The Sealed Room
| First published | September 1898 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
| Series | Round the Fire #4 |
"Lawyer sees a young man nearly run over by a cab and helps him into his decayed big house. Discovers his father was the banker who ruined lots of people and disappeared. There is one room sealed shut which the absconded father wrote the son not to open till he was 21. A few months later the young man arrives at that age and the lawyer is present at the unsealing of the door." (Books & Boots)
A non-speculative tale of terror. First published as "The Story of the Sealed Room" in the Strand Magazine, September 1898.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| September 1898 |
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The Strand Magazine, September 1898 | George Newnes | MAGAZINE | 242 |
| 1908 | Round the Fire Stories | The McClure Company | Collection | 221 | |
| 1908 |
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Round the Fire Stories | Smith, Elder & Co. | Collection | 229 |
| 1925 |
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The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure | George H. Doran | Collection | |6 |
| June 1929 |
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The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | |
| October 1939 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| December 1940 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| December 1945 |
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The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | 959 |
| March 1949 |
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The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | |
| August 1951 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| November 1956 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| August 1960 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | 959 | |
| November 1984 |
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Du fond de l'abîme | Néo | Collection | 7 |
| March 1989 |
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Les exploits du Pr Challenger et autres aventures étranges | Robert Laffont | Omnibus | 862 |
| May 1991 |
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Round the Fire Stories | Chronicle Books | Collection | 140 |
| October 2000 |
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Four Short Stories | Naxos Audiobooks | Collection | |4 |
| May 2004 |
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The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | 324 |
| February 2012 |
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The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | |324 |
| February 2012 |
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The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | |324 |
| December 2015 |
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Round the Fire Stories | MysteriousPress.com / Open Road | Collection | |
| October 2016 |
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Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Collection | |
| October 2016 |
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Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Collection | |
| February 2017 | Round the Fire Stories | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |229 | |
| March 2018 |
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Gothic Tales | Oxford University Press | Collection | 318 |