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Earth's Holocaust

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published May 1844
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The Devil tricks humankind into burning everything they have in hopes of starting anew and purified.

First published in Graham's Magazine, May 1844.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1844 Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, May 1844 George R. Graham & Co. MAGAZINE
1846 Mosses from an Old Manse Wiley and Putnam Collection 133|2133
1854 Mosses from an Old Manse Ticknor and Fields Collection 2163
1890 Allegories of the Heart Henry Altemus Company Collection 119
1950 Selected Tales and Sketches Rinehart Collection |26
October 1956 Cover The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories Bantam Books Anthology 118
1962 Cover Hawthorne's Short Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |24
1970 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 502
1971 Cover Science Fiction: The Future Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Anthology 42
1973 Speculations Glencoe Press Anthology
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 887
1987 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Penguin Books (US) Collection 336
November 1988 Cover The Book of Fantasy Viking Anthology 124
November 1988 Cover The Book of Fantasy Xanadu Anthology 124
June 1989 Cover The Book of Fantasy Viking / QPBC Anthology 124
August 1990 Cover The Book of Fantasy Black Swan Anthology
September 1990 Cover The Book of Fantasy Carroll & Graf Anthology 124
May 1999 Cover Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories Könemann Collection 223
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |887
June 2007 Cover The Apocalypse Reader Thunder's Mouth Press Anthology 82
2010 Cover The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fall River Press Anthology 37