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The Last of the Season

Mercedes Lackey

First published 1987
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A short horror story about a child serial killer who decides to use his ruse as the local ice-cream man for one last kill of the season, but this child is protected.

First published in the magazine American Fantasy, Winter 1987 as 'The Last One of the Season'.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1987 Cover American Fantasy, Winter 1987 Robert & Nancy Garcia MAGAZINE 53
April 1999 Cover Werehunter Baen Books Collection 110
November 2001 Cover Werehunter Baen Books Collection 110
February 2004 This Scepter'd Isle Disk Baen Books Omnibus |5.08
March 2011 The Secret World Chronicle Disk Baen Books Omnibus |8.08
December 2012 Cover Werehunter Baen Books Collection
November 2013 Cover Dragon's Teeth Baen Books Omnibus 21
December 2013 Cover Dragon's Teeth Baen Books Omnibus 335
December 2013 Cover The Last of the Season Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust Chapbook