First published in the magazine The Listener, 6 November 1941.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 |
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The Demon Lover and Other Stories | Jonathan Cape | Collection | 80 |
| 1946 |
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Ivy Gripped the Steps and Other Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 95 |
| February 1946 |
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Argosy, February 