The Bottle Imp

First published	1893
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

Synopsis

A poor Hawaiian native acquires a magical bottle which grants wishes, but carries a heavy price.

Notes

First published in the New York Herald, Feb 8/Mar 1, 1891.

External Links

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Publications (121)

Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
1893	Island Nights' Entertainments	Charles Scribner's Sons	Collection
1893	Island Nights' Entertainments	Cassell & Company	Collection
1896	The Bottle Imp	George Munro's Sons	Chapbook
1920	The Bottle Imp and The Isle of Voices	Kairyudo	Collection
1923	The Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Scribner's Sons	Collection	\|11
1928	The Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Gollancz	Collection	679
June 1932	The Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Gollancz	Collection	679
1937	Folio Club Presents RLS: Three Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson	Eldon Press	Collection	\|2
May 1943	The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	Doubleday, Doran	Anthology	98
May 1943	The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	McClelland	Anthology	98
1945	The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	Garden City Publishing Co.	Anthology	87
1947	Selected Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson	Random House	Omnibus	\|6
1949	The Moonlight Traveller	The Bodley Head	Anthology	98
1950	A Book of Queer Stories	University of London Press	Anthology	102
August 1950	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories	Coward-McCann	Collection	\|14
1951	The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Pocket Books	Collection
1951	Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Pocket Books	Collection
1951	Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Pocket Books	Collection
1951	Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Pocket Books	Collection
1952	The Moonlight Traveller	The Bodley Head	Anthology	98
1954	The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Pocket Books	Collection
September 1954	Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	Cardinal / Pocket Books	Anthology	87
September 1954	Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	Cardinal / Pocket Books	Anthology	87
1955	Famous Mysteries	Scott, Foresman and Company	Anthology	210
1961	The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Washington Square Press	Collection	167
1963	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural	Scholastic Book Services	Collection
1963	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Collection
December 1963	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories	Scholastic Book Services	Collection	108
December 1963	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural	Scholastic Book Services	Collection	108
1965	Great Tales of Mystery and Adventure	Platt & Munk	Collection	160
1965	Famous Tales of the Fantastic	Arthur Barker	Anthology	117
July 1965	Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	Washington Square Press	Anthology	87
October 1965	Famous Tales of the Fantastic	Hill and Wang	Anthology	119
October 1966	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories	Scholastic Book Services	Collection	108
October 1966	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories	Laurel-Leaf	Collection	102
1967	Famous Tales of the Fantastic	Panther	Anthology	98
February 1967	Rod Serling's Devils and Demons	Bantam Books	Anthology	101
February 1967	Rod Serling's Devils and Demons	Bantam Books	Anthology	101
1968	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Island Night's Entertainments / The Merry Men and Other Stories	Heron Books	Omnibus
1968	Thrillers and More Thrillers	Random House	Anthology	65
June 1969	The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels	Doubleday	Omnibus	539
1970	Thirteen Uncanny Tales	J. M. Dent	Anthology	78
June 1970	Island Nights' Entertainment	Scholarly Press	Collection
March 1971	Rod Serling's Devils and Demons	Bantam Books	Anthology	101
1972	Ghostly Experiences	Fontana Lions	Anthology	101
February 1972	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural	Scholastic Book Services	Collection
October 1973	Thrillers and More Thrillers	Windward / Random House	Anthology	65
1976	Devils, Devils, Devils	Franklin Watts	Anthology	11
1976	The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	John Calder	Collection	107
September 1977	Super Book of Ghost Stories	Hamlyn	Anthology	373
November 1977	The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Riverrun Press	Collection	\|5
1978	Fireside Reader	Reader's Digest	Anthology	9\|9.2
February 1978	The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Dell Laurel-Leaf	Collection	129
1979	Super Book of Ghost Stories	Hamlyn	Anthology	373
December 1982	Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century	Beaufort Books	Anthology	251
1983	Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature	Picador	Anthology	522
April 1984	Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature	Clarkson N. Potter	Anthology	522
May 1985	Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural	Doubleday / SFBC	Anthology	46
June 1985	Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural	Doubleday	Anthology	46
April 1986	Island Nights' Entertainments	University of Hawai'i Press	Collection
