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At the End of the Passage

Rudyard Kipling

First published September 1891
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

Four British officials in India gather in the unbearable heat of a Sunday evening. The unusually temperamental host chases his guests away, but the worried doctor decides to remain and keep an eye on him.

Notes

First published in the U.S. in The Boston Herald, 20 July 1890, and in Lippincott's Magazine, August 1890.

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Publications (32)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1891 Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People Macmillan and Co. Collection 241
October 1891 Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People Macmillan and Co. Collection 241
May 1892 Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People Macmillan and Co. Collection 241
March 1968 The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 169
July 1969 The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 169
January 1971 The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Berkley Medallion Anthology 172
September 1973 The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 169
December 1974 The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 169
May 1977 The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 169
1980 Stories from Rudyard Kipling The Franklin Library Collection 151
January 1987 The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling W. H. Allen Collection 199
November 1987 Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling Signet Classic / New American Library Collection 142
1991 Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Oxford University Press Anthology 328
1991 Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Oxford University Press Anthology 328
October 1991 Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Oxford University Press / BOMC Anthology
October 1991 Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Oxford University Press Anthology 328
October 1992 Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Oxford University Press Anthology
October 1992 Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Oxford University Press / QPBC Anthology
November 2000 The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales Dover Publications Collection 81
2003 The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 328
May 2004 Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People Project Gutenberg Collection |241
February 2007 The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales Gollancz / Orion Collection 238
January 2008 Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books Collection |238
November 2008 Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books Collection |238
April 2009 Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books / SFBC Collection
2010 Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Fall River Press Collection 238
February 2010 The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce Penguin Books Anthology 204
November 2010 The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales Gollancz / Orion Collection
March 2011 The Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales by Masters Wildside Press Anthology
June 2013 Pseudopod, #337 Escape Artists, Inc. MAGAZINE
May 2014 Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books Collection |238
June 2015 Nota do Tradutor, June 2015 Revista de Tradução Literária e Biblioteca Digital MAGAZINE