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Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1846
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

Young Goodman Brown sets off for a unholy meeting one night. His belief that he's the only person who would commit such an offense is about to be severely shaken.

Notes

First published (as by "the author of The Gray Champion") in the New England Magazine, April 1835.

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Publications (110)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1846 Mosses from an Old Manse Wiley and Putnam Collection 69
1854 Mosses from an Old Manse Ticknor and Fields Collection 87
October 1924 Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood Oxford University Press Anthology 126
May 1927 Weird Tales, May 1927 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 702
1932 More Great Ghost Stories Herbert Jenkins Anthology 92
1935 A Century of Thrillers: Second Series Daily Express Publications Anthology 259
1936 Uncanny Stories Thomas Nelson & Sons Anthology
1936 A Century of Ghost Stories Hutchinson Anthology 757
1937 The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 1033
1950 Selected Tales and Sketches Rinehart Collection |11
1959 American Short Stories: 1820 to the Present Scott, Foresman and Company Anthology 32
1960 The Minister's Black Veil / Young Goodman Brown Caedmon Collection |2
1962 Hawthorne's Short Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |17
1963 The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories Signet / New American Library Collection
May 1963 Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves Bantam Books Anthology 69
1965 Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves Bantam Books Anthology 69
December 1965 The Hell of Mirrors Four Square Books Anthology 50
1967 An Introduction to Literature Little, Brown Anthology 92
February 1967 Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves Bantam Books Anthology 69
August 1967 Speak of the Devil Dell Anthology 112
1968 The Birthmark and Other Stories Scholastic Book Services Collection
1968 The Birthmark and Other Stories Scholastic Book Services Collection
April 1968 Speak of the Devil Dell Anthology 112
1970 The Dark of the Soul Tower Books Anthology 113
1970 Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 149
1970 The Impact of Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories Cummings Publishing Company Anthology 186
May 1971 Witches, Wraiths & Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance Fawcett Premier Anthology 193
1972 Wizards and Warlocks Manor Books Anthology 75
1973 The Supernatural in Fiction McGraw-Hill Anthology 100
March 1973 Witches, Wraiths & Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance Fawcett Premier Anthology 193
August 1974 The Hell of Mirrors Sidgwick & Jackson Anthology 19
June 1975 Tales of the Occult Fawcett Crest Anthology 121
June 1976 Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories J. M. Dent Anthology 19
1979 Romantic Gothic Tales, 1790-1840 Perennial Library / Harper & Row Anthology 258
1979 Twice-Told Tales: An Anthology of Short Fiction Houghton Mifflin Anthology 625
August 1980 50 Great American Short Stories Bantam Books Anthology 6
June 1981 The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry NAL Meridian Anthology 199
1982 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 276
1987 Selected Tales and Sketches Penguin Books (US) Collection 133
October 1987 The Dark Descent Tor Anthology 132
1988 Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories Macmillan Anthology 613
August 1988 The Dark Descent Tor / BOMC Anthology 132
October 1988 Witches, Wraiths and Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance Fawcett Premier / Ballantine Anthology 199
December 1988 Anthology of Fear Marshall Cavendish Partworks Anthology 23
1989 Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult Prometheus Books Anthology 69
1989 Fictions: Second Edition Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Anthology 483
April 1990 Witches & Warlocks GuildAmerica Books / SFBC Anthology 225
May 1990 Devil Worshipers DAW Books Anthology 158
June 1990 The Colour of Evil Grafton Anthology 132
June 1990 The Colour of Evil Grafton Anthology 132
June 1991 The Colour of Evil Grafton Anthology
September 1991 The Color of Evil Tor Anthology 132
October 1991 The Penguin Book of Witches and Warlocks Penguin Books (US) Anthology 225
February 1992 Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories Dover Publications Collection 24
1993 Witches & Warlocks Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 225
August 1993 Horror by Lamplight Chancellor Press Anthology 84
October 1994 Thrillers: A Classic Collection Bracken Books Anthology 162
August 1995 Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 1
1996 Thrillers: A Classic Collection Leopard Anthology 162
December 1996 American Gothic Tales Plume / Penguin Anthology 65
1997 American Gothic Tales Plume / Penguin / BCE Anthology 65
1997 Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Pantheon Books Anthology 181
February 1997 The Dark Descent Tor Anthology 132
September 1997 American Gothic Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 93
November 1998 Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Vintage Books Anthology 181
1999 American Gothic: An Anthology 1787 - 1916 Blackwell Publishers Anthology 113
1999 American Gothic: An Anthology 1787 - 1916 Blackwell Publishers Anthology 113
May 1999 Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories Könemann Collection 103
July 2000 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 33
October 2000 My Favorite Horror Story DAW Books Anthology 163
February 2001 The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature North Atlantic Books/Tachyon Publications/Frog, Ltd. Anthology 97
July 2002 Great American Short Stories Dover Publications Anthology 1
2003 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 33
2004 The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories Wordsworth Editions Anthology 338
May 2004 My Favorite Horror Story BP Books / ibooks Anthology 199
2005 The Portable Hawthorne Penguin Books (US) Collection 51
2007 My Favorite Horror Story MJF Books Anthology 140
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |276
November 2007 My Favorite Horror Story ibooks Anthology
October 2008 The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural Tartarus Press Collection 44
2009 Hawthorne After Dark: 22 Strange Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne Coachwhip Publications Collection 58
2009 American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps The Library of America Anthology 35
2009 Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Penguin Books Anthology |181
May 2009 Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Penguin Books Anthology 181
2010 Backpack Literature Longman Anthology 279
2010 The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories Fall River Press Anthology 1
August 2010 Sympathy for the Devil Night Shade Books Anthology 62
August 2010 Sympathy for the Devil Night Shade Books Anthology
2011 The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 357
2011 Bedtime Stories Knopf Borzoi Anthology 43
2013 World's 25 Most Popular Ghost Stories (of the 19th Century) Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology |11
August 2013 The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature Tachyon Publications Anthology 79
August 2014 Tales to Terrify, No 136 District of Wonders MAGAZINE
February 2015 100 Great Short Stories Dover Publications Anthology
March 2015 Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Mariner Books Anthology 181
March 2015 100 Great Short Stories Dover Publications Anthology 54
August 2015 Chilling Horror Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 223
October 2015 The Devils & Demons Megapack Wildside Press Anthology
October 2016 The Color of Evil Tor Anthology 198
October 2016 Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves Pickle Partners Publishing Anthology
November 2016 Chilling Horror Flame Tree Publishing Anthology |223
March 2017 LampLight, March 2017 Apokrupha MAGAZINE |8
April 2017 Classic Horror Tales Canterbury Classics Anthology |5
July 2017 LampLight, Volume 5 Apokrupha Anthology 400
July 2018 The Devil-Worshippers Black Temple Publishing Anthology 20
2019 Weird Tales (disc 2) Anthology 702|20905702
September 2019 Spectral Tales: Classic Ghost Stories Warbler Classics Anthology 1
2023 Mass. Hallucinations Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology 231
March 2023 Witchcraft Classics: Best Witch Short Stories 1800-1849 Bottletree Books Anthology |7
March 2024 Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird The British Library Anthology 149