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A Pair of Hands

Arthur Quiller-Couch

First published 1900
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A woman rents a house and finds it is haunted by the ghost of a child, who is, however, friendly.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1900 Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Cassell & Company Collection 65
1921 Selected Stories J. M. Dent & Sons Collection 58
1934 Cover The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories Hutchinson Anthology 575
September 1934 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Third Series Gollancz Anthology
September 1934 Cover Tales of the Uncanny, September 1934 World's Work MAGAZINE 68
1935 Cover A Century of Thrillers: Second Series Daily Express Publications Anthology 367
1935 The Third Omnibus of Crime Coward-McCann Anthology 691
June 1936 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Third Series Gollancz Anthology
1937 Q's Mystery Stories: Twenty Stories from the Works of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch J. M. Dent Collection 94
1937 Cover Century of Thrillers President Press Anthology 359|3359
July 1937 Cover Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery Odhams Press Anthology 687
1942 Cover The Third Omnibus of Crime Coward-McCann Anthology 691
1949 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Third Series Gollancz Anthology
1958 Cover Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror Editorial Labor Anthology 671
1962 Cover The Frankenstein Reader Ballantine Books Anthology 110
1964 Cover Spookverhalen Het Spectrum Anthology 45
1966 Cover Medley Macabre: An Anthology of Stories of the Supernatural, Being Ghosts, Psychical Phenomena, Uncanny Mysteries Hammond, Hammond and Company Anthology 222
October 1966 Cover Thin Air: An Anthology of Ghost Stories Blackie Anthology 341
1967 The Armada Ghost Book Armada Anthology 142
1967 Thin Air: An Anthology of Ghost Stories Blackie Anthology 341
1970 Cover Thirteen Uncanny Tales J. M. Dent Anthology 137
1970 Cover The Restless Ghost: And Other Encounters and Experiences Collins Anthology 30
1971 Cover The Usurping Ghost: And Other Encounters and Experiences E. P. Dutton Anthology 30
1972 Cover Medley Macabre: An Anthology of Stories of the Supernatural, Being Ghosts, Psychical Phenomena, Uncanny Mysteries Hammond, Hammond and Company Anthology 222
1972 Cover The Restless Ghost: And Other Encounters and Experiences Collins Anthology 30
January 1972 Cover Thin Air Blackie Anthology 341
February 1973 Cover The Usurping Ghost: And Other Encounters and Experiences E. P. Dutton Anthology 30
1977 Cover Ghostly and Ghastly Beaver Books Anthology 26
1977 Cover Ghostly and Ghastly Beaver Books Anthology 26
1978 Cover 1st Armada Ghost Book Armada Anthology 142
1978 Cover Die unheimlichsten Gespenstergeschichten Tosa Anthology 40
1980 Cover Ghost Stories Octopus Books Anthology 337
1981 Cover Ghost Stories Octopus Books Anthology 337
January 1984 Cover Spooky Tales Octopus Books Anthology 259
1985 Cover Young Ghosts Harper & Row Anthology 58
1985 Cover Young Ghosts Harper & Row Anthology 58
October 1986 Cover Asimov's Ghosts Dragon Anthology 66
1987 Cover Das GeisterHausBuch: Band 1 Otto Maier Anthology 162
March 1988 Cover Ghost Stories Kingfisher Anthology 128
June 1988 Cover Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters Armada Omnibus 74
July 1991 Cover Ghost Stories Kingfisher Anthology 128
March 1993 Cover Ghost Stories Kingfisher (US) Anthology 128
September 1993 Cover Tales of the Living Dead Checkerboard Press Anthology 105
April 1997 Cover Ghost Stories Kingfisher Anthology 128
February 2000 Cover The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales Ash-Tree Press Collection 100
September 2003 Cover Ghost Stories Kingfisher (US) Anthology 128
July 2007 Cover Spinetinglers: Ghoulish Ghost Stories Kingfisher (US) Anthology 127
2013 Cover World's 25 Most Popular Ghost Stories (of the 19th Century) Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology |20
April 2015 Cover The Sixth Ghost Story Megapack Wildside Press Anthology
October 2017 Cover Classic Ghost Stories Vintage (UK) Anthology 327
January 2019 Cover Haunted House Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology
June 2025 Cover Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall The British Library Anthology 117