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An Inhabitant of Carcosa

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1891
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Notes

First published in the San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, Dec 25, 1886.

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Publications (60)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1891 Cover Tales of Soldiers and Civilians E. L. G. Steele Collection 241
1892 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 197
1898 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians G. P. Putnam's Sons Collection 265
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 308
1910 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 197
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 308
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 308
1930 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 197
1941 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Chatto & Windus Collection 197
December 1948 Cover Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 8 Avon Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 123
1964 Cover Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce Dover Publications Collection
1966 Cover Magazine of Horror, Winter 1966/67 Health Knowledge, Inc. MAGAZINE 101
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 51
October 1971 Cover The Spawn of Cthulhu Ballantine Books Anthology 93
October 1971 Cover The Spawn of Cthulhu Ballantine Books Anthology 93
June 1973 Cover The Edge of Never: Classic and Contemporary Tales of the Supernatural Fawcett Premier Anthology 49
1974 Cover Can Such Things Be? Citadel Press Collection 152
October 1975 Cover Quickie Thrillers: 25 Mini-Mysteries Washington Square Press / Pocket Books Anthology 36
January 1976 Cover Quickie Thrillers: 25 Mini-Mysteries Pocket Books Anthology 36
October 1983 Cover The Fantasy Hall of Fame Arbor House Anthology 21
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 51
1984 The Best of Ambrose Bierce Castle / Book Sales Omnibus 326
1988 Cover The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Picador / Pan Books Omnibus 532
June 1988 Cover The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats Robinson Anthology 21
April 1990 Cover Can Such Things Be? Citadel Press Collection
May 1990 Cover Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre Galahad Books Anthology 219
July 1990 Cover The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology 68
July 1990 Cover The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats Robinson Anthology 21
August 1990 Cover The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 68
October 1993 Cover The Hastur Cycle: 13 Tales that Created and Define Dread Hastur, the King in Yellow, Nighted Yuggoth, and Dire Carcosa Chaosium Anthology 9
1994 Cover The Anthology of Ghost Stories Tiger Books International Anthology 68
November 1996 Cover Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology
January 1997 Cover Can Such Things Be? Wordsworth Editions Collection
February 1997 Cover The Hastur Cycle: Second Revised Edition Chaosium Anthology 7
September 2002 Cover Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories MetroBooks Anthology 68
October 2002 Cover The Colour Out of Space New York Review of Books Anthology 55
August 2003 Can Such Things Be? Project Gutenberg Collection |23
2004 Cover Great Fantasy W. H. Smith Anthology 21
2004 Cover The World's Greatest Ghost Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 68
2004 Cover The World's Greatest Ghost Stories Magpie Books Anthology 68
January 2004 Cover Imaginings: An Anthology of Visionary Literature: Volume One: After the Myths Went Home Frog Books / North Atlantic Books Anthology 201
2005 The World's Greatest Ghost Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 68
June 2006 Cover The Hastur Cycle: Second Revised Edition Chaosium Anthology 7
2009 Cover Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce Coachwhip Publications Collection 16
January 2009 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 1 LibriVox Anthology |8
May 2012 Cover Can Such Things Be? LibriVox Collection
May 2012 Cover Can Such Things Be? Collection |308
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection
February 2014 Cover The King in Yellow Gateway / Orion Collection
September 2014 Cover The King in Yellow Wildside Press Collection
October 2014 Cover The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult Weiser Books Anthology 83
October 2014 Cover The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult Weiser Books Anthology |83
October 2015 Cover Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror New York Review of Books Anthology 55
April 2018 Cover Supernatural Short Stories Arcturus Publishing Anthology |11
June 2018 Cover Supernatural Short Stories Sirius / Arcturus Publishing Anthology |11
November 2018 Cover Lost Souls Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology
April 2019 Cover Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense Pegasus Books Anthology 143
April 2019 Cover Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense Pegasus Books Anthology
April 2023 Cover The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales British Library Publishing Collection 91
December 2023 Cover The Call of the Old Ones: An Annotated Cthulhu Mythos Collection HorrorBabble Anthology |30