

Paradox Lost

Pattern

Pi in the Sky

Placet Is a Crazy Place

Politeness

Power, The aka "Rebound"

Preposterous

Puppet Show

Rebound

Recessional

Reconciliation

The Ring of Hans Carvel

Rope Trick

Runaround

Rustle of Wings

Search

Second Chance

Sentence

Sentry

The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I

The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II

The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III

Six-Legged Svengali

Solipsist

Something Green

Star Mouse, The

Starvation aka "Runaround"

Switcheroo, The

Ten Percenter

Three Little Owls

Too Far

Two Timer aka "Experiment" and "Sentry"

Unfortunately

Vengeance Fleet

Voodoo

Waveries, The

Weapon, The

Yehudi Principle, The