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The Music on the Hill

Saki

First published August 1911
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

"A newlywed couple moves to the countryside, on the wife's devising, as she believes it will settle her husband down. She is right, as her husband displays remarkable contentment, but there seems to be something else on their little bit of land. Her husband speaks of the ancient god Pan, and the wife hears a strange flute playing across the hills." (Dione Basseri)

Notes

First published in The Chronicles of Clovis, John Lane, 1911.

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Publications (57)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1911 The Chronicles of Clovis John Lane, The Bodley Head Collection 113
1935 A Century of Horror Stories Hutchinson Anthology 215
May 1943 The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination Doubleday, Doran Anthology 469
May 1943 The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination McClelland Anthology 469
1945 The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination Garden City Publishing Co. Anthology 479
October 1948 The Chronicles of Clovis Penguin Books Collection
1949 The Moonlight Traveller The Bodley Head Anthology 469
1952 The Moonlight Traveller The Bodley Head Anthology 469
September 1954 Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination Cardinal / Pocket Books Anthology 479
September 1954 Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination Cardinal / Pocket Books Anthology 479
September 1955 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1955 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 83
January 1959 The Supernatural in the English Short Story Bernard Hanison Anthology 406
November 1960 The Moonlight Traveller World / WDL Books Anthology 218
September 1962 Ghosts and Things Berkley Medallion Anthology 111
1964 No Such Thing As a Vampire Corgi Books Anthology 59
1964 Quiver of Horror Arrow Books Anthology 71
1965 Quiver of Horror Arrow Books Anthology 71
July 1965 Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination Washington Square Press Anthology 479
August 1968 Dennis Wheatley's Second Book of Horror Stories Hutchinson Anthology 71
September 1970 Ghosts and Things Berkley Medallion Anthology 111
1976 The Complete Works of Saki Doubleday Omnibus 161
October 1976 Classic Tales of Horror Constable & Co. Ltd. Anthology 250
June 1977 The Best Ghost Stories Hamlyn Anthology 511
February 1978 Great Tales of the Supernatural J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton Anthology 187
1982 The Complete Saki Penguin Books Omnibus 161
1982 65 Great Spine Chillers Octopus Books Anthology 542
1982 65 Great Spine Chillers Octopus Books / Marks and Spencer Anthology 542
1983 65 Great Spine Chillers Octopus Books Anthology 542
1983 The Best of Saki Picador Collection 71
1985 65 Great Spine Chillers Octopus Books Anthology 542
1986 The Chronicles of Clovis Penguin Books Collection 84
November 1988 The Book of Fantasy Viking Anthology 237
November 1988 The Book of Fantasy Xanadu Anthology 237
June 1989 The Book of Fantasy Viking / QPBC Anthology 237
March 1990 The Best Ghost Stories (abridged) Mallard Press Anthology 301
August 1990 The Book of Fantasy Black Swan Anthology
September 1990 The Book of Fantasy Carroll & Graf Anthology 237
September 1990 The Best Ghost Stories (abridged) Ivy Leaf Anthology 301
May 1992 Great Tales of the Supernatural J. M. Dent Anthology 187
1993 The Complete Stories of Saki Wordsworth Editions Omnibus 116
September 1996 100 Tiny Tales of Terror Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 301
May 1998 The Complete Saki Penguin Books Omnibus 161
October 2000 Saki: The Complete Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 161
January 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis Project Gutenberg Collection
October 2006 Scary Stories Chronicle Books Anthology 152
February 2008 The Chronicles of Clovis LibriVox Collection |17
2010 The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories Fall River Press Anthology 346
November 2012 The Chronicles of Clovis CreateSpace Collection
July 2013 Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 21 LibriVox Anthology |12
May 2016 The Chronicles of Clovis LibriVox Collection |17
July 2017 Great Supernatural Stories: 101 Horrifying Tales Fall River Press Anthology 461
September 2021 Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology Unbound Anthology |14
September 2021 Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology Unbound Anthology |14
March 2022 Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology Unbound Anthology |14
September 2022 PodCastle, 13 September 2022 Escape Artists, Inc. MAGAZINE
September 2022 The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan The British Library Anthology 145
June 2023 Horror Historia Violet CSRC Storytelling Anthology 286