An Asiatic Professor travels west across Europe performing a marionette show. The tragic tale of Lady Purple; orphan, murderer of her foster parents, prostitute. As the years have gone by he has grown evermore frail, but the puppet's movements have grow more fluid. She finally becomes real, feeding on his blood and burning the body she leaves to find a brothel, for she can only be what he has made her. (Wikipedia)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 |
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Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces | Quartet Books | Collection | |
| 1976 |
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Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces | Quartet Books | Collection | |
| May 1981 |
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Fireworks | Harper & Row | Collection | 24 |
| February 1982 |
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Fireworks | Harper Colophon | Collection | 24 |
| November 1986 |
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Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories | Virago | Anthology | |14 |
| 1987 |
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Fireworks | Virago | Collection | 23 |
| April 1987 |
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Fireworks | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 23 |
| December 1987 |
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Fireworks | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | |
| 1988 |
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Artificial Fire | McClelland and Stewart | Omnibus | 27 |
| June 1988 | Fireworks | Virago | Collection | ||
| January 1989 |
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Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories | Penguin Books (US) | Anthology | |14 |
| September 1989 |
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Alef, #16 | Dnevnik | MAGAZINE | 54 |
| 1992 | Fireworks | Virago | Collection | 23 | |
| May 1994 | Fireworks | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | ||
| July 1995 |
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Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 41 |
| April 1996 |
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories | Henry Holt | Collection | 41 |
| July 1996 |
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Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories | Vintage (UK) | Collection | 41 |
| October 1996 |
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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 320 |
| October 1996 |
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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 320 |
| August 1997 |
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 41 |
| 1998 |
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Love Is Strange | Indigo | Anthology | 36 |
| 2004 |
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Fireworks | Virago | Collection | 23 |
| October 2006 |
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Fireworks | Virago | Collection | |
| June 2024 |
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Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings | The British Library | Anthology | 179 |