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The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire

Walter de la Mare

First published 1925
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

The spirits of three oppressed boys working for a chimney sweep escape at night to play. He is able to stop them from returning to their bodies, which remain in a state of suspended animation and become curiosities for decades. -- from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://tartaruspress.com/d8.htm">A Guide to Supernatural Fiction</a>

First published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, October 1925.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1925 Cover Broomsticks and Other Tales Constable & Co. Ltd. Collection |7
1925 Cover Broomsticks and Other Tales Alfred A. Knopf Collection 200
1947 Cover Collected Stories for Children Faber and Faber Collection
1977 Cover Collected Stories for Children Puffin Books in association with Faber and Faber Collection 109
February 2006 Cover Short Stories for Children Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection |8
July 2012 Cover Short Stories for Children Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection