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The Shout

Robert Graves

First published 1929
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes

  • First published in a limited edition chapbook, The Woburn Books #16, 1929.
  • From editor's foreword in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Second Series: It was written in 1926, when, as Mr. Graves tells us in Occupation: Writer, he "was still living on the neurasthenic verge of nightmare" ....
Made into a film in 1978.

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Publications (17)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1929 The Shout Elkin Mathews & Marrot Chapbook
1950 Occupation: Writer Creative Age Press Collection 71
April 1952 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1952 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 75
March 1953 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Second Series Little, Brown Anthology 17
May 1959 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 51
1961 Tales of Love and Horror Ballantine Books Anthology 116
February 1965 Venture Science Fiction [UK], February 1965 Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd MAGAZINE 2
September 1967 More Stories Strange and Sinister Panther Anthology 26
October 1969 Great English Short Stories Dell Laurel Anthology 266
March 1971 The Light Fantastic Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 92
October 1971 The Light Fantastic: Science Fiction Classics from the Mainstream Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 92
May 1972 The Light Fantastic Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 92
June 1977 The Best Ghost Stories Hamlyn Anthology 724
1982 Tales from Beyond the Grave Octopus Books Anthology 11
1989 Tales from Beyond the Grave Gallery Books / W. H. Smith Anthology 11
October 2001 Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny David R. Godine Anthology 25
January 2025 PseudoPod, 17 January 2025 Escape Artists, Inc. MAGAZINE