The Celestial Omnibus
| First published | March 1911 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
"A young boy discovers a spectral horse-drawn bus, driven by the Renaissance writer Sir Thomas Browne. The vehicle leaves town every evening for a 'Heaven' peopled by characters from literature." -- <i>The Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster</i>
First published in the magazine Albany Review, January 1908.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1911 |
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The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Sidgwick & Jackson | Collection | 54 |
| February 1912 | The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Sidgwick & Jackson | Collection | 54 | |
| March 1920 | The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Sidgwick & Jackson | Collection | 54 | |
| September 1923 |
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The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Sidgwick & Jackson | Collection | 54 |
| 1933 |
|
Traveller's Library | Doubleday, Doran | Anthology | |
| May 1943 | The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination | Doubleday, Doran | Anthology | 19 | |
| May 1943 | The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination | McClelland | Anthology | 19 | |
| 1944 |
|
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Modern Library | Anthology | 970 |
| 1945 |
|
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination | Garden City Publishing Co. | Anthology | 3 |
| 1947 |
|
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language | The Dial Press | Anthology | 223 |
| 1947 |
|
Collected Short Stories of E. M. Forster | Sidgwick & Jackson | Collection | 38 |
| 1947 | Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Hammond, Hammond & Co. | Anthology | 753 | |
| 1947 |
|
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Modern Library | Anthology | 970 |
| July 1947 |
|
The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 49 |
| September 1947 |
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The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 49 |
| 1949 | The Moonlight Traveller | The Bodley Head | Anthology | 19 | |
| April 1949 | Fancy Free | George Allen & Unwin | Anthology | 107 | |
| 1952 | The Moonlight Traveller | The Bodley Head | Anthology | 19 | |
| February 1952 |
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The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 49 |
| November 1952 |
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Fantastic, November-December 1952 | Ziff-Davis Publishing Company | MAGAZINE | 131 |
| September 1954 |
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Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination | Cardinal / Pocket Books | Anthology | 3 |
| September 1954 |
|
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination | Cardinal / Pocket Books | Anthology | 3 |
| 1955 |
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The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language | The Dial Press | Anthology | 223 |
| 1956 |
|
The Golden Argosy | Bantam Books | Anthology | |
| 1957 | Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Hammond, Hammond & Co. | Anthology | 753 | |
| November 1960 |
|
The Moonlight Traveller | World / WDL Books | Anthology | 7 |
| May 1961 | 31 Stories | Prentice-Hall | Anthology | ||
| October 1962 |
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Tales of the Uncanny | Panther | Anthology | |
| July 1965 |
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Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination | Washington Square Press | Anthology | 3 |
| 1968 |
|
Some Shapers of Man | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | Anthology | 204 |
| February 1968 |
|
The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster | Modern Library | Collection | 49 |
| 1971 |
|
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Hammond, Hammond & Co. | Anthology | 753 |
| 1972 |
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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Hammond, Hammond & Co. | Anthology | 753 |
| 1972 |
|
Collected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 41 |
| September 1976 |
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The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Vintage Books | Collection | 49 |
| 1977 |
|
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Book Club Associates | Anthology | 753 |
| 1982 | Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Hutchinson | Anthology | 753 | |
| September 1989 |
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Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by 20th Century Masters | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 309 |
| November 1990 |
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The Omnibus of 20th-Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | |
| November 1991 |
|
The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 309 |
| March 1992 |
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The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | |
| 1994 | Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Modern Library | Anthology | 927 | |
| October 1994 |
|
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Modern Library | Anthology | 927 |
| October 1996 | The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | ||
| September 1997 |
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The Machine Stops and Other Stories | Andre Deutsch | Collection | 29 |
| 2000 |
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That Untravelled World | Institute for the Study of English in Africa | Anthology | |2 |
| February 2001 |
|
The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature | North Atlantic Books/Tachyon Publications/Frog, Ltd. | Anthology | 561 |
| October 2010 | The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Project Gutenberg | Collection | ||
| February 2011 |
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The Machine Stops | Penguin Books | Collection | 57 |
| October 2012 |
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The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Start Publishing | Collection | |3 |
| August 2013 |
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The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature | Tachyon Publications | Anthology | 509 |
| June 2017 | Nota do Tradutor, June 2017 | Revista de Tradução Literária e Biblioteca Digital | MAGAZINE | ||
| October 2018 |
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The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories | Interactive Media | Collection | |
| July 2019 |
|
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy: The Ultimate Collection | Vintage Books | Anthology | 450 |
| July 2019 |
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The Big Book of Classic Fantasy: The Ultimate Collection | Vintage Books | Anthology | |
| April 2024 |
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The Machine Stops and Other Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 75 |