Famous Monsters [collection]

Despite the cover, this is a collection of stories that are far from conventional. If I tell you that the title story was originally called 'Famous monsters of filmland' (doubtless retitled for excellent copyright reasons, even though it isn't possible to copyright titles), and concerned the Hollywood career of one of H.G.Wells' Martians in the years after the failed invasion when the Martians realised that human blood was fatal to them and Earth gave the exiled Martians asylum. That's a fairly typical Newman story, and is typical of what's in this collection. Those who like this sort of thing will find that this is the sort of thing they like.