Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer
| First published | April 1938 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Novelette |
"In SVB's second famous fantasy tale, <i>Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer</i> [...], Pye outwits <u>Death</u> the Fool-Killer by refusing to accept an offer of <u>Immortality</u>." (underscore represents cross-reference, linked online)
--SFE: <i>Encyclopedia of Fantasy</i> (1997), biographical entry by John Clute
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy gives title "Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer", with ampersand and hyphen, which matches the three 1938/1939 chapbooks.
- Originally published in US weekly The Saturday Evening Post, September 18, 1937.
- Published in monthly The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 1987 and Oct 1987. (as "Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer" --UNZ.org, thumbnail image) (two parts with word-counts 4713 and 3664 --TheFreeLibrary.com and Trove.NLA.gov.au respectively; sum 8377 words)
- Collected in: Post Stories of 1937 (Little, Brown; 1938) O. Henry Memorial Award, Prize Stories of 1938 (Doubleday, Doran; 1938)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1938 |
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Penguin Parade 2 | Penguin Books | Anthology | 13 |
| June 1938 | Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer | Countryman Press | Chapbook | ||
| August 1938 | Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer | Farrar & Rinehart | Chapbook | ||
| 1939 |
|
Tales Before Midnight | Farrar & Rinehart | Collection | 21 |
| March 1939 | Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer | William Heinemann | Chapbook | ||
| 1942 |
|
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét | Farrar & Rinehart | Collection | 90|2090 |
| June 1942 |
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Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét: Volume Two, Prose | Farrar & Rinehart | Collection | 90 |
| 1943 |
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The Short Stories of Stephen Vincent Benét - A Selection | Editions for the Armed Services | Collection | |
| 1943 |
|
Twenty-Five Short Stories | Sun Dial Press | Collection | |
| December 1946 |
|
The Stephen Vincent Benét Pocket Book | Pocket Books | Collection | 34 |
| May 1953 |
|
Fantastic, May-June 1953 | Ziff-Davis Publishing Company | MAGAZINE | 141 |
| 1961 |
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A Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories | Washington Square Press | Anthology | 1 |
| August 1967 |
|
The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Stories | Archway / Washington Square Press | Collection | 67 |
| April 1969 | The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Stories | Archway / Washington Square Press | Collection | 67 |