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.
External Links
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 |