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The Pikestaffe Case

Algernon Blackwood

First published 1924
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette


• Some sources state that this was originally serialized in Cassell's Magazine between 7/23 and 9/23. • FictionMags states that "probably previously appeared in Cassell's Magazine between 7/23 and 9/23", however, the only content by Blackwood listed in those issues is a 5 part essay titled "Adventurous Memories".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1924 Cover Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches Herbert Jenkins Collection 88
1925 Cover Tongues of Fire and Other Stories E. P. Dutton Collection 15
1926 Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches Herbert Jenkins Collection
October 1928 Cover The Argosy, October 1928 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 19
1929 Cover Strange Stories William Heinemann Collection
1929 Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches Herbert Jenkins Collection
1931 Strange Stories William Heinemann Collection
1934 Cover Mystery and Detection, No. 1 World's Work MAGAZINE 27
October 1949 Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural Peter Nevill Collection 316
April 1952 Cover Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural Peter Nevill Collection
1965 Cover Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural Spring Books Collection 316
1966 Cover Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural Spring Books Collection 316
February 1966 Cover Élève de quatrième ...dimension Denoël Collection 13
1967 Cover Les chefs-d'œuvre du fantastique Planète Anthology 215
1968 Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural Spring Books Collection 316
1969 Cover Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural Spring Books Collection 316
1973 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood Causeway Books Collection 266
December 1976 Strange Stories Arno Press Collection
April 1978 Cover Élève de quatrième ...dimension Denoël Collection 13
1979 Cover Der Griff aus dem Dunkel Suhrkamp Collection |6
January 2008 Cover Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural House of Stratus Collection
January 2020 Cover Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches Stark House Press Collection 58
January 2021 Cover Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird The British Library Anthology 127
August 2023 Cover Horror Stories Flame Tree Press Collection 331