A very effective plan for making money: offer a service to public figures who can't be seen punching the people they hate, to do it on their behalf.
Written in 1949, but first published in the 1980 collection More Tales of the Unexpected.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 |
|
More Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | 104 |
| September 1986 |
|
Completely Unexpected Tales | Penguin Books | Omnibus | |
| September 1991 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | 685 | |
| May 1998 |
|
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Viking | Collection | 211 |
| July 2000 |
|
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 211 |
| September 2001 |
|
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Collection | 201 |
| October 2006 |
|
Collected Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 236 |
| November 2008 |
|
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Paw Prints | Collection | |211 |
| June 2013 |
|
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Speak / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | |11 |
| September 2013 |
|
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories | Puffin | Collection |