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The Story of the Last Trump

H. G. Wells

First published January 1926
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

<br> "Boon concludes with two humorous symbolic tales entitled "The Wild Asses of the Devil" and "The Last Trump". The latter tale engages theological themes that Wells would soon be developing in a serious vein in <a href="/story/699373/"><i>God the Invisible King</i></a> (1917)." --closing of Wikipedia book summary (May 2020)

A version was published July 1915 in US monthly magazine The Century as "The Lost Last Trump" by Reginald Bliss, with two full-page illustrations by Henry Raleigh, pp. 369-78 (viewed at HathiTrust).

Notes below this line are left intact, pending hoped-for comparisoin of versions. --2020-05-17 ---- First published in 1915 as part of Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump by Reginald Bliss (that is, Wells). That work is not a collection. As of April 2019 it is a non-genre novel at ISFDB (see).

This story is likely to be an extract from, or otherwise modified version of, the last chapter of Boon:   Chapter the Tenth: The Story of the Last Trump or pp. 295-342 in the 1st ed. (viewed at HathiTrust). The chapter contains 14 numbered sections, and the first 13 appear to constitute Boon's purported story. Section 14 begins (p. 336): "There was something of invalid peevishness even in the handwriting of Boon's last story, the Story of the Last Trump. Of course, I see exactly what Boon is driving at in this fragment. ..."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1926 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Tauchnitz Collection |10
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 655
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 655
September 1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 655
October 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 655
1929 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection
1929 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells The Literary Guild Collection
1937 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 577
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Garden City Publishing Co. Collection 577
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 577
1948 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 655
1957 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 655
1960 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
1965 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
September 1966 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 589
1974 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 589
1987 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells St. Martin's Press Collection 589
August 1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 673
July 2004 Cover Selected Stories of H. G. Wells Modern Library Collection 315
December 2006 Cover The Man Who Could Work Miracles Tartarus Press Collection
2009 Cover A Dream of Armageddon: The Complete Supernatural Tales Fall River Press Collection 325
January 2009 Cover A Dream of Armageddon Cybraria Collection
May 2010 Cover A Dream of Armageddon Kessinger Collection
February 2011 Cover H. G. Wells: Tales of the Weird and Supernatural Coachwhip Publications Collection
April 2011 Cover Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 730
February 2017 Cover Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection 453
2018 Cover Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection 453
December 2018 Cover Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection |34
2020 Cover Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection 453