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Over Insurance

John Collier

First published November 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A young couple, so in love that they develop a great fear of one of them getting hurt, decide to invest nine-tenths of their earnings into life insurance. As a result, they become so impoverished that it begins to affect their love for each other.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1951 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday Collection 103
April 1953 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 141
December 1957 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 105
1958 Cover Pictures in the Fire Rupert Hart-Davis Collection 152
1963 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection
1965 Cover Of Demons and Darkness Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
1965 Cover Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 113
1969 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 118
1969 Cover De Dame op de Schimmel De Arbeiderspers Collection 154
November 1972 Cover The John Collier Reader Alfred A. Knopf Collection 279
September 1975 Cover The Best of John Collier Pocket Books Collection
1980 Cover Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 113
March 1981 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday / SFBC Collection 112
May 2003 Cover Fancies and Goodnights New York Review of Books Collection 118