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The Head

E. Nesbit

First published July 1910
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

● Weird crime story in which a man seeks revenge for the negligent death of the woman he loved, and wants to do so by adding him to his waxworks. No speculative elements to this story.

● First published in The Strand, May 1907.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1910 Cover Fear Stanley Paul & Co. Collection
1973 Cover Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 69
1973 Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 69
October 1988 Cover In the Dark: Tales of Terror Equation Collection 118
June 2000 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection 128
July 2006 Cover The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror Wordsworth Editions Collection 117
May 2012 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection |128
September 2016 Cover Horror Stories Penguin Books Collection |8
September 2016 Cover Horror Stories Penguin Books Collection |8
September 2017 Cover In the Dark: Tales of Terror HarperCollins Collection
January 2018 Cover From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit Hippocampus Press Collection |12
February 2018 Cover In the Dark HarperCollins Collection
April 2018 Cover From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit Hippocampus Press Collection |12