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My Aunt Margaret's Mirror

Sir Walter Scott

First published October 1828
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

<br> Wikipedia provides plot summaries for all three of "The Keepsake Stories", three by Scott first published in <i>The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXIX</i> (all in the database December 2019).


First published in the 1828 Christmas gift annual, pp. 1-44, under the heading (second line, all caps) "By the author of Waverley." "Sir Walter Scott" is first in the List of Contributors and the Table of Contents listing is "Author of Waverley". --Google Books, as full view of this volume

Some sources may report the first publication date as November or December or Christmas 1828, or as 1829.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1828 The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX Hurst, Chance, and Co., and R. Jennings Anthology 1
1932 Cover Contes fantastiques Éditions Nilsson Collection 169
1945 Cover Twenty-Two Strange Stories Art & Educational Publishers Anthology 184
1971 Cover A Romantic Storybook Cornell University Press Anthology 155
1972 Cover Gothic Tales of Terror: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain, Europe, and the United States, 1765-1840 Taplinger Anthology 383
February 1972 Cover Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror & Romance 1765–1840 Gollancz Anthology 383
1973 Cover Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765–1840 Penguin Books Anthology 431
1973 Cover Gothic Tales of Terror, Volume One: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain Penguin Books (US) Anthology 431
1974 Cover Gothic Tales of Terror, Volume One: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain Penguin Books (US) Anthology 431
1974 Cover L'Angleterre fantastique de Defoe à Wells Marabout Anthology 81
1977 Cover The Supernatural Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott John Calder Collection 33
1981 Cover Le berceau du chat Union générale d'éditions Collection 135
1983 Cover Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765–1840 Penguin Books Anthology 431
October 1986 The Supernatural Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott Riverrun Press Collection 33
October 1991 Cover Horror Story (9) Garden Editoriale Anthology 206
June 2008 Cover Ghost Story Collection 5 LibriVox Anthology |9
February 2009 Cover Scottish Ghost Stories Wordsworth Editions Anthology 473
September 2016 Cover Swords & Steam Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 378
December 2021 Cover Phantasmagoria: The Weird Fiction, Poetry, and Criticism of Sir Walter Scott Hippocampus Press Collection 60