Under the Sunset
| First published | 1881 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Collection |
| Pages | x+191 |
| Price | 10/6 |
8 stories
Published November 1881, evidently for the Christmas gift season.
The publisher's standalone advertisement "A Charming Book for Children", The Athenaeum 2821 (1981-11-19) p678, specifies "Fcap. 4to, bound in vellum and gold, bevelled boards, gilt edges, 10s. 6d. [Now ready."
It quotes a review in The Spectator (one week earlier, #2785 p1440): "Under the Sunset may be tried with the grown-up world with perfect success ...".
"The Fairytales assembled in Under the Sunset (coll 1882) are sinister, though with touches of Allegory that may have made them seem, to the Victorian mind, suitable for children."
(underscore represents linked cross-reference)
--SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute
- 1st ed., 1st printing
- Published for the 1881 Christmas gift season as 1882.
- WorldCat record OCLC 2301794 provides a list of Contents (8 story titles in the sequence below) and notes: -- [14] plates -- "with illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W.V. Cockburn" -- "Vellum (skin) bindings", etc
- November publication may be inferred from advertisement "A Charming Book for Children", The Athenaeum #2821 (1981-11-19) p678, as "Fcap. 4to, bound in vellum and gold, bevelled boards, gilt edges, 10s. 6d. [Now ready." One week earlier, #2820 p629, there is a listing in "List of New Books" as "8vo. 10/6 vellum." British Library (BL, below) states "1882 [1881]" (year inferred or investigated, not stated).
- Price from Tuck
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Stephen A. Burgess | Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, August 1979 |
No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under the Sunset | Bram Stoker | Short Story |
| 13 | The Rose Prince | Bram Stoker | Novelette |
| 45 | The Invisible Giant | Bram Stoker | Short Story |
| 72 | The Shadow Builder | Bram Stoker | Novelette |
| 101 | How 7 Went Mad | Bram Stoker | Short Story |
| 123 | Lies and Lilies | Bram Stoker | Short Story |
| 133 | The Castle of the King | Bram Stoker | Short Story |
| 159 | The Wondrous Child | Bram Stoker | Novelette |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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| Under the Sunset |
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1978 | Newcastle Publishing | Trade Paperback | Collection | Paul Stinson | ix+190 | |
| Under the Sunset |
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2002 | Wildside Press | Trade Paperback | Collection | 140 | ||
| Under the Sunset |
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2005 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | Collection | 192 | ||
| Under the Sunset: Eight Classic Stories |
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2010 | Wildside Press | Trade Paperback | Collection | Maksim Pasko | 208 | |
| Under the Sunset |
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2015 | Start Publishing | eBook | Collection | |||
| Under the Sunset |
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2019 | Fantasy and Horror Classics | Trade Paperback | Collection | 210 |