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The Happy Children

Arthur Machen

First published 1924
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

First published in The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, ed. J. A. Hammerton, London: Educational Book Co., 1920.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1924 Cover The Shining Pyramid Martin Secker Collection |3
1925 The Shining Pyramid Alfred A. Knopf Collection 63
1925 The Shining Pyramid Martin Secker Collection
1946 Cover Holy Terrors Penguin Books Collection 94
1948 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Alfred A. Knopf Collection |10
1948 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Alfred A. Knopf Collection |10
1948 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Alfred A. Knopf Collection |10
1949 Tales of Horror and the Supernatural The Richards Press Collection
1963 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Panther Collection 70
1964 Tales of Horror and the Supernatural John Baker Collection 247
1964 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Panther Collection 70
December 1965 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Panther Collection 70
1970 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural John Baker Collection 247
December 1973 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: Volume 2 Pinnacle Books Collection 77
1975 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: Volume 2 Panther Collection 71
August 1976 Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: Volume 2 Pinnacle Books Collection 77
November 1983 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Pinnacle Books Collection 235
1987 The Town of a Magic Dream: Arthur Machen in Whitby Mark Valentine Chapbook
December 1987 Cover Le creature della Terra Fanucci Editore Collection 61
August 1993 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown GuildAmerica Books / SFBC Anthology 59
June 1994 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown St. Martin's Press Anthology 59
1997 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Tartarus Press Collection 245
1998 Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Tartarus Press Collection 245
May 2003 Cover The White People and Other Stories Chaosium Omnibus 280
May 2003 Cover The White People and Other Stories Chaosium Omnibus 280
June 2012 Cover Arthur Machen: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Omnibus |31
September 2013 Cover The Arthur Machen Megapack Wildside Press Collection
2017 Cover Holy Terrors Tartarus Press Collection 50
November 2018 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Fantasy and Horror Classics Collection
August 2019 Cover Collected Fiction, Volume 3: 1911-1937 Hippocampus Press Collection 179
April 2024 Cover Horror Stories Flame Tree Press Collection 226