Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
| First published | 1837 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
Synopsis
Dr. Heidegger has a vase containing water from the Fountain of Youth. Four elderly friends of his wish to taste it, saying that if they became young again they would avoid the mistakes of their youth. But as soon as they are rejuvenated they begin to act just as foolishly as ever.
Notes
First published (under the title "The Fountain of Youth") in the Knickerbocker Magazine, January 1837.
External Links
Publications (55)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1837 |
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Twice-Told Tales | American Stationers Co. | Collection | 319 |
| 1842 | Twice-Told Tales | James Munroe | Collection | |19 | |
| 1897 | Little Masterpieces | Doubleday & McClure | Collection | 1 | |
| 1898 | Little Masterpieces | Doubleday & McClure | Collection | 1 | |
| 1907 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 258 |
| 1922 | Hawthorne | Doubleday, Page & Company | Collection | |1 | |
| August 1925 |
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Weird Tales, August 1925 | Popular Fiction Publishing Co. | MAGAZINE | 240 |
| 1934 |
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A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen | Daily Express Publications | Anthology | 595 |
| 1934 |
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A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen | Daily Express Publications | Anthology | 595 |
| 1937 |
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library | Omnibus | 945 |
| April 1943 | The Great American Stories | Gulliver Books | Anthology | 13 | |
| December 1943 |
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Seven Strange Stories | Art & Educational Publishers | Anthology | 53 |
| 1945 |
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Twenty-Two Strange Stories | Art & Educational Publishers | Anthology | 9 |
| 1948 | Short Stories | Oxford Book Co. | Anthology | ||
| 1955 |
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Snapdragon: A Collection of Queer Stories | Arthur Barker | Anthology | 97 |
| 1955 | Snapdragon: A Collection of Queer Stories | McClelland | Anthology | 97 | |
| 1956 | Snapdragon: A Collection of Queer Stories | Associated Booksellers | Anthology | 97 | |
| 1962 |
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Hawthorne's Short Stories | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Collection | |9 |
| 1963 |
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The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories | Signet / New American Library | Collection | |
| November 1964 |
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Magazine of Horror, November 1964 | Health Knowledge, Inc. | MAGAZINE | 71 |
| 1965 |
|
Twice-Told Tales | Airmont Books | Collection | 132 |
| October 1966 |
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Beyond the Curtain of Dark | Four Square Books | Anthology | 195 |
| 1968 |
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Tales of the Uncanny | W. H. Allen | Anthology | 160 |
| 1970 |
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The Oblong Box & Other Tales of the Uncanny | Sphere Books | Anthology | 113 |
| November 1972 |
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Beyond the Curtain of Dark | Pinnacle Books | Anthology | 218 |
| November 1972 |
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Beyond the Curtain of Dark | New English Library | Anthology | 195 |
| 1973 |
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The Supernatural in Fiction | McGraw-Hill | Anthology | 299 |
| September 1974 |
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Tales of the Uncanny | White Lion | Anthology | |
| February 1975 |
|
Classic Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens and Others | Dover Publications | Anthology | 132 |
| 1976 | Tales of Mystery and the Unknown | Globe Book Company | Anthology | 121 | |
| 1982 |
|
Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 470 |
| December 1982 |
|
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century | Beaufort Books | Anthology | 55 |
| October 1989 |
|
Twice-Told Tales | Reader's Digest | Collection | 139 |
| February 1992 | Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century | Knightsbridge | Anthology | |4 | |
| February 1992 |
|
Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories | Dover Publications | Collection | 1 |
| September 1998 |
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Haunting Tales | Apple / Scholastic | Collection | 1 |
| May 1999 |
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories | Könemann | Collection | 165 |
| 2001 |
|
Twice-Told Tales | Modern Library | Collection | 174 |
| May 2002 | Ideomancer, May 2002 | Decadent Moon | MAGAZINE | [22]|22 | |
| October 2004 | Twice-Told Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 218 | |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |470 | |
| March 2008 |
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Weird Tales, August 1925 | Girasol Collectables | Anthology | 240 |
| October 2008 | The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural | Tartarus Press | Collection | 96 | |
| 2009 |
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Hawthorne After Dark: 22 Strange Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Coachwhip Publications | Collection | 86 |
| August 2010 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Gray Rabbit Publications | Collection | 145 |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 1 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 1 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| June 2012 |
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Twice-Told Tales | ReadHowYouWant | Collection | 397 |
| August 2014 |
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Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories | Talos Press | Anthology | 22 |
| February 2015 |
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100 Great Short Stories | Dover Publications | Anthology | |
| March 2015 |
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100 Great Short Stories | Dover Publications | Anthology | 67 |
| 2019 |
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Weird Tales | Pulp Classics on DVD | Anthology | 240|10602240 |
| March 2020 |
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Science Fiction of Antebellum America: An Anthology | C. W. Gross | Anthology | 502 |
| October 2025 |
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The Classic Science Fiction Collection | Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | 618 |
| November 2025 |
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The Classic Science Fiction Collection | Sirius | Anthology | 618 |