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The Power of Darkness

E. Nesbit

First published April 1905
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

<br>• Man tries to spend the night in a wax museum and is driven insane. No speculative content.

First published April 1905 in The Strand Magazine 29:172, pp. 441-49 (viewed at HathiTrust), with 6 illustrations by {{a|Arthur Watts}} --first publication per the New York Review of Science Fiction

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1905 The Strand Magazine, April 1905 MAGAZINE
1929 Cover The Great Weird Stories Duffield & Co. Anthology 348
November 1991 Cover Strange Tales from the Strand Oxford University Press Anthology 342
October 1992 Cover Strange Tales from the Strand Oxford University Press Anthology 342
August 1993 Cover Horror by Lamplight Chancellor Press Anthology 305
June 2000 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection 208
July 2006 Cover The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror Wordsworth Editions Collection 169
May 2012 Cover In the Dark Ash-Tree Press Collection |208
May 2014 Cover Blessings from the Condemned: A Horror Legacy Darkness & Despair Anthology 37
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 |10
February 2018 Cover In the Dark HarperCollins Collection
April 2018 Cover From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit Hippocampus Press Collection |10