First published in Wharton's collection Xingu and Other Stories(C Scribner's Sons, March 1916) and was later included in her collection of supernatural fiction, Ghosts (D Appleton-Century Company, 1937).
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1916 | Xingu and Other Stories | Charles Scribner's Sons | Collection | 151 | |
| 1924 |
|
Twenty and Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors | Thornton Butterworth | Anthology | 11 |
| 1924 |
|
Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors | D. Appleton & Company | Anthology | 1 |
| 1937 |
|
Ghosts | D. Appleton-Century Company | Collection | 147 |
| 1946 |
|
Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror and Fantasy | Whittlesey House | Anthology | 733 |
| 1971 | Some Things Fierce and Fatal | Harper & Row | Anthology | 151 | |
| 1972 |
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Some Things Fierce and Fatal | The Bodley Head | Anthology | |
| 1973 |
|
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Charles Scribner's Sons | Collection | |4 |
| 1974 |
|
Baleful Beasts: Great Supernatural Stories of the Animal Kingdom | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Anthology | 36 |
| 1974 |
|
Baleful Beasts: Great Supernatural Stories of the Animal Kingdom | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Anthology | 36 |
| 1976 |
|
Some Things Fierce and Fatal | Coronet | Anthology | 139 |
| September 1976 |
|
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Popular Library | Collection | 99 |
| February 1980 |
|
Storie di fantasmi | Bompiani | Collection | 95 |
| 1982 |
|
Some Things Fierce and Fatal | Avon Flare | Anthology | 112 |
| April 1985 |
|
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Charles Scribner's Sons | Collection | |
| January 1991 |
|
Gespenstergeschichten | Suhrkamp | Collection | 95 |
| December 1992 |
|
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II | Xanadu | Anthology | 402 |
| February 1993 |
|
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 402 |
| April 1994 |
|
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 402 |
| May 1995 |
|
The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women | Penguin Books | Anthology | 407 |
| July 1995 | The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 1 | Project Gutenberg | Collection | ||
| August 1995 |
|
Bodies of the Dead and Other Great American Ghost Stories | Tor | Anthology | 1 |
| January 1996 |
|
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Virago | Collection | 77 |
| July 1997 |
|
Bodies of the Dead and Other Great American Ghost Stories | Tor | Anthology | 1 |
| October 1997 |
|
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Scribner Paperback Fiction | Collection | 92 |
| October 1999 |
|
The New Roger Caras Treasury of Great Dog Stories | Bristol Park Books | Anthology | 75 |
| May 2003 |
|
Storie di fantasmi | Bompiani | Collection | 95 |
| March 2007 |
|
The Demanding Dead: More Stories of Terror and the Supernatural | Peter Owen | Collection | 61 |
| 2008 |
|
Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers | Dover Publications | Anthology | 20 |
| January 2008 |
|
The Triumph of Night and Other Tales | Tartarus Press | Collection | 136 |
| January 2009 |
|
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 68 |
| September 2009 |
|
Xingu and Other Stories | Read Books | Collection | 161 |
| November 2009 |
|
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Scribner | Collection | |92 |
| March 2011 |
|
PD Goth | LibriVox | Anthology | |4 |
| January 2013 |
|
The Second Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Ghost Stories | Wildside Press | Anthology | 469 |
| July 2013 |
|
The Dog Megapack: 25 Curly Canine Tales, Old and New | Borgo Press / Wildside Press | Anthology | 106 |
| August 2014 |
|
Xingu and Other Stories | Blatter Press | Collection | 161 |
| April 2017 |
|
Classic Horror Tales | Canterbury Classics | Anthology | |3 |
| July 2019 |
|
American Gothic Short Stories | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | |
| October 2019 |
|
Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 | Handheld Press | Anthology | |10 |
| October 2021 |
|
Ghosts | New York Review of Books | Collection | 99 |
| October 2021 |
|
Ghosts | New York Review of Books | Collection | |147 |
| October 2024 |
|
Weird Fiction | Penguin Books | Anthology | 90 |