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Daphne du Maurier

First published 1947
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"A British steamer... is being pursued by a German U-boat, until a British sailing ship comes to their aid ... although there are no sailing ships on the British register during World War II." -- <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://retrohugowomen.livejournal.com/6896.html">memphismaniac</a>

First published in Harper's Bazaar, May 1940.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1947 Cover The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories Bobbs-Merrill Company Anthology 247
July 1962 Cover Tales of the Supernatural Panther Anthology 32
October 1975 Cover The Ghost's Companion Gollancz Anthology 94
1976 Cover The Ghost's Companion Taplinger Anthology 94
November 1976 Cover The Twelfth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories Fontana Anthology 15
December 1977 Cover The Twelfth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories Fontana Anthology 15
1978 Cover The Ghost's Companion Puffin Anthology 107
1978 Cover Masters of Shades and Shadows: An Anthology of Great Ghost Stories Doubleday Anthology 166
December 1981 Cover The Twelfth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories Fontana Anthology 15
October 1982 Cover When Churchyards Yawn William Kimber Anthology 33
September 1986 Cover Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories Blackie Anthology 75
October 1986 Cover Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories Peter Bedrick Books Anthology 75
1998 Cover The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 311
October 1998 Cover The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology 311