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The Watchers

Ray Bradbury

First published May 1945
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

First published in the May 1945 issue of Weird Tales. This is a different story than Bradbury's vignette of the same title that was first published in The Martian Chronicles. This story begins "In this room the sound of the tapping of the typewriter keys is like knuckles on wood..."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1945 Cover Weird Tales, May 1945 Weird Tales MAGAZINE 21
March 1946 Cover Rue Morgue No. 1 Creative Age Press Anthology 134
April 1966 Cover I Can't Sleep at Night Whiting & Wheaton Anthology 7
1967 Cover I Can't Sleep at Night Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Anthology 7
1968 Cover I Can't Sleep at Night Corgi Anthology 7
1969 Cover Bloch and Bradbury Tower Books Anthology 29
1969 Cover Bloch and Bradbury Tower Books Anthology 29
September 1970 Cover Fever Dream: and Other Fantasies Sphere Anthology 31
1972 Cover Whispers from Beyond Peacock Press (Illinois) Anthology 15
1973 Cover Weird Tales, Summer 1973 Weird Tales MAGAZINE 2
2001 Cover Dark Carnival Gauntlet Publications Collection 441
2001 Cover Dark Carnival Gauntlet Publications Collection 441
2001 Cover Dark Carnival Gauntlet Publications Collection 441
August 2003 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 361
September 2003 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales William Morrow / HarperCollins / SFBC Collection 361
October 2003 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales The Easton Press Collection 361
April 2005 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Perennial / HarperCollins Collection 361
2007 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Perennial / HarperCollins Collection 361
December 2008 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2 HarperVoyager Collection
2012 Cover Weird Tales Pulp Classics on DVD Anthology 21|27021
June 2012 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2 Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
May 2017 Cover The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 3: 1944-1945 Kent State University Press Collection 126