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Saki

First published August 1911
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The story takes place in a central European princedom, and relates what happens when a visiting Englishman and his mother winess the reception of a dignitary where a child is to present him with an Easter egg.

Non-speculative murder story.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1911 Cover The Chronicles of Clovis John Lane, The Bodley Head Collection 101
October 1948 Cover The Chronicles of Clovis Penguin Books Collection
1951 Cover In the Grip of Terror Permabooks Anthology 277
1959 Cover Nachtelijke cavalcade Querido Anthology 51
1963 Cover Nachtelijke cavalcade Querido Anthology 53
March 1965 Cover Humor Horror and the Supernatural Scholastic Book Services Collection 41
March 1966 Cover Incredible Tales Dell Collection 156
January 1968 Cover Humor Horror and the Supernatural Scholastic Book Services Collection 41
September 1970 Humor Horror and the Supernatural Scholastic Book Services Collection 41
August 1971 Incredible Tales Dell Laurel-Leaf Collection 156
January 1972 Cover Humor Horror and the Supernatural Scholastic Book Services Collection 41
December 1974 Cover Humor Horror and the Supernatural Scholastic Book Services Collection 41
1976 Cover The Complete Works of Saki Doubleday Omnibus 154
1978 Short Stories J. M. Dent Collection 63
1978 Cover Horror John Murray Anthology 83
1982 The Complete Saki Penguin Books Omnibus 154
1982 Cover Huivering wekken: 26 onthutsende verhalen Loeb Anthology 34
1983 Cover The Best of Saki Picador Collection 65
1985 Short Stories J. M. Dent Collection 63
May 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 425
June 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 425
1986 Cover The Chronicles of Clovis Penguin Books Collection 75
1988 Cover Beroemde gruwelverhalen Elsevier Anthology
October 1990 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Dorset Press Anthology
December 1991 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Macdonald Anthology
October 1992 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Warner Books UK Anthology
1993 Cover The Complete Stories of Saki Wordsworth Editions Omnibus 112
May 1998 Cover The Complete Saki Penguin Books Omnibus 154
October 2000 Cover Saki: The Complete Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 154
January 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis Project Gutenberg Collection
February 2008 Cover The Chronicles of Clovis LibriVox Collection |15
November 2012 Cover The Chronicles of Clovis CreateSpace Collection
May 2016 Cover The Chronicles of Clovis LibriVox Collection |15