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The Open Door

Margaret Oliphant

First published January 1882
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

First published in Blackwood's Jan, 1882.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1882 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1882 William Blackwood & Sons MAGAZINE 1
1885 Two Stories of the Seen and the Unseen William Blackwood & Sons Collection 1
1885 The Open Door / The Portrait: Two Stories of the Seen and the Unseen Roberts Brothers Collection 3
1889 Stories of the Seen and the Unseen Roberts Brothers Collection 5|4005
1896 Stories of the Seen and the Unseen William Blackwood & Sons Collection
1902 Stories of the Seen and the Unseen William Blackwood & Sons Collection 1
1918 Great Ghost Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Anthology 62
April 1920 Famous Psychic Stories Thomas Y. Crowell Anthology 65
October 1924 Cover Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood Oxford University Press Anthology 267
August 1926 Cover Ghost Stories, August 1926 Constructive Pub. Corp. MAGAZINE 40
September 1928 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
1929 Cover The Omnibus of Crime Harcourt, Brace & Company Anthology 589
April 1929 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
August 1929 Cover The Omnibus of Crime Payson & Clarke Anthology 589
May 1930 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
September 1930 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
August 1931 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
1932 Cover More Great Ghost Stories Herbert Jenkins Anthology 220
June 1932 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
1933 The Ghost Story Omnibus Dodd, Mead & Co. Omnibus
January 1933 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
December 1933 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology 621
1934 Cover A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen Daily Express Publications Anthology 997
1934 Cover The Mystery Book Odhams Press Anthology 962
1934 Cover A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen Daily Express Publications Anthology 997
1935 Cover A Century of Horror Stories Hutchinson Anthology 153
May 1936 Cover Histoires de fantômes anglais Gallimard Anthology 214
1937 The Omnibus of Crime Garden City Publishing Co. Anthology 589
February 1938 Famous Psychic and Ghost Stories Blue Ribbon Books Omnibus |65
1939 Cover Narraciones Terroríficas, No 8 Editorial Molino MAGAZINE 57
July 1939 Great Short Stories of Detection: Part II, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology
January 1947 Great Short Stories of Detection: Part II, Mystery and Horror Gollancz Anthology
November 1962 Cover Histoires de fantômes anglais: suivies de: Nouvelles histoires de fantômes anglais Gallimard Omnibus 153
1963 Cover Cuentos de terror Taurus Anthology 247
1964 Cover Quiver of Horror Arrow Books Anthology 29
1965 Quiver of Horror Arrow Books Anthology 29
May 1967 Cover The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies Robert Hale Anthology 32
June 1967 Cover The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies Taplinger Anthology 32
1968 Cover Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 109
August 1968 Cover Dennis Wheatley's Second Book of Horror Stories Hutchinson Anthology 29
1971 Great Ghost Stories Books for Libraries Press Anthology 62
July 1974 Cover Uncanny Tales 1 Sphere Anthology 121
February 1975 Cover Classic Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens and Others Dover Publications Anthology 76
October 1976 Cover Classic Tales of Horror Constable & Co. Ltd. Anthology 58
1978 Cover Die unheimlichsten Gespenstergeschichten Tosa Anthology 243
February 1978 Cover Great Tales of the Supernatural J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton Anthology 34
October 1984 Cover The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Penguin Books Anthology 148
1985 Cover The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Penguin Books Anthology 148
October 1987 Cover The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Penguin Books Anthology 148
1988 Cover A Beleaguered City and Other Stories Oxford University Press Collection 115
September 1988 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Virago Anthology 150
1989 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Virago Anthology 150
May 1989 Cover Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf Anthology 150
September 1989 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Charnwood Anthology 243
July 1990 Cover Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf Anthology 150
1991 Cover The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Bloomsbury Anthology
May 1992 Cover Great Tales of the Supernatural J. M. Dent Anthology 34
August 1992 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Virago Anthology 150
September 1993 Cover The Television Late Night Horror Omnibus Orion Anthology 292
July 1994 Cover The Television Late Night Horror Omnibus: Great Tales from TV Anthology Series Artus Books Anthology 292
September 1994 Cover The Armchair Horror Collection: Great Tales from TV Anthology Series Orion Anthology 343
September 1996 Cover Victorian Ghost Stories by Noted Women Writers Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 150
September 1999 Cover The Open Door and Other Ghost Stories Phoenix Anthology 3
April 2000 Cover La porte ouverte: Histoires de fantômes d'enfants Joëlle Losfeld Anthology 31
September 2000 Cover A Beleaguered City and Other Tales of the Seen and the Unseen Canongate Books Collection
2003 Cover The Television Late Night Horror Omnibus Bounty Books Anthology 292
November 2003 The Open Door, and the Portrait Project Gutenberg Collection
August 2004 Cover Famous Psychic Stories Fredonia Books Anthology
October 2006 Cover The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Virago Anthology
February 2009 Cover Scottish Ghost Stories Wordsworth Editions Anthology 337
September 2009 Cover The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Virago Anthology 88
February 2010 Cover The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce Penguin Books Anthology 162
2013 Cover World's 25 Most Popular Ghost Stories (of the 19th Century) Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology |18
September 2013 Cover The Victorian Ghost Story: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of the Macabre (1852-1912) Oldstyle Tales Press Anthology
October 2014 Cover The 2014 Halloween Horrors Megapack Wildside Press Anthology
October 2017 Cover Classic Ghost Stories Vintage (UK) Anthology 343
November 2018 Cover Lost Souls Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 355
2020 Cover The Open Door Biblioasis Chapbook
April 2020 Cover Tre fantasmi Black Dog Edizioni Collection |4
June 2020 Cover The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 6 Wimbourne Books Anthology 213