A man named Klausner invents a machine that can hear sound the human ear cannot hear. It reproduces the sounds on a lower pitch so that human beings can hear it. With this machine he hears roses scream as his neighbor cuts them. The next morning he hears a tree scream when he cuts into it with an axe. He calls his doctor excitedly and asks him to come over at once. The doctor comes and Klausner says he wants him to listen to the tree's screams. He starts cutting into it with an axe and a large branch begins to fall They barely get out of the way in time. He asks the doctor if he heard the scream but the doctor will not say that he did. Klausner is very upset and demands that the doctor paint the two gashes with iodine.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1949 | The New Yorker, September 17, 1949 | MAGAZINE | |||
| September 1952 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 164 |
| 1953 |
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Someone Like You | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | |
| 1954 | Someone Like You | Secker & Warburg | Collection | ||
| 1959 |
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Br-r-r-! | Avon | Anthology | 158 |
| 1961 |
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Someone Like You | Michael Joseph | Collection | |
| August 1961 |
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Stories for Late at Night | Random House | Anthology | 71 |
| August 1961 |
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Someone Like You | Dell | Collection | 179 |
| December 1961 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 |
| 1962 | M'n liefje, m'n duifje | Meulenhoff | Collection | 140 | |
| January 1962 | Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | ||
| December 1962 |
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More Stories for Late at Night | Dell | Anthology | 51 |
| 1963 |
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M'n liefje, m'n duifje | Meulenhoff | Collection | 140 |
| 1964 |
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Verhalen die Hitchcock koos 3 | Het Spectrum | Anthology | 41 |
| 1965 |
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Someone Like You | Four Square Books | Collection | |
| 1965 |
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Someone Like You | Dell | Collection | |
| March 1967 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 |
| January 1968 | Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 | |
| September 1968 | Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 | |
| November 1968 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 |
| November 1969 |
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Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | |
| 1970 |
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Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection | 152 |
| August 1970 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 |
| 1972 |
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Someone Like You | Pocket Books | Collection | |
| August 1972 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 |
| October 1973 |
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Racconti per le ore piccole: volume primo | Garzanti | Anthology | 106 |
| 1974 |
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Science Fact/Fiction | Scott, Foresman and Company | Anthology | 205 |
| 1974 | Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 | |
| September 1976 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 |
| August 1977 |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | Bantam Books | Anthology | 140 |
| February 1978 |
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Sirius, #20 | Vjesnik | MAGAZINE | 126 |
| May 1978 |
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The Best of Roald Dahl | Vintage Books | Collection | 40 |
| September 1979 |
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Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | 346 |
| October 1979 |
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Stories of the Supernatural | William Kimber | Anthology | 21 |
| 1980 |
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More Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | 19 |
| October 1980 |
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Küßchen, Küßchen! | Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft | Collection | 205 |
| March 1983 |
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Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 33 |
| 1984 |
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Een Spelletje Met de Dood | Loeb | Anthology | 43 |
| 1985 |
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Rakkaani, kyyhkyläiseni / Joku kaltaisesi | Suuri Suomalainen Kirjakerho | Omnibus | 7|18 |
| May 1985 |
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Orbite hallucination | Londreys | Anthology | 35 |
| September 1986 |
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Completely Unexpected Tales | Penguin Books | Omnibus | |
| August 1990 |
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The Best of Roald Dahl | Vintage Books | Collection | |
| August 1990 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | |
| September 1991 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | 561 | |
| February 2000 |
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Skin and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Collection | 35 |
| March 2000 |
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Ten Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 116 |
| July 2000 |
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Skin and Other Stories | Viking | Collection | 35 |
| September 2001 |
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Skin and Other Stories | Puffin | Collection | 35 |
| January 2002 | Skin and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 35 | |
| October 2006 |
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Collected Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 201 |
| December 2009 |
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Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| December 2009 |
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Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| 2013 |
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Winter 2013 | McSweeney's Books | MAGAZINE | 27 |
| October 2024 |
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Gótico botánico. Cuentos de un verdor perverso | Impedimenta | Anthology | |15 |
| October 2024 |
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Gótico botánico. Cuentos de un verdor perverso | Impedimenta | Anthology | |15 |