SOURCE: "Tales with the Spice of Genius: A Book of John Collier's Exquisite, Galvanic Stories," in New York Herald Tribune Books, January 26, 1941, p. 2.

In the following review of Presenting Moonshine, Barry, an English critic, praises Collier's "exquisite" writing style and his handling of supernatural and abnormal subject matter.

This gifted writer, whose novels are warmly cherished by an inner circle of admirers, has gradually earned much wider fame through his short stories. Since he writes like an angel that has browsed on the finest pastures of English literature, this is only proper. His exquisite and vital style combined with a strong dose of cynicism and a highly individual propensity for abnormalities—both the supernatural and the all-too-human kind—makes of him a remarkable teller of modern "Contes Drolatiques."

Let no one make the mistake, however, of gulping down whole this new collection of twenty-three stories. They should be...