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Incident on a Lake

John Collier

First published July 1941
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A mousy druggist inherits a large amount of money and decides to travel to exotic parts of the world, and though he offers to leave his tyrannical wife half the fortune, she decides to accompany him simply to prevent him from enjoying himself.

Publications (17)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1941 The New Yorker, July 26, 1941 MAGAZINE 13
November 1951 Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday Collection 98
April 1953 Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 135
December 1957 Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 101
1958 Pictures in the Fire Rupert Hart-Davis Collection 58
1962 Best Fantasy Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 89
1963 Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection
1965 Of Demons and Darkness Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
1965 Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 106
1969 Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 112
June 1970 Best Fantasy Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 89
October 1970 Argosy, October 1970 IPC Magazines MAGAZINE 45
November 1972 The John Collier Reader Alfred A. Knopf Collection 274
September 1975 The Best of John Collier Pocket Books Collection
1980 Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 106
March 1981 Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday / SFBC Collection 107
May 2003 Fancies and Goodnights New York Review of Books Collection 112