the story as "trash". Later reviews of the story were more positive; J. A. Cuddon called it "outstanding" and compared it with "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant and "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions. Brian Stableford described the story as an "authentic masterpiece of horror fiction", and Jason Colavito called it "possibly one of the greatest stories of its age". Hichens's Felix (1902), is an early fictional treatment of hypodermic morphine addiction, while The Garden of Allah (1904) sold well internationally, and was made into a film three times. Hichens published his memoirs in 1947, Yesterday. Selected bibliography Novels The Coast Guard's Secret (1886) The Green Carnation (published anonymously, 1894; republished, 1949) – available at Wikisource An Imaginative Man (1895) Flames (1897) The Londoners (1898) The Slave (1899) The Prophet of Berkeley Square (1901) Felix (1902) Black Spaniel, and Other Stories (1905) The Garden of Allah (1904), elaborately presented as a play in New York City and filmed thrice, in 1916, 1927 (with Alice Terry) and 1936 (one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor features, with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer) The Woman with the Fan (1904) The Call of the Blood (1906) Barbary Sheep (1907) A Spirit in Prison (1908) Bella Donna (1909), in which Alla Nazimova starred on Broadway in 1912, filmed in 1915, in 1923 with Pola Negri and in 1934 with Mary Ellis and Conrad Veidt. The Fruitful Vine (1911) The Dweller on the Threshold (1911) The Way of Ambition (1913) In the Wilderness (1917) Snake-Bite (1919) Mrs. Marden (1919) Spirit of the Time (1921) December Love (1922) The Last Time (1924) After the Verdict (1924) The Bracelet (1930) The First Lady Brendon (1931) Mortimer Brice (1932) The Paradine Case (1933) – film version directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1947 The Power To Kill (1934) The Pyramid (1936) The Sixth of October (1936) Daniel Airlie (1937) Secret Information (1938) The Journey Up (1938) That Which Is Hidden (1939) The Million (1940) A New Way of Life (1942) Veils (1943) Harps in the Wind (1945) Beneath the Magic (1950) Collections The Folly of Eustace: And Other Stories (1896) Bye-Ways (1897) Tongues of Conscience (1898, 1900) The Black Spaniel: And Other Stories (1905) Snake-Bite: And Other Stories (1919) The Return of the Soul and Other Stories (2001; ed. S. T. Joshi) Nonfiction The Spell of Egypt (1910) Yesterday (1947) Anthologies containing stories by Hichens Great Short Stories