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A Wicked Voice

Vernon Lee

First published 1890
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

  • This story was initially written in French under the title "Voix maudite", and published in Les Lettres et les arts, August 1887.
  • It was re-written in English by the author in 1889, and then published in her collection Hauntings : Fantastic Stories, London, Heinemann, 1890, under the title "A Wicked Voice".
  • This English version was then translated back into French by Michel Chrestien in Lee's collection Les Epées de l'Effroi ; histoires surnaturelles, 1970, under the new title Une voix maléfique.
  • This last French version was reproduced in Anne Richter's anthology Le fantastique féminin d'Ann Racliffe à nos jours, 1977.
  • The English version was translated again into French by Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux under the title La voix maudite, and included in the collection La voix maudite in 2001.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1890 Hauntings: Fantastic Stories William Heinemann Collection |4
February 1890 Hauntings: Fantastic Stories F. F. Lovell Collection 193
1939 Cover Ghost Stories J. M. Dent & Sons Anthology 133
1954 Cover The Snake Lady and Other Stories Grove Press Collection 157
1955 Supernatural Tales: Excursions Into Fantasy Peter Owen Collection
1962 Cover The Virgin of the Seven Daggers Corgi Collection
1963 Ghost Stories J. M. Dent & Sons Anthology 133
1967 Cover Een schim als minnaar en andere griezelverhalen Meulenhoff Collection 47
1970 Cover Les épées de l'effroi: Histoires surnaturelles Marabout Collection 117
July 1972 Cover Ghost Stories J. M. Dent & Sons Anthology 133
1977 Cover Le fantastique féminin d'Ann Radcliffe à nos jours Marabout Anthology 181
1979 Cover Das unsichtbare Auge Suhrkamp Anthology
October 1986 Cover The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 87
February 1987 Cover Supernatural Tales: Excursions Into Fantasy Peter Owen Collection 127
May 1987 Cover The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 87
November 1988 Cover Supernatural Tales: Excursions Into Fantasy Arena (UK) Collection 127
October 1989 Cover The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 87
1995 Cover Le fantastique féminin d'Ann Radcliffe à Patricia Highsmith Complexe Anthology
October 1995 Cover The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 87
June 2001 Cover La voix maudite Terre de Brume Collection 85
February 2002 Cover Hauntings: The Supernatural Stories Ash-Tree Press Collection 87
May 2002 Cover Hauntings: Fantastic Stories Wildside Press Collection |4
May 2002 Cover Hauntings: Fantastic Stories Wildside Press Collection
2004 Cover Supernatural Tales: Excursions Into Fantasy Peter Owen Collection 127
March 2004 Cover Supernatural Tales: Excursions Into Fantasy Dufour Editions Collection 127
February 2006 Hauntings: Fantastic Stories Project Gutenberg Collection
March 2007 Cover Die Pflanzen des Dr. Cinderella: 25 unheimliche Geschichten Festa Anthology 368
October 2008 Cover The Virgin of the Seven Daggers Penguin Books Collection 123
October 2008 Cover The Virgin of the Seven Daggers Penguin Books Collection
June 2013 Cover Hauntings: Fantastic Stories CreateSpace Collection
December 2014 Cover Hauntings: Fantastic Stories CreateSpace Collection
October 2016 Cover The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1 Wimbourne Books Anthology |15
November 2017 Cover The Classic Horror Collection Arcturus Publishing Anthology |48
January 2018 Cover The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1 Wimbourne Books Anthology 257
March 2018 Cover The Classic Horror Collection Arcturus Publishing Anthology |48
May 2018 Cover The Classic Horror Collection Sirius / Arcturus Publishing Anthology |48
April 2020 Cover A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales The British Library Collection 177
October 2023 Cover A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales ISIS Audio Books Collection |177
October 2024 Cover Weird Fiction Penguin Books Anthology 43