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The Grisly Folk

H. G. Wells

First published January 1926
Type Essay

Magazine article/essay about the encounter of Homo Sapiens with the Neanderthals, switching about mid-way to tell two episodes from their age, showing the latter as primitive brutes deserving extinction from the hands of our ancestors.

Published in The Storyteller April 1921.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1926 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Tauchnitz Collection |6
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 675
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 675
September 1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 675
October 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 675
1929 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection
1929 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells The Literary Guild Collection
1930 Cover Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis Zsolnay Collection |16
1934 The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and The Dream Odhams Press Omnibus 491
1937 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 595
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Garden City Publishing Co. Collection 595
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 595
1948 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 675
1957 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 675
September 1958 Cover Selected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 285
1960 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
1962 Cover Selected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 285
1964 Cover Selected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 285
1965 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
September 1966 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 607
1968 Cover Selected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 285
1973 Cover Selected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 285
1974 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 607
August 1975 Cover The Ancient Mysteries Reader Doubleday Anthology 38
1976 Cover The Ancient Mysteries Reader Gollancz Anthology 38
1977 Cover Selected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 285
1978 Cover The Ancient Mysteries Reader Book 1 Sphere Anthology 56
1979 Selected Short Stories Penguin Books (US) Collection 285
September 1980 Cover Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis Zsolnay Collection 209
1981 Cover Selected Short Stories Penguin Books (US) Collection 285
October 1982 Cover Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis Ullstein Collection 209
October 1983 Cover Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science Crown Publishers Anthology 237
1984 Cover Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science Harrap Anthology 237
1987 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells St. Martin's Press Collection 607
1988 Selected Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 285
1996 Cover Meistererzählungen Diogenes Collection 170
August 1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 684
April 2011 Cover Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 743
January 2017 Cover The Crystal Egg and Other Stories Wordsworth Editions Collection 215
2021 Cover Apeman! Sam Teddy Publishing Omnibus 136