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The Four-Fingered Hand

Barry Pain

First published 1911
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A man tries to debunk his friend's belief that he, like his father and grandfather, sees a spectral vision which warns him when he's about to do something which will harm him.

First published in Here and Hereafter, London: Methuen, 1911.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1911 Here and Hereafter Methuen Collection 152
1989 Stories in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Barr and Barry Pain William Kimber Anthology
July 1989 Cover Stories in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Barr, and Barry Pain Equation Anthology 192
1993 Cover 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 174
April 1994 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories Michael O'Mara Books Anthology 174
1995 Cover 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 174
1997 Cover 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 174
2003 Cover 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories Sterling Publishing Anthology 174
2004 Cover 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 174
August 2011 Cover The Undying Thing and Others Hippocampus Press Collection 110
April 2018 Cover Three Men in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome, Barry Pain & Robert Barr HarperCollins Anthology