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The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter

Angela Carter

First published 1974
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In a small upland village incest is a crime so rife the entire community has been shunned by other towns, and whilst the penalty for the crime is death there is one who can commit it with impunity. The executioner is a law to himself, killing his son for raping his daughter, but committing the same crime himself. (Wikipedia)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1974 Cover Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces Quartet Books Collection
June 1975 Cover Best SF: 1974 Bobbs-Merrill Company Anthology 162
1976 Cover Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces Quartet Books Collection
January 1976 Cover The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 8 Sphere Books Anthology 166
January 1979 Cover Galaxies intérieures 2 Denoël Anthology 111
May 1981 Cover Fireworks Harper & Row Collection 14
February 1982 Cover Fireworks Harper Colophon Collection 14
1987 Cover Fireworks Virago Collection 13
April 1987 Cover Fireworks Chatto & Windus Collection 13
December 1987 Cover Fireworks Penguin Books (US) Collection
1988 Cover Artificial Fire McClelland and Stewart Omnibus 19
June 1988 Fireworks Virago Collection
1992 Fireworks Virago Collection 13
May 1994 Fireworks Penguin Books (US) Collection
July 1995 Cover Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories Chatto & Windus Collection 35
April 1996 Cover Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories Henry Holt Collection 35
July 1996 Cover Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories Vintage (UK) Collection 35
August 1997 Cover Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories Penguin Books (US) Collection 35
2004 Cover Fireworks Virago Collection 13
October 2006 Cover Fireworks Virago Collection