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The Five Senses

E. Nesbit

First published December 1909
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

<ul> "Professor Boyd Thompson's services to the cause of science are usually spoken of as inestimable ...". The story explains what suddenly "brought his scientific career to an end", omitting some crucial details. "He knew that by this drug ... he could intensify the five senses of any of the inferior animals. Could he intensify those senses in man?" --viewed at Google Books as <i>The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror</i> (Wordsworth, 2006), pp. 153-68 </ul>

First published December 1909 in The London Magazine with illustrations by {{a|Fred Leist}} --review by Bleiler as #1604

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1909 The London Magazine, December 1909 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE
July 1910 Cover Fear Stanley Paul & Co. Collection |1
1983 Cover E. Nesbit's Tales of Terror Methuen Collection 83
1985 Cover E. Nesbit's Tales of Terror Magnet Collection 83
October 1988 Cover In the Dark: Tales of Terror Equation Collection 148
June 2000 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection 162
July 2006 Cover The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror Wordsworth Editions Collection 144
May 2012 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection |162
September 2016 Cover Horror Stories Penguin Books Collection |7
September 2016 Cover Horror Stories Penguin Books Collection |7
September 2017 Cover Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction Bloomsbury USA Anthology |20
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 |17
February 2018 Cover In the Dark HarperCollins Collection
April 2018 Cover From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit Hippocampus Press Collection |17
September 2019 Cover Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science The British Library Anthology 193
September 2019 Cover Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science The British Library Anthology |193
October 2019 Cover Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science The British Library Anthology 193