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Shambleau

C. L. Moore

First published November 1933
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Northwest Smith

A legendary criminal planning a heist on Mars falls under the spell of a female humanoid alien he rescues from a lynch mob.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1933 Cover Weird Tales, November 1933 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 531
September 1948 Cover Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 7 Avon Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 3
1951 Adventures in Tomorrow Ambassador Anthology
April 1951 Cover Adventures in Tomorrow Greenberg Anthology 78
April 1951 Cover Adventures in Tomorrow Greenberg Anthology 78
1953 Cover Shambleau and Others Gnome Press Collection 37
1958 Cover Shambleau Galaxy Publishing Corp. Collection 3
February 1961 Cover Shambleau Consul Books Collection 41
February 1968 Cover Adventures in Tomorrow Belmont Books Anthology 59
February 1968 Cover Adventures in Tomorrow Belmont Books Anthology 59
February 1969 Cover The 2nd Avon Fantasy Reader Avon Anthology 46
November 1975 Cover The Best of C. L. Moore Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 7
1976 Cover Shambleau Sphere Collection 33
March 1976 Cover The Best of C. L. Moore Ballantine Books Collection 1
March 1976 Cover The Best of C. L. Moore Ballantine Books Collection 1
July 1976 Cover The Devil's Kisses Corgi Books Anthology 104
1977 Cover The Best of C. L. Moore Taplinger Collection 7
1980 Cover Shambleau Caedmon Chapbook |1
December 1980 Cover The Best of C. L. Moore Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 1
January 1981 The Best of C. L. Moore Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 1
September 1981 Cover Scarlet Dream Donald M. Grant Collection 11
September 1981 Cover Scarlet Dream Donald M. Grant Collection 11
October 1982 Cover Northwest Smith Ace Books Collection 1
December 1985 Northwest Smith Ace Books Collection 1
April 1986 Cover Northwest Smith Ace Books Collection 1
April 1987 Cover Vampires Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 255
July 1987 Cover Vampires Doubleday Anthology 255
October 1988 Cover The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories Penguin Books Anthology 255
October 1989 Cover The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories Penguin Books Anthology 255
August 1992 Cover Weird Vampire Tales Gramercy Books Anthology 147
December 1992 Cover The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II Xanadu Anthology 464
February 1993 Cover The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II Carroll & Graf Anthology 464
April 1994 Cover The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II Carroll & Graf Anthology 464
August 1994 Cover The SF Collection Chancellor Press Anthology 78
October 1994 Cover Tomorrow Sucks Baen Books Anthology 231
May 1995 Cover The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women Penguin Books Anthology 469
September 1997 Cover Girls' Night Out: Twenty-Nine Female Vampire Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 336
October 1997 Cover Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction Oxford University Press Anthology 136
September 1999 Cover Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction Oxford University Press Anthology 136
July 2000 Cover The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 525
July 2002 Cover Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 165
2003 Cover The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 525
January 2005 Cover The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology 471
January 2005 Cover The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology 20
January 2005 Cover The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology
February 2005 Cover The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books / SFBC Anthology
July 2005 Cover Two-Handed Engine Centipede Press Collection 9
May 2006 Cover Two-Handed Engine: The Selected Stories of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore Centipede Press / SFBC Collection 9
June 2006 Cover The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology 471
May 2007 Cover The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |17.22
May 2007 The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |17.22
July 2007 The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2006 Disk Baen Books Omnibus |3.22
January 2008 Cover Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith Paizo Publishing Collection 17
March 2008 The David Drake When the Tide Rises Disk Baen Books Omnibus |17.22
March 2009 Cover Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith Paizo Publishing / SFBC Collection 17
March 2009 Cover Shambleau: A Northwest Smith Adventure Wildside Press Chapbook
August 2010 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Anthology 110
August 2010 Cover The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Anthology 110
October 2010 The 1635: The Eastern Front Disk Baen Books Omnibus |19.22
2011 Cover Tomorrow Sucks Fall River Press Anthology 240
February 2011 Cover The Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Science Fiction Stories by Masters Wildside Press Anthology
June 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |87
September 2011 Cover Northwest of Earth Gateway / Orion Collection
December 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |87
January 2012 Cover The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 Cemetery Dance Publications Anthology 465
January 2014 Cover Jirel of Joiry / Northwest of Earth / Judgment Night Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 155
September 2015 Cover Northwest Smith Diversion Books Collection
September 2015 Cover The Best of C. L. Moore Diversion Books Collection |1
June 2016 Cover Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Omnibus 166
June 2016 Cover Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Omnibus 166
September 2016 Cover Women of Futures Past: Classic Stories Baen Books Anthology 113
September 2016 Cover Women of Futures Past: Classic Stories Baen Books Anthology |7
2019 Weird Tales (disc 3, part 2) Anthology 531|32205531
March 2019 Cover Northwest of Earth Gollancz / Orion Collection 1
November 2019 Cover Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers: The Definitive Anthology of Space Opera Titan Books Anthology 403
November 2019 Cover Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers Titan Books Anthology