A single man adopts an orphan who finds a set of friends in the country house to which they move.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 |
|
Some Ghost Stories | Cecil Palmer | Collection | 1 |
| 1947 |
|
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories | Bobbs-Merrill Company | Anthology | 348 |
| 1967 |
|
Between the Minute and the Hour: Stories of the Unseen | Herbert Jenkins | Collection | 40 |
| 1968 |
|
Één minuut voor middernacht | Bruna | Collection | 117 |
| 1974 |
|
Small Shadows Creep | E. P. Dutton | Anthology | 152 |
| 1976 |
|
Small Shadows Creep | Chatto & Windus | Anthology | 152 |
| March 1976 |
|
Some Things Weird and Wicked | Pantheon Books | Anthology | 151 |
| August 1977 |
|
Some Things Weird and Wicked | Bantam Books | Anthology | 129 |
| 1979 |
|
Small Shadows Creep | Puffin | Anthology | |
| October 1983 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | Jonathan Cape | Anthology | 90 |
| October 1983 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 90 |
| November 1984 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 90 |
| 1985 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Anthology | 94 |
| 1987 |
|
Das GeisterHausBuch: Band 1 | Otto Maier | Anthology | 179 |
| May 1987 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | ISIS Large Print Books | Anthology | 101 |
| 1988 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 90 |
| 1989 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 90 |
| 1992 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | The Noonday Press | Anthology | 90 |
| September 1996 | Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | The Noonday Press | Anthology | ||
| December 1996 |
|
The Occult Files of Francis Chard: Some Ghost Stories | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | 95 |
| April 2000 |
|
La porte ouverte: Histoires de fantômes d'enfants | Joëlle Losfeld | Anthology | 103 |
| February 2012 |
|
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Anthology | |
| September 2012 |
|
The Big Book of Ghost Stories | Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books | Anthology | 228 |
| December 2012 |
|
The Big Book of Ghost Stories | Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books | Anthology | |228 |
| December 2013 |
|
Browdean Farm & Other Stories | Burrage Publishing | Collection | |
| December 2013 |
|
Druid's Croft & Other Stories | Burrage Publishing | Collection | 47 |
| September 2015 |
|
Ghostly | Vintage (UK) | Anthology | |
| September 2015 |
|
Ghostly | Vintage (UK) | Anthology | |
| September 2015 |
|
Ghostly | Knopf Canada | Anthology | |
| October 2015 |
|
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories | Scribner | Anthology | 285 |
| October 2015 |
|
Ghostly | Scribner | Anthology | |
| September 2018 |
|
Ghostly | Vintage (UK) | Anthology | |
| June 2020 |
|
The Big Book of Ghost Stories | Highbridge / Recorded Books | Anthology | |228 |
| 2022 |
|
The Little Blue Flames and Other Uncanny Tales | The British Library | Collection | 113 |
| October 2023 |
|
Ghostly | Scribner | Anthology |