August 1986	The Bottle Imp and Other Stories	Books on Tape	Collection
November 1986	Magical Wishes	Signet / New American Library	Anthology	321
February 1988	The Body Snatcher and Other Stories	Signet Classic / New American Library	Collection	149
October 1990	Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural	Dorset Press	Anthology
1991	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural	Scholastic	Collection	99
August 1991	The Collected Shorter Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson	Robinson	Collection	571
September 1991	The Complete Shorter Fiction	Carroll & Graf	Collection	571
December 1991	Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural	Macdonald	Anthology
February 1992	Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century	Knightsbridge	Anthology	\|12
October 1992	Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural	Warner Books UK	Anthology
October 1992	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories	J. M. Dent	Collection	1
October 1993	Alfred Hitchcock's Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic	Smithmark Publishers	Anthology	303
December 1993	The Complete Shorter Fiction	Carroll & Graf	Collection	571
December 1993	Tales from the Prince of Storytellers	Northwestern University Press	Collection	328
December 1993	Tales from the Prince of Storytellers	Northwestern University Press	Collection	328
March 1994	The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition	Henry Holt	Collection	2:278\|2278
March 1994	The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition	Henry Holt	Collection	2:278\|2278
May 1994	The Bottle Imp	Tree Garden Workshop	Chapbook
August 1994	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories	Courage Books	Collection	101
September 1995	Island Nights' Entertainment	Project Gutenberg	Collection
1996	The Bottle Imp	Clarion Books	Chapbook
July 1996	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories	J. M. Dent	Collection	1
1997	Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday	Pantheon Books	Anthology	461
1998	The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels	Da Capo Press	Omnibus	539
November 1998	Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday	Vintage Books	Anthology	461
July 1999	Island's Night Entertainment	Quiet Vision Publishing	Collection
2001	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural	Scholastic	Collection	99
February 2001	The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature	North Atlantic Books/Tachyon Publications/Frog, Ltd.	Anthology	371
November 2001	The Body Snatcher and Other Tales	Dover Publications	Collection	55
January 2002	The Bottle Imp / El diablo de la botella / Rip Van Winkle	Anglo-Didacto	Anthology
September 2002	The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time	Warner Books	Anthology	60
June 2004	The Book of Wizards	Thunder's Mouth Press	Anthology	287
December 2004	The Suicide Club & Other Dark Adventures	Tartarus Press	Collection	405
2009	Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday	Penguin Books	Anthology	\|461
May 2009	Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday	Penguin Books	Anthology	461
July 2009	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Strange Tales	Arcturus Publishing	Collection	91
April 2010	The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson	Calder Publications Ltd	Collection	107
August 2010	Sympathy for the Devil	Night Shade Books	Anthology	236
August 2010	Sympathy for the Devil	Night Shade Books	Anthology
2011	Bedtime Stories	Knopf Borzoi	Anthology	117
August 2011	M Is for Monster: A Modern Bestiary of Classic Monsters	Fall River Press	Anthology	174
November 2011	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Terrifying Tales	Fall River Press	Collection	196
October 2012	The Body Snatcher and Other Tales	Dover Publications	Collection
November 2012	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Penguin Books	Collection
August 2013	The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature	Tachyon Publications	Anthology	332
June 2014	Island Nights' Entertainments	Routledge	Collection
July 2014	Cursed Curiosities	Barbwire Butterfly / Horrified Press	Anthology	210
March 2015	Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday	Mariner Books	Anthology	461
September 2015	Chilling Ghost Short Stories	Flame Tree Publishing	Anthology	395
September 2016	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories	Sterling Publishing	Collection	137
September 2016	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories	Alma Classics	Collection	137
September 2016	Classic Tales of Horror	Arcturus Publishing	Anthology	\|6
November 2016	Chilling Ghost Short Stories	Flame Tree Publishing	Anthology	\|395
October 2017	Classic Tales of Horror	Arcturus Publishing	Anthology
November 2017	The Classic Horror Collection	Arcturus Publishing	Anthology	\|21
March 2018	The Classic Horror Collection	Arcturus Publishing	Anthology	\|21
May 2018	The Classic Horror Collection	Sirius / Arcturus Publishing	Anthology	\|21
June 2021	Shadows Against the Dark: Collected Tales of Horror / The Turn of the Screw	CSRC Storytelling	Omnibus	121\|7
June 2023	Horror Historia Violet	CSRC Storytelling	Anthology	305
August 2023	Robert Louis Stevenson Collection	Flame Tree Press	Omnibus	459
December 2025	Supernatural Tales	Alma Books	Omnibus	\|5