Short Fiction Cobb, Irvin S.: The Escape of Mr. Trimm (collected shorts). v1. 02 Aug 2017

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THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM
A collection of short stories BY IRVIN S. COBB (1876–1944)

The contents of this book first appeared 1909–1913 in various magazines. “The Escape of Mr. Trimm” was published in 1913. Text is in the public domain in countries where copyright is “Life + 70” or less, and in the USA.


Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, editor, and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York in 1904 for the remainder of his life, writing for the New York World, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and other newspapers and magazines. Cobb wrote more than 300 short stories and 60 books (most of these being collections of his stories and articles). Some of his works were adapted for film.

Cobb was one of America’s most popular humorists during the first third of the 20th century, but his writing was not limited to comedy only. His descriptive writing was masterful, and his stories were often dramatic, poignant, tragic – even terror-ridden. Indeed, some of his works were greatly admired by H. P. Lovecraft (“Fishhead” [included in this collection] is cited as the inspiration for Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”; “The Unbroken Chain” was a model for Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls.”); and a number of his pieces appear in Ellery Queen anthologies

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