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The Comforts of Home

Flannery O'Connor

First published June 1967
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Thomas objects strongly when his mother takes an interest in Sarah, a young woman embroiled in petty crime and drunkenness, first helping her financially then inviting her to stay with them. The conflict between Thomas and Sarah escalates violently.

First published in The Kenyon Review, Fall 1960.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1967 Cover Everything That Rises Must Converge Signet / New American Library Collection 111
September 1973 Cover Trial and Terror Houghton Mifflin Anthology 325
1975 Cover Trial and Terror Hamish Hamilton Anthology
1975 Trial and Terror Book Club Associates Anthology 325
September 1977 Cover The Best Horror Stories Hamlyn Anthology 496
1984 Cover The Best Horror Stories Hamlyn Anthology 496
April 1990 Cover The Best Horror Stories (abridged) Mallard Press Anthology 287
September 1990 Cover The Best Horror Stories (abridged) Ivy Leaf Anthology 287
2017 Cover The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2017 Centipede Press MAGAZINE 347