The Story of the Unknown Church
| First published | January 1856 |
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| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
The ghost of a long-dead stonemason recalls the building of a beautiful church, now lost to time; and how the small personal tragedy of his family is interwoven with the grand church's completion.
First published in the January 1856 issue of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. William Morris's first published story.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| January 1856 | The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, January 1856 | Bell and Daldy | MAGAZINE | 28 | |
| 1902 | The Story of the Unknown Church, and Other Tales | Thomas B. Mosher | Collection | ||
| 1903 | The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine | Longmans, Green and Co. | Collection | 1 | |
| 1904 | The Story of the Unknown Church, and Lindenborg Pool | J. Thomson | Collection | ||
| 1906 | The World of Romance, Being Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 | J. Thomson | Collection | ||
| 1907 | The Early Romances of William Morris in Prose and Verse | J. M. Dent & Sons | Collection | 141 | |
| 1913 | Prose and Poetry (1856-1870) | Oxford University Press | Collection | 2 | |
| 1923 | William Morris | Thomas Nelson & Sons | Collection | 367 | |
| 1934 | Stories in Prose, Stories in Verse, Shorter Poems, Lectures and Essays | Nonesuch Press | Collection | |4 | |
| March 1976 |
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Golden Wings and Other Stories | Newcastle Publishing | Collection | 1 |
| 1980 | Golden Wings and Other Stories | Borgo Press | Collection | 1 | |
| March 1990 |
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Die Sirene und andere phantastische Erzählungen | Suhrkamp | Anthology | 93 |
| 2001 |
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Classic Tales of the Supernatural | Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | 131 |
| 2002 |
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Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural | Gramercy Books | Anthology | 131 |
| 2004 |
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News from Nowhere and Other Writings | Penguin Books | Collection | 3 |
| March 2006 | The World of Romance, Being Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 | Project Gutenberg | Collection | ||
| June 2010 |
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The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine | Forgotten Books | Collection | 1 |