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The Village Swindler

Brian W. Aldiss

First published 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An Englishman has a heart attack on a train in India, so he and his daughter stay briefly at a Hindu doctor's house, where she has some unsettling encounters with a poor man of the scheduled (untouchable) caste.

First published in The International, October 1968. Not really genre. Atmospheric/disturbing.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1970 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Faber and Faber Collection 80
1972 Cover Moment of Eclipse Doubleday Collection 79
November 1973 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 71
January 1977 Cover Decade: The 1960s Macmillan UK Anthology 100
1979 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 71
1979 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 71
June 1979 Cover Decade: The 1960s Pan Books Anthology 100
1985 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther / Granada Collection 71
September 1989 Cover A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories Gollancz Collection 45
April 1990 Cover A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories Atheneum / Macmillan Collection 45
May 1990 Cover A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories VGSF / Gollancz Collection 45
2000 Cover The Moment of Eclipse House of Stratus Collection 71