The Beast with Five Fingers

First published	1920
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

The story was revised for its first book publication in 1928. All subsequent publications probably reprint the revised version. First published in The New Decameron, Basil Blackwell (Oxford), 1919; this version can be read at the Famous and Forgotten Fiction link above.

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Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
1920	Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories	Doubleday, Page & Company	Anthology	123
April 1920	Famous Psychic Stories	Thomas Y. Crowell	Anthology	193
1921	Famous Modern Ghost Stories	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Anthology	197
1928	The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales	J. M. Dent	Collection
1928	The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales	E. P. Dutton	Collection
July 1931	Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	Gollancz	Anthology	777
1932	The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales	J. M. Dent	Collection
July 1932	Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	Gollancz	Anthology	777
1935	A Century of Thrillers: Second Series	Daily Express Publications	Anthology	525
1936	Uncanny Stories	Thomas Nelson & Sons	Anthology
1937	The Haunted Omnibus	Farrar & Rinehart	Anthology	315
1937	The Haunted Omnibus	Oxford	Anthology	315
1937	The Haunted Omnibus	Cassell	Anthology	315
January 1937	Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	Gollancz	Anthology	777
February 1938	Famous Psychic and Ghost Stories	Blue Ribbon Books	Omnibus	\|193
1939	Ghost Stories	J. M. Dent & Sons	Anthology	257
1939	Great Ghost Stories of the World: The Haunted Omnibus	Garden City Publishing Co.	Anthology	315
1941	The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales	Guild / Dent	Collection
1941	Great Ghost Stories of the World	Blue Ribbon Books	Anthology	315
1941	Great Ghost Stories of the World	Blue Ribbon Books	Anthology	315
October 1943	Tales of Terror	World Publishing Co.	Anthology	170
1946	Midnight Tales	J. M. Dent	Collection	172
1947	The Beast with Five Fingers: Twenty Tales of the Uncanny	E. P. Dutton	Collection	19
January 1948	Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	Gollancz	Anthology	777
February 1949	Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	Gollancz	Anthology	777
1953	Tales to Be Told in the Dark: A Selection of Stories from the Great Authors, Arranged for Reading and Telling Aloud	Dodd, Mead & Co.	Anthology	1
1953	Tales to Be Told in the Dark	Faber and Faber	Anthology	15
1960	Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark	Ballantine Books	Anthology	9
1962	The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Midnight Tales	Aldine	Collection
1963	Ghost Stories	J. M. Dent & Sons	Anthology	257
September 1963	Fiction, #118	OPTA	MAGAZINE	98
1964	Die Bestie mit den fünf Fingern	Diogenes	Collection	\|347
1964	Tales to Be Told in the Dark: A Selection of Stories from the Great Authors, Arranged for Reading and Telling Aloud	Dodd, Mead & Co.	Anthology	1
January 1965	Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark	Ballantine Bal-Hi	Anthology	9
1967	Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres	Hamish Hamilton	Anthology
1967	Het beest met vijf vingers en andere griezelverhalen	Meulenhoff	Collection	120
1967	The Second Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	Fontana	Anthology	91
1967	Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres	David White Company	Anthology	184
May 1967	Tales to Be Told in the Dark	Faber and Faber	Anthology	15
1969	The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	Fontana	Anthology	91
January 1969	Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark	Ballantine Bal-Hi	Anthology	9
October 1969	Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark	Ballantine Bal-Hi	Anthology	9
1971	Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres	Puffin	Anthology
February 1971	The Ghouls	W. H. Allen	Anthology	213
April 1971	The Ghouls	Stein and Day	Anthology	212
June 1971	The Ghouls	Stein and Day / BCE	Anthology	213
1972	Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres	Puffin	Anthology
April 1972	The Ghouls	Pocket Books	Anthology	215
July 1972	Ghost Stories	J. M. Dent & Sons	Anthology	257
1973	Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres	Puffin	Anthology	186
