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The Return of Andrew Bentley

August Derleth & Mark Schorer

First published September 1933
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The narrator is called on to intervene in a posthumous battle between his Uncle Amos and the dead necromancer Andrew Bentley, who wants to make use of Amos's corpse.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1933 Cover Weird Tales, September 1933 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 335
1941 The Other Worlds Longmans Anthology 449
May 1941 Cover The Other Worlds Wilfred Funk Anthology 449
1942 Cover The Other Worlds: 25 Modern Stories of Mystery and Imagination Garden City Publishing Co. Anthology 449
1942 The Other Worlds: 25 Modern Stories of Mystery and Imagination Blue Ribbon Books Anthology 449
1944 Famous Ghost Stories Modern Library Anthology 282
1956 Cover Famous Ghost Stories Modern Library Anthology 282
1962 Cover Famous Ghost Stories Vintage Books Anthology
1966 Cover Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People Arkham House Collection 99
February 1991 Cover Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories GuildAmerica Books / SFBC Anthology 518
February 2009 Cover "Who Shall I Say Is Calling?" and Other Stories: The Best Short Stories of August Derleth The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box & Arkham House & The August Derleth Society Collection 63
February 2009 Cover "Who Shall I Say Is Calling?" and Other Stories: The Best Short Stories of August Derleth The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box & Arkham House & The August Derleth Society Collection 63
November 2009 Cover Weird Tales, September 1933 Girasol Collectables Anthology 335
September 2012 Cover The Big Book of Ghost Stories Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 744
December 2012 Cover The Big Book of Ghost Stories Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology |744
2019 Weird Tales (disc 3, part 2) Anthology 335|32203335
June 2020 Cover The Big Book of Ghost Stories Highbridge / Recorded Books Anthology |744