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Originally posted by patrask:
You made me go and look at my Collier books: I own a limited signed edition of Green Thoughts, which was the original story for what became The Little Shop of Horrors, and a book of his short stories that has no publication info, no title page, just Six Stories. I loved his work as much as I love Ray's stories, and the genesis is definitely there in Collier, as Ray stated when he paid tribute to Collier in a late edition of Fancies and Good-nights.

There is a story I believe by Collier about how money corrupts a village when a stranger enters and offers to rent a home with a check. It is the most marvelous exploration of how credit corrupts the economy, and is very appropos to our time of trial.