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Theodore Sturgeon

First published August 1940
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes

Written in March or April 1940, according to Paul Williams' story notes in The Ultimate Egoist.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2016 Retro Hugo Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (72)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1940 Unknown, August 1940 Street & Smith Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 97
August 1940 Unknown [UK], August 1940 Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd MAGAZINE 67
1946 Who Knocks?: Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur Rinehart Anthology 135
January 1947 Argosy, January 1947 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 39
1948 Without Sorcery Prime Press Collection 33
1948 It Prime Press Chapbook
1959 Br-r-r-! Avon Anthology 11
June 1961 Not Without Sorcery Ballantine Books Collection 10
December 1964 Who Knocks? Panther Anthology 51
1965 The Dark Side Doubleday Anthology 144
February 1965 The Dark Side Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 144
1967 Famous Monster Tales D. Van Nostrand Company Anthology 97
1967 The Dark Side Corgi Anthology 107
November 1967 Stories That Scared Even Me Random House Anthology 129
1968 Stories That Scared Even Me Max Reinhardt Anthology 131
1969 The Dark Side Curtis Books Anthology 117
1970 Stories That Scared Even Me: Part One Pan Books Anthology 178
December 1970 Scream Along with Me Dell Anthology 201
1973 Weirdies: A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real Franklin Watts Anthology 211
May 1974 The Monster Makers Gollancz Anthology 182
September 1974 The Monster Makers: Creators and Creations of Fantasy and Horror Taplinger Anthology 182
1975 Weirdies Weirdies Weirdies: A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real Franklin Watts Anthology 211
November 1975 Creatures from Beyond Thomas Nelson Anthology 39
December 1975 Not Without Sorcery Ballantine Books Collection 5
December 1975 Not Without Sorcery Ballantine Books Collection 5
April 1976 Creatures from Beyond Thomas Nelson / SFBC Anthology 29
October 1976 From the Archives of Evil, Number 2 Warner Books Anthology
1977 Thirteen Tales of Terror Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 204
September 1977 Scream Along with Me Dell Anthology 201
October 1977 Archives of Evil W. H. Allen Anthology 50
1978 It Misfit Press Chapbook
1978 Horror Stories Ward, Lock Anthology 101
September 1978 Creepy Creatures Beaver Books Anthology 159
May 1979 Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil Mayflower Anthology 46
August 1979 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 2, 1940 DAW Books Anthology 125
August 1979 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 2, 1940 DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 125
September 1981 65 Great Tales of Horror Octopus Books Anthology 538
1982 65 Great Tales of Horror Octopus Books Anthology 538
1983 Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 125|2125
June 1984 Alien Cargo Bluejay Books Collection 11
April 1986 Alien Cargo Bluejay Books Collection 11
1988 Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond Galahad Books Anthology 108
June 1988 Things Hunting Men Baen Books Anthology 3
June 1988 Things Hunting Men Baen Books Anthology 3
March 1991 Back from the Dead DAW Books Anthology 291
July 1991 The Horror Hall of Fame Carroll & Graf Anthology 265
January 1992 The Horror Hall of Fame Carroll & Graf / SFBC Anthology 265
September 1992 The Horror Hall of Fame Robert Hale Anthology 265
December 1992 The Horror Hall of Fame Carroll & Graf Anthology 265
1993 Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond Bristol Park Books Anthology 108
June 1993 Nursery Crimes Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 117
1994 The Frankenstein Omnibus Chartwell Books Anthology 555
March 1994 The Frankenstein Omnibus Orion Anthology 555
March 1994 The Frankenstein Omnibus Orion Anthology 555
February 1995 The Ultimate Egoist North Atlantic Books Collection 303
February 1995 The Frankenstein Omnibus Orion Anthology 634
November 1998 The Ultimate Egoist North Atlantic Books Collection 303
October 2000 Selected Stories Vintage Books Collection 353
2002 Great Science Fiction Stories of 1940 Dorset Press Anthology 125
2003 The Frankenstein Omnibus Bounty Books Anthology 555
2009 Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead Tess Press Anthology 95
September 2009 Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead Black Dog & Leventhal Anthology 95
November 2010 The Ultimate Egoist North Atlantic Books Collection
September 2011 Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 495
January 2012 Zombies: A Compendium of the Living Dead Corvus Anthology 495
April 2013 Selected Stories Open Road Integrated Media Collection |10
April 2013 Selected Stories Open Road Integrated Media Collection |10
September 2013 The Ultimate Egoist Gateway / Orion Collection
December 2019 Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! HighBridge Audio Anthology |43
March 2021 Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing Anthology |43
March 2021 Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing Anthology |43
November 2022 Nightmare Abbey, Winter 2022 Dead Letter Press MAGAZINE 10