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Miriam

Truman Capote

First published June 1945
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

An elderly widow meets a young girl with the same first name as her, Miriam. The girl later comes to her home and becomes more and more intrusive.

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Publications (33)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1945 Mademoiselle, June 1945 MAGAZINE
1949 A Tree of Night and Other Stories Random House Collection 115
1950 A Tree of Night and Other Stories William Heinemann Collection 115
September 1952 Fantastic, Fall 1952 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 141
March 1953 Children of Wonder: 21 Remarkable and Fantastic Tales Simon & Schuster Anthology 145
July 1953 Children of Wonder: 21 Remarkable and Fantastic Tales Simon & Schuster / SFBC Anthology 145
June 1954 Outsiders: Children of Wonder Permabooks Anthology 161
1965 Shock! Popular Library Anthology 35
December 1965 Stories Strange and Sinister Panther Anthology 9
1971 The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 111
1972 The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers Taplinger Anthology 235
June 1972 The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers W. H. Allen Anthology 240
August 1973 The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers Signet / New American Library Anthology 235
November 1974 Detours Into the Macabre Pan Books Anthology 240
1978 The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology
1979 Twice-Told Tales: An Anthology of Short Fiction Houghton Mifflin Anthology 329
September 1981 65 Great Tales of Horror Octopus Books Anthology 99
1982 65 Great Tales of Horror Octopus Books Anthology 99
November 1982 Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Reader's Digest Association Anthology 156
1986 The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection Houghton Mifflin Anthology 585
September 1989 Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by 20th Century Masters Carroll & Graf Anthology 355
November 1990 The Omnibus of 20th-Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology
November 1991 The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 355
March 1992 The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology
April 1993 Masters of the Macabre: The Best of the 20th Century Robert Hale Anthology 235
November 1995 Supernatural Stories Kingfisher Anthology 142
November 1995 Supernatural Stories Kingfisher Anthology 142
September 1996 Supernatural Stories Kingfisher (US) Anthology
October 1996 The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology
October 2001 Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny David R. Godine Anthology 98
May 2004 Supernatural Stories Kingfisher (US) Anthology 142
October 2006 Scary Stories Chronicle Books Anthology 27
2009 American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now The Library of America Anthology 61