The Eye and the Finger
Dust-jacket illustration by Howard Wandrei. | |
| Author | Donald Wandrei |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Howard Wandrei |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror, science fiction |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1944 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | xiii, 344 |
The Eye and the Finger is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American writer Donald Wandrei. It was released in 1944 and was his first book published by Arkham House. 1,617 copies were printed.
The 21 stories here collected had appeared previously in Weird Tales, Esquire, Argosy, Astounding Stories and other magazines. They were selected by the author and were the ones he considered to be his best at the time. The dust jacket illustration is by the author's brother, Howard Wandrei.
Don Herron quotes bookseller/publisher Roy A. Squires as saying that The Eye and the Finger is "one of the most difficult to find of Arkham House fiction titles - it was out of print in 1946." The collection has never been reprinted in its original form, although all the stories are included in the Fedogan & Bremer omnibus collections Don't Dream: The Collected Fantasy and Horror of Donald Wandrei and Colossus: The Collected Science Fiction of Donald Wandrei.
Chapter XII of The Web of Easter Island is a somewhat rewritten version of the story "A Fragment of a Dream".