An author of
the macabre and grotesque rather than the supernatural, Robbins
wrote The
Terrible Three (1917) about three circus freaks, which was
recycled into the short story "Spurs" , becoming the basis of the
notorious film Freaks (1932).
Short Stories
Silent, White and Beautiful and Other
Stories, Boni and Liveright (New York), [1920]
(Including:
"Who Wants a Green Bottle", "Wild Wullie, The Waster", "For Art's
Sake".)
Who Wants a Green Bottle? And Other Uneasy
Tales, Philip Allan (London), 1926
(Including:
"Wild Wullie, The Waster", "Toys", "A Bit of a Banshee", "A Son of
Shaemas O'Shea", "Cockcrow Inn".)
Novels
The
Unholy Three,
John Lane (New York and London), 1917
Originally entitled "The Terrible Three", it was
first published in All-Story Weekly, 14th July 1917. It was made
into a silent film in 1925 by MGM, and again as a talkie in
1930.
ditto, Burt (New York), 1929
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