- Credited with writing the shortest short story of all time, entitled "Knock" (1948). It's entirety reads: "The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door".
- His writing is marked by cleverness of style, original plots and ingenious endings, though his characters were usually only one-dimensional.
- In his introduction to the anthology "The Best of Fredric Brown", Robert Bloch wrote, "I hope they don't misspell his name," pointing out that "Fredric" was often misspelled as "Frederic" or "Frederick". Ironically, Bloch's own name was misspelled as "Block" on the spine of the hardcover edition.
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