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The Knocker at the Portico

Basil Copper

First published 1971
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The diary of one Edward Rayner, who descends into madness and paranoia as his research is interrupted by a noise that only he can hear and his young wife Jane grows close with a certain Dr. Spiros.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1971 Cover Dark Things Arkham House Anthology 77
1972 Cover The Year's Best Horror Stories No. 2 Sphere Anthology 72
July 1974 Cover The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series II DAW Books Anthology 33
November 1978 Cover Here Be Daemons: Tales of Horror and the Uneasy Robert Hale Collection 15
December 1978 Cover Here Be Daemons: Tales of Horror and the Uneasy St. Martin's Press Collection 15
May 1981 Cover Here Be Daemons: Tales of Horror and the Uneasy Sphere Collection 9
1998 Cover 12 Gothic Tales Oxford University Press Anthology 155
March 2010 Cover Darkness, Mist and Shadow: Volume 1 PS Publishing Collection |16
April 2010 Cover Darkness, Mist & Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper PS Publishing Omnibus |16
June 2013 Cover Darkness, Mist and Shadow: Volume 1 Drugstore Indian Press Collection |16
2014 Cover Darkness, Mist and Shadow: Volume 1 Drugstore Indian Press Collection |16
March 2018 Cover Darkness, Mist and Shadow: Volume 1 PS Publishing Collection |16