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Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Conrad Aiken

First published 1934
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A 12 year old boy's perceptions become further and further distanced from reality, which he sees as being insulated audibly and visually by an ever deepening snowfall.

First published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, October 1932. No real SF content, other than the boy's perceptions.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1934 Cover Among the Lost People Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 128
1939 Cover Tellers of Tales: 100 Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany Doubleday, Doran Anthology 1131
1939 Cover The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories Random House Anthology 959
1944 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 136
1947 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 121
1947 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 136
1957 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 121
1958 Cover Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror Editorial Labor Anthology 964
1960 The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken World Publishing Co. Collection
1961 Cover A Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories Washington Square Press Anthology 141
October 1964 Cover The Masque of the Red Death Panther Anthology 126
October 1964 Cover The Masque of the Red Death Anthony Gibbs & Phillips Anthology 126
1969 Cover Mind at Bay Panther Anthology 71
February 1969 The Secret Sharer and Other Great Stories Mentor / New American Library Anthology 125
1971 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 121
1972 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 121
April 1974 Cover Die Angst hat tausend Namen Pabel Anthology 85
1977 Cover Nighttouch St. Martin's Press Anthology 100
1977 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Book Club Associates Anthology 121
1977 Nighttouch General Publishing Anthology 100
July 1977 Cover Deadly Nightshade: Strange Tales of the Dark Gollancz Anthology 153
June 1978 Cover Deadly Nightshade: Strange Tales of the Dark Taplinger Anthology 153
August 1980 50 Great American Short Stories Bantam Books Anthology 232
1982 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hutchinson Anthology 121
December 1986 Look Who's Talking: An Anthology of Voices in the Modern American Short Story Washington Square Press Anthology 155
1994 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 132
1994 Cover The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow State Street Press Anthology 583
1994 Cover The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow Galahad Books Anthology 583
October 1994 Cover Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Bracken Books Anthology 82
October 1994 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 132
1996 Cover Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al Viking Canada Anthology 47
1996 Cover Tales of Terror and the Supernatural: A Classic Collection Leopard Anthology 82
November 1997 Cover The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation Houghton Mifflin Anthology 614
March 2024 Cover Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird The British Library Anthology 283