A man visits a carnival and is fascinated by one of the sideshows: an exceptionally beautiful woman who is constantly asleep and who visitors can pay a quarter to kiss. He buys her and finds a doctor to cure her sleeping sickness. On being awakened, she states that she prefers show business to being this prince's princess. But he is not willing to let her go.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| January 1941 |
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Presenting Moonshine | The Viking Press | Collection | 281 |
| January 1941 | Presenting Moonshine | Macmillan of Canada | Collection | ||
| January 1941 |
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Presenting Moonshine | Macmillan and Co. | Collection | |
| November 1951 |
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Fancies and Goodnights | Doubleday | Collection | 269 |
| April 1953 |
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Fancies and Goodnights | Bantam Books | Collection | 374 |
| December 1957 |
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Fancies and Goodnights | Bantam Books | Collection | 277 |
| 1963 |
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Fancies and Goodnights | Bantam Books | Collection | |
| 1965 |
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De Stalen Kat | De Arbeiderspers | Collection | 138 |
| 1967 |
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The Edge of the Chair | Harper & Row | Anthology | 474 |
| 1969 |
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Fancies and Goodnights | Bantam Books | Collection | 311 |
| January 1970 |
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The Graveyard Shift | Dell | Anthology | 229 |
| November 1972 |
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The John Collier Reader | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 433 |
| September 1975 |
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The Best of John Collier | Pocket Books | Collection | |
| March 1981 |
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Fancies and Goodnights | Doubleday / SFBC | Collection | 294 |
| May 2003 |
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Fancies and Goodnights | New York Review of Books | Collection | 311 |