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The Third Drug

E. Nesbit

First published February 1908
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Roger Wroxham escapes a mugging on the streets of Paris only to fall headlong into the clutches of an unscrupulous doctor who intends to use him as an experimental subject.

First appeared in The Strand Magazine, February 1908 as "The Third Drug", as by "E. Bland", according to a review in the New York Review of Science Fiction and from "The Feminine Future", by Mike Ashley.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
February 1908 The Strand Magazine, February 1908 George Newnes MAGAZINE 179
July 1910 Cover Fear Stanley Paul & Co. Collection
October 1975 Cover Before Armageddon W. H. Allen Anthology 159
1976 Cover Before Armageddon Star Anthology 159
October 1978 Cover Stories of the Occult and Other Tales of Mystery William Kimber Anthology 138
1983 Cover E. Nesbit's Tales of Terror Methuen Collection 104
1985 Cover E. Nesbit's Tales of Terror Magnet Collection 104
1985 Cover Edith Nesbits skräckhistorier AWE/Geber Collection |8
October 1988 Cover In the Dark: Tales of Terror Equation Collection 44
June 2000 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection 44
March 2002 Cover Great Tales of Terror Dover Publications Anthology 178
July 2006 Cover The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror Wordsworth Editions Collection 43
2009 Cover The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers Peter Owen Anthology 167
May 2012 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection |44
February 2015 Cover The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers Dover Publications Anthology |75
March 2015 Cover The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers Dover Publications Anthology 75
December 2015 Cover Man-Size in Marble and Other Horrors: The Best Horror & Ghost Stories of Edith Nesbit Oldstyle Tales Press Collection 237
September 2016 Cover Horror Stories Penguin Books Collection |11
September 2016 Cover Horror Stories Penguin Books Collection |11
September 2017 Cover In the Dark: Tales of Terror HarperCollins Collection
January 2018 Cover From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit Hippocampus Press Collection |13
February 2018 Cover In the Dark HarperCollins Collection
April 2018 Cover From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit Hippocampus Press Collection |13
August 2020 Cover Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 Pegasus Books Anthology
August 2023 Cover More Voices from the Radium Age The MIT Press Anthology 79
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