Incident on a Lake
| 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 |