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The Quincunx

Walter de la Mare

First published 1955
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An old woman has hid her fortune, but her nephew reveals the key to its location while he is sleep-walking. -- from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://tartaruspress.com/d8.htm">The Guide to Supernatural Fiction</a>

First published in Lady's Realm, December 1906. Revised when collected in A Beginning and Other Stories (1955); this version appears in Short Stories 1927-1955.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1955 Cover A Beginning and Other Stories Faber and Faber Collection 159
November 1955 Cover A Beginning and Other Stories Faber and Faber Collection 159
1956 Cover Ghost Stories The Folio Society Collection 183
October 1996 Cover The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 200
October 1996 Cover The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 200
November 1996 Cover Ghost Stories Bloomsbury Anthology 195
July 2001 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection 434
June 2007 Cover Strangers and Pilgrims Tartarus Press Collection 39
September 2008 Cover Ghost Stories Alfred A. Knopf Anthology 347
September 2008 Cover Ghost Stories Alfred A. Knopf Anthology 347
July 2012 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection
2022 Cover Strangers and Pilgrims Tartarus Press Collection 39
December 2024 Cover Das Buch der Geister & Spukhäuser Festa Anthology 229