1974	Horrorscope: Volumen 2	Alfaguara	Anthology	31
1974	Monster	B. Wahlström	Anthology
1974	17 Horror-Stories	Heyne	Anthology	143
August 1974	The Second Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	Fontana / Collins	Anthology	91
October 1974	The Ghouls: Book Two	Orbit	Anthology	31
1975	Open at Your Own Risk	Houghton Mifflin	Anthology	314
1976	Open at Your Own Risk	Hamish Hamilton	Anthology	314
1976	Open at Your Own Risk	Book Club Associates	Anthology	314
October 1976	From the Archives of Evil, Number 2	Warner Books	Anthology
1977	Thirteen Tales of Terror	Charles Scribner's Sons	Anthology	96
February 1977	Histoires de morts-vivants	Presses Pocket	Anthology	351
October 1977	Archives of Evil	W. H. Allen	Anthology	82
February 1978	Histoires de morts-vivants	Presses Pocket	Anthology	351
July 1978	Histoires de morts-vivants	France Loisirs	Anthology	351
1979	Die Bestie mit den fünf Fingern	Diogenes	Collection	\|347
May 1979	Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil	Mayflower	Anthology	76
1980	The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	Fontana	Anthology	91
November 1981	The Second Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	Fontana / Collins	Anthology	91
November 1981	Al cinema con il mostro. Volume secondo	Mondadori	Anthology	32
1982	65 Great Spine Chillers	Octopus Books	Anthology	331
1982	65 Great Spine Chillers	Octopus Books / Marks and Spencer	Anthology	331
1983	65 Great Spine Chillers	Octopus Books	Anthology	331
1984	The Penguin Book of Horror Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology	338
1984	Pesadillas de celuloide	Forum (Spain)	Anthology	61
1985	65 Great Spine Chillers	Octopus Books	Anthology	331
1985	The Penguin Book of Horror Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology	338
October 1985	The Penguin Book of Horror Stories	Viking UK	Anthology
October 1987	The Penguin Book of Horror Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology	338
June 1988	Histoires de morts-vivants	Presses Pocket	Anthology	351
December 1990	The Man in Black: Macabre Stories from Fear on Four	BBC Books	Anthology	11
1991	The Penguin Book of Horror Stories	Bloomsbury	Anthology
April 1992	Reel Terror	Xanadu	Anthology	152
June 1992	Reel Terror	Carroll & Graf	Anthology	152
June 1993	Horror Story (14)	Garden Editoriale	Anthology	137
1994	Englantilaiset aaveet	Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö	Anthology	356
April 1994	The Ghouls	Bounty Books	Anthology	213
February 1997	La grande anthologie du fantastique: 3	Omnibus (France)	Anthology	63
2004	The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories	Wordsworth Editions	Anthology	310
August 2004	Famous Psychic Stories	Fredonia Books	Anthology
February 2005	Famous Modern Ghost Stories	Project Gutenberg	Anthology	\|5
February 2007	Horror Story Collection 1	LibriVox	Anthology	\|1
August 2007	Chefs-d'œuvre du fantastique: de E.T.A. Hoffmann à Stephen King	Omnibus (France)	Anthology	\|11
January 2008	Great Horror Stories: Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others	Dover Publications	Anthology
January 2008	Great Horror Stories: Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others	Dover Publications	Anthology	181
2009	The Beast with Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories	Wordsworth Editions	Collection	3
January 2009	Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories	Project Gutenberg	Anthology
June 2009	The Double Eye	Tartarus Press	Collection	60
September 2009	The Beast with Five Fingers	International Business Publications	Chapbook
January 2010	Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories	Dodo Press	Anthology
August 2011	M Is for Monster: A Modern Bestiary of Classic Monsters	Fall River Press	Anthology	313
October 2011	Ghostly Terror!	BBC Audiobooks	Anthology
November 2011	Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 15	LibriVox	Anthology	\|12
January 2013	The Second Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Ghost Stories	Wildside Press	Anthology	345
March 2015	The Beast with Five Fingers	LibriVox	Chapbook
December 2015	Tales to Terrify, #202	District of Wonders	MAGAZINE
November 2018	Lost Souls Short Stories	Flame Tree Publishing	Anthology
January 2021	Famous Modern Ghost Stories	Open Road Integrated Media	Anthology	\|5
January 2026	The Beast with Five Fingers	Heathen Shorts	Chapbook

The Beast with Five Fingers

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