Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk is a collection of supernatural

Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction is a literary genre exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it....

 detective

Detective fiction

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 short stories

Short Stories

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 by author M. P. Shiel

M. P. Shiel

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. It was released in 1977

1977 in literature

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 by Mycroft & Moran

Mycroft & Moran

Mycroft & Moran was an imprint of Arkham House publishers and was created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945. The imprint was created to publish weird detective stories and the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth...

 in an edition of 4,036 copies. The first three Prince Zaleski stories had appeared in Shiel's first published work, Prince Zaleski (London: John Lane; Boston: Roberts Brothers

Roberts Brothers (publishers)

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, 1895). The fourth was first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

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for January, 1955. The Cummings King Monk stories were drawn from The Pale Ape and Other Pulses (1911).

Contents

Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk contains the following tales:

1. Prince Zaleski
   • "The Race of Orven"
   • "The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks"
   • "The S.S."
   • "The Return of Prince Zaleski"
2. Cummings King Monk
   • "He Meddles With Women"
   • "He Defines 'Greatness of Mind'"
   • "He Wakes an Echo"