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The Cold Embrace

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

First published June 1931
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

First published in the magazine The Welcome Guest, Sept 29, 1860.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1931 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goetry, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny Gollancz Anthology 145
1949 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goetry, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny Gollancz Anthology 145
April 1952 The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny Gollancz Anthology 145
1966 Cover The Cold Embrace and Other Stories Corgi Anthology 11
1967 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus I Panther Anthology
1974 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goetry, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny Causeway Books Anthology 145
1976 Cover Women of the Weird: Eerie Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 145
October 1976 Cover Classic Tales of Horror Constable & Co. Ltd. Anthology 97
December 1976 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus: Volume 1: Hauntings and Horror Penguin Books Anthology 159
February 1977 Cover Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories Corgi Books Anthology 152
1978 Cover Doomed to the Night: An Anthology of Ghost Stories William Kimber Anthology 61
1978 Cover Reign of Terror: Great Victorian Horror Stories, Volume Two Severn House Anthology 152
1982 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus Gollancz Anthology 145
1984 Cover Chamber of Horrors Octopus Books Anthology 129
1984 Cover The Penguin Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny Penguin Books Anthology 134
1985 Cover Chamber of Horrors Octopus Books Anthology 129
1987 Cover Chamber of Horrors Gallery Books / W. H. Smith Anthology 129
May 1988 Cover Occulta. L'omnibus del soprannaturale Mondadori Anthology 133
September 1988 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Virago Anthology 44
December 1988 Cover Anthology of Fear Marshall Cavendish Partworks Anthology 1
1989 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Virago Anthology 44
May 1989 Cover Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf Anthology 43
September 1989 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Charnwood Anthology 69
July 1990 Cover Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf Anthology 43
July 1990 Cover Ghost and Horror Stories Tynron Press Anthology 283
August 1992 Cover The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Virago Anthology 44
July 1993 Cover 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 59
1994 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus Bracken Books Anthology 145
September 1996 Cover Victorian Ghost Stories by Noted Women Writers Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 43
1997 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 59
May 2000 Cover The Cold Embrace and Other Ghost Stories Ash-Tree Press Collection 3
September 2000 Cover One Dark Night: 13 Masterpieces of the Macabre Ballantine Books Anthology 89
2002 Cover At Chrighton Abbey and Other Horror Stories Wildside Press Collection 45
October 2003 Cover 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories Sterling Publishing Anthology 59
August 2004 Cover At Chrighton Abbey and Other Horror Stories Wildside Press Collection 45
July 2005 Cover At Chrighton Abbey and Other Horror Stories Wildside Press Collection 45
September 2006 Cover Tales to Freeze the Blood Carroll & Graf Anthology 103
January 2010 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Volume 1 Leonaur Ltd Collection
January 2010 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Volume 1 Leonaur Ltd Collection
January 2010 Cover Horror Masters Vol. 4 River Styx Publishing Anthology
January 2010 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 7 LibriVox Anthology |3
February 2010 Cover The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce Penguin Books Anthology 67
March 2011 Cover The Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales by Masters Wildside Press Anthology
February 2012 Cover The Cold Embrace and Other Ghost Stories Ash-Tree Press Collection |3
August 2012 Cover Ancient Terrors Yurei Press Anthology 89
September 2013 Cover The Victorian Ghost Story: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of the Macabre (1852-1912) Oldstyle Tales Press Anthology
July 2014 Cover The Supernatural Omnibus Muschamp Press Anthology |145
February 2015 Cover 100 Great Short Stories Dover Publications Anthology
March 2015 Cover 100 Great Short Stories Dover Publications Anthology 136
March 2016 Cover Great Ghost Stories: 101 Terrifying Tales Fall River Press Anthology 88
May 2016 Cover The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women Dover Publications Anthology 29
October 2016 Cover The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1 Wimbourne Books Anthology |4
January 2018 Cover The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1 Wimbourne Books Anthology 66
November 2018 Cover Lost Souls Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology
February 2019 Cover The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon The British Library Collection 11
February 2019 Cover The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon The British Library Collection |11
September 2020 LampLight, September 2020 Apokrupha MAGAZINE 80
August 2022 Cover Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural Pegasus Books Anthology |5
August 2022 Cover Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural Pegasus Books Anthology |5
December 2025 Mothers of Horror Hemelein Publications Anthology |7