SOURCE: Redman, Ben Ray. “Imagination at Large.” Saturday Review of Literature 23, no. 15 (1 February 1941): 5.

In the following review, Redman praises Collier's imaginative plots in the stories in Presenting Moonshine.

This latest presentation of John Collier's own, particular, and inimitable brand of literary moonshine contains the story, “Thus I Refute Beelzy,” which recently disturbed and baffled the less imaginative readers of The Atlantic. It contains other tales, among its twenty-four, that would not only baffle and disturb but horrify them. By these same tales, more imaginative readers will be delighted, for almost every one of the double-dozen can be labeled accurately: Collier—Grade A. And that is a respectable label.

Moving among occult phenomena with the familiarity of a Machen or a Blackwood, Mr. Collier moves without their solemnity. In the presence of the supernatural and magical, he is gay and impudent. He is a collector of demons, a connoisseur...