Originally published in South-West Arts Review #2, October 1977. It was revised in 1979 for The Bloody Chamber. All reprints are of the revised version.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1979 |
|
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories | Gollancz | Collection | |8 |
| February 1980 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Harper & Row | Collection | 139 |
| 1981 | The Bloody Chamber | Harper Colophon | Collection | ||
| 1981 |
|
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| 1987 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Penguin Books | Collection | 108 |
| December 1987 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | |
| August 1989 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories | Gollancz | Collection | 134 | |
| July 1995 |
|
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 210 |
| July 1995 |
|
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories | Vintage (UK) | Collection | |
| April 1996 |
|
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories | Henry Holt | Collection | 210 |
| July 1996 |
|
Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories | Vintage (UK) | Collection | 210 |
| September 1996 |
|
The Young Oxford Book of Supernatural Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 22 |
| August 1997 |
|
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 210 |
| October 1997 |
|
Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers | W. W. Norton & Company | Anthology | 225 |
| September 1998 |
|
Vampire and Werewolf Stories | Kingfisher (US) | Anthology | 191 |
| September 1998 |
|
The Young Oxford Book of Supernatural Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 22 |
| October 1998 |
|
Vampire & Werewolf Stories | Kingfisher | Anthology | 191 |
| September 2004 |
|
Vampire Stories | Kingfisher (US) | Anthology | 191 |
| 2005 |
|
Vampire Stories | Kingfisher | Anthology | 191 |
| 2007 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Vintage (UK) | Collection | |
| 2012 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories | The Folio Society | Collection | ||
| February 2012 |
|
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories | Vintage (UK) | Collection | |
| October 2014 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Vintage (UK) | Collection | |
| May 2015 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | |
| May 2015 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 137 |
| September 2016 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Vintage (UK) | Collection | 181 |
| March 2018 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Audible Studios | Collection | |139 |
| October 2023 |
|
The Bloody Chamber | Vintage (UK) | Collection | 181 |