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In the Light of the Red Lamp

Maurice Level

First published 1920
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

According to Michael Kelahan in his introduction to this story in the anthology The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories this story was originally translated into English in 1909 as "The Grip of Fear", and was originally published in Le Journal in France in 1906. The Black Mask appearance was a reprint of the 1909 translation.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1920 Cover Tales of Mystery and Horror Robert M. McBride & Company Collection
August 1920 Tales of Mystery and Horror Robert M. McBride & Company Collection 49
January 1921 Cover Crises: Tales of Mystery and Horror A. M. Philpot Collection 48
January 1991 Cover Gaslit Nightmares: Volume II Futura Anthology 313
October 1998 Cover 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 262
August 2008 Cover Tales of Mystery and Horror Black Mask Collection
2010 Cover The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories Fall River Press Anthology 211
January 2012 Cover The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 Cemetery Dance Publications Anthology 301
December 2012 Cover Tales of the Grand Guignol Centipede Press Omnibus 183
January 2013 Cover Tales of the Grand Guignol Centipede Press Omnibus 181
September 2013 Cover LampLight, September 2013 Apokrupha MAGAZINE 62