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Paid Piper

Tanith Lee

First published July 1981
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"On the eve of the Summer Festival, a Piper comes to Lime Tree. He leads the Procession of the rat god Raur. Later that night, he explains to Cleci, a Maiden of Raur, the reason for the price he has set for his services." —<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.daughterofthenight.com">Daughter of the Night bibliography</a>

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1981 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1981 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 53
May 1982 Cover Fiction, #329 OPTA MAGAZINE 69
January 1983 Cover Red As Blood or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer DAW Books Collection 7
January 1983 Cover Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Collection 7
March 1983 Cover Red As Blood (or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer) DAW Books / SFBC Collection 1
January 1985 Cover Fiction, #358 OPTA MAGAZINE 38
October 1989 Cover Cyrion Meulenhoff Collection 158
August 2014 Cover Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer Wildside Press Collection |1
September 2014 Cover Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer Wildside Press Collection
January 2024 Claidi Journals Series & More MotionAudiobooks Omnibus |14.007