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The Night Wire

H. F. Arnold

First published September 1926
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A night man in a newspaper transcribes telephone reports of a strange mist which is spreading death and horror over a wide area.

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Publications (41)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1926 Weird Tales, September 1926 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 380
January 1933 Weird Tales, January 1933 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 132|132.2
1947 The Night Side Rinehart Anthology 345
February 1949 Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 9 Avon Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 12
June 1965 Magazine of Horror, June 1965 Health Knowledge, Inc. MAGAZINE 5
November 1966 The Night Side Four Square Books Anthology 254
May 1985 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 328
June 1985 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 328
1989 The Eighth Green Man: (and Other Strange Folk) Starmont House Anthology 19
October 1990 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Dorset Press Anthology
December 1991 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Macdonald Anthology
October 1992 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Warner Books UK Anthology
July 1993 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 315
1997 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 315
October 2003 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories Sterling Publishing Anthology 315
November 2005 H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror Cold Spring Press Anthology 336
October 2011 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Corvus Anthology
May 2012 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Tor Anthology 154
May 2012 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Tor / SFBC Anthology 154
May 2012 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Tor Anthology 154
September 2012 The Big Book of Ghost Stories Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 400
December 2012 The Big Book of Ghost Stories Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology |400
July 2013 Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 21 LibriVox Anthology |9
October 2013 Pseudopod, #356 Escape Artists, Inc. MAGAZINE
March 2014 LampLight, March 2014 Apokrupha MAGAZINE 73
April 2014 The Third Macabre Megapack Wildside Press Anthology
September 2015 Tales to Terrify, #190 District of Wonders MAGAZINE
April 2016 Dark Moon Digest, April 2016 Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing MAGAZINE 39
August 2016 Lost Signals Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing Anthology 234
October 2017 The Ghost Box Hingston & Olsen Publishers Anthology |1
January 2018 HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 3 HorrorBabble Anthology |2
January 2018 HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 3 HorrorBabble Anthology |2
2019 Weird Tales Pulp Classics on DVD Anthology 380|10803380
2019 Weird Tales (disc 3, part 2) Anthology 132|32101132.2
June 2020 The Big Book of Ghost Stories Highbridge / Recorded Books Anthology |400
September 2021 25 Unmissable Horror Stories HorrorBabble Anthology |13
May 2022 The Night Wire and Other Tales of Weird Media British Library Publishing Anthology 227
July 2022 The Night Wire Project Gutenberg Chapbook
March 2024 Tales of Horror Lyons Press Anthology |19
March 2024 Tales of Horror Lyons Press Anthology |19
January 2025 Weird Tales: The Best of the 1920s Centipede Press Anthology 345|345.2