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.
| 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 |
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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 |
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65 Great Spine Chillers | Octopus Books / Marks and Spencer | Anthology | 331 |
| 1983 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Beast with Five Fingers | Heathen Shorts | Chapbook |