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The Trumpet

Walter de la Mare

First published 1936
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An ambiguous story of the supernatural when a boy falls to his death from a church roof. -- from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://tartaruspress.com/d8.htm">The Guide to Supernatural Fiction</a>

First published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, October 1936. Revised when reprinted in Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942); this version appears in Short Stories 1895-1926.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1936 Cover The Wind Blows Over The Macmillan Company Collection
October 1936 Cover The Wind Blows Over Faber and Faber Collection
November 1936 The Wind Blows Over Faber and Faber Collection 277
1937 Cover The Second Century of Creepy Stories Hutchinson Anthology 357
1942 Cover Best Stories of Walter de la Mare Faber and Faber Collection 325
1950 The Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare Alfred A. Knopf Collection 392
February 1957 Cover Best Stories of Walter de la Mare Faber and Faber Collection 325
January 1988 Cover L'amandier Éditions Ombres Collection
July 2001 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection 333
July 2012 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection