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The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy

Gerald Kersh

First published July 1939
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Busto's Boarding House

Notes

First published in Penguin Parade #6, ed. Denys Kilham Roberts, Penguin, 1939.

Publications (16)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1939 Penguin Parade 6 Penguin Books Anthology 138
March 1943 Selected Stories Staples and Staples Collection
March 1944 The Battle of the Singing Men and Selected Stories Staples and Staples Collection 57
October 1944 The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories William Heinemann Collection 48
June 1945 Argosy, June 1945 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 39
1958 On an Odd Note Ballantine Books Collection 115
1958 On an Odd Note Ballantine Books Collection 115
1974 Uncanny Blackie & Son Anthology 199
November 1995 Ghost Movies: Famous Supernatural Films Severn House Anthology 102
November 1995 Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication Newmarket Press Anthology 160
1998 Classics of the Supernatural Pan Books Anthology
October 1999 The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 121
October 2013 The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories Faber and Faber Collection 48
November 2014 On an Odd Note Valancourt Books Collection |11
January 2015 On an Odd Note Valancourt Books Collection |11
October 2025 All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow British Library Publishing Anthology |13