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The Second Death

Graham Greene

First published May 1947
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Retelling of the Lazarus story: on his deathbed, a terrified man (not named in the story) tells about the time he was dead and was brought back by a wandering preacher.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1947 Cover Argosy, May 1947 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 11
February 1949 Nineteen Stories The Viking Press Collection
1954 Cover Twenty-One Stories William Heinemann Collection 147
July 1955 Cover Nineteen Stories Lion Library Collection 119
1973 Cover Twenty-One Stories Penguin Books Collection 122
1975 Cover The Haunted and the Haunters: Tales of Ghosts and Other Apparitions The Bodley Head Anthology 191
September 1975 Cover The Haunted and the Haunters: Tales of Ghosts and Other Apparitions Farrar, Straus and Giroux Anthology 221
February 1981 Cover Twenty-One Stories Penguin Books Collection
October 2010 Cover Twenty-One Stories Vintage Digital Collection