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The Joke

Fredric Brown

First published July 1961
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

First published in Detective Tales, October 1948 as "If Looks Could Kill". Only borderline speculative.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1961 Cover Nightmares and Geezenstacks Bantam Books Collection 113
1962 Cover Nightmares and Geezenstacks Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 113
1963 Albträume Hunna Collection
1963 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 182
May 1965 Cover Alpträume Heyne Collection 111
1967 Cover 1999 was me 't jaartje wel Bruna Collection 188
1968 Cover 1999 was me 't jaartje wel Bruna Collection 188
December 1969 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 182
1972 Cover Alpträume Heyne Collection 111
January 1972 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 182
1976 Cover Kleine Fredric Brown omnibus Bruna Collection 182
December 1976 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 182
March 1979 Cover Nightmares and Geezenstacks Bantam Books Collection 151
August 1981 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 182
September 1982 Cover The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown New English Library Collection 414
March 1983 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 182
June 1983 Cover Cosmolinea B-2 Mondadori Collection 251
1985 Cover Nachtmerrie in groen Loeb Collection 33
1985 Cover Carnival of Crime: The Best Mystery Stories of Fredric Brown Southern Illinois University Press Collection 182
October 1987 Cover And the Gods Laughed Phantasia Press Collection 404
October 1987 Cover And the Gods Laughed Phantasia Press Collection 404
October 1996 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 182
February 2001 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 630
October 2001 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 630
December 2001 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 263
July 2002 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 630
March 2005 Cover Ven y enloquece y otros cuentos de marcianos Gigamesh Collection 349
March 2006 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 263
September 2006 Cover Here Comes a Candle Millipede Press Novel 281
September 2006 Cover Here Comes a Candle Millipede Press Novel 281
October 2009 Cover Fantômes et farfafouilles Denoël Collection 263
June 2011 Cover From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 630
June 2012 Cover Miss Darkness: The Great Short Crime Fiction of Fredric Brown Bruin Books Collection 128