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Matheson, Richard
SHOCK WAVES
book-date: 1970
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1970
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A Visit to Santa Claus - (original title: "I'll Make It Look Good")
Finger Prints
Deus Ex Machina
The Thing
The Conqueror
A Drink of Water
Dying Room Only
Advance Notice - (original title: "Letter to the Editor")
Wet Straw
Therese - (original title: "Needle in the Heart")
Day of Reckoning - (original title: "The Faces" / a.k.a. "Graveyard Shift")
Prey
Come Fygures, Come Shadows
The Finishing Touches

The last 2 stories are original to this book (1970); the rest appeared from 1951 to 1969 - in Alfred Hitchcock's, Gamma, Marvel Science Stories, Blue Book, Signature, Fifteen Detective Stories, Imagination, Weird Tales, Ellery Queen's, Ed McBain's, Playboy and The Fiend in You. A 1980 British pb reprint of this appeared as Shock 4 (title changed to fit in with other Matheson collections with "Shock" in the title.)