Pillar of Fire

First published	May 1948
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

A man who died in 1933 finds himself awakening in 2349 as his grave is being excavated, as all dead people are now being cremated as part of an effort to eliminate any dark or disturbing influences, including the work of Bierce, Poe, Lovecraft, etc.; the rage this generates within him at the loss of an important part of human heritage is the force which animates him as he resolves to create an army of others like him and reverse the trend.

There is a play titled Pillar of Fire (1975) http://www.billoberst.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Pillar_Of_Fire_Touring_EPK.pdf that may be related to this short story.

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Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
May 1948	Planet Stories, Summer 1948	Love Romances Publishing	MAGAZINE	38
March 1949	The Other Side of the Moon	Pellegrini & Cudahy	Anthology	212
May 1949	The Other Side of the Moon	Pellegrini & Cudahy	Anthology	212
1956	The Other Side of the Moon	Grayson & Grayson	Anthology
November 1959	A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One	Doubleday	Anthology	141
February 1960	A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One	Doubleday / SFBC	Anthology	141
July 1963	The Other Side of the Moon	Panther	Anthology	7
August 1966	S Is for Space	Doubleday	Collection	39
August 1966	S Is for Space	Doubleday	Collection	39
1968	The Midnight People	Leslie Frewin	Anthology	172
1968	S Is for Space	Hart-Davis	Collection
1970	Vampires at Midnight	Grosset & Dunlap	Anthology	172
November 1970	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
November 1970	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
March 1971	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
1972	S Is for Space	Pan Books	Collection	36
1972	S Is for Space	Pan Books	Collection	36
March 1972	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
October 1972	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
November 1972	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
1974	The Midnight People	Ensign Books	Anthology	172
July 1974	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
November 1974	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
November 1975	The Midnight People	Everest Books	Anthology	172
April 1976	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
April 1977	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
March 1978	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
April 1978	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
September 1979	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
January 1981	S Is for Space	Bantam Books	Collection	27
May 1990	Classic Stories 2	Bantam Spectra	Collection	171
April 1993	Vampires at Midnight	Warner Books UK	Anthology	172
October 1994	Tomorrow Sucks	Baen Books	Anthology	1
1998	A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories	Avon Books	Collection	150
2001	A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories	Perennial / HarperCollins	Collection	150
October 2005	S Is for Space	PS Publishing	Collection
October 2005	S Is for Space	PS Publishing	Collection
October 2005	S Is for Space	PS Publishing	Collection
2006	Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451	Gauntlet Press	Collection
2006	Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451	Gauntlet Press	Collection
May 2010	A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories	Subterranean Press	Collection	25
2011	Tomorrow Sucks	Fall River Press	Anthology	4
August 2011	A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories	Harper Perennial	Collection	23
August 2011	A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories	Harper Perennial / SFBC	Collection
January 2012	A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories	Blackstone Audio	Collection	\|25
April 2013	A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories	William Morrow / HarperCollins	Collection	\|150
May 2013	A Pleasure to Burn	William Morrow / HarperCollins	Collection
April 2018	A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories	Recorded Books	Collection	\|150
2019	R Is for Rocket / S Is for Space	PS Publishing	Omnibus	255
March 2021	Pillar of Fire	Project Gutenberg	Chapbook

Pillar of Fire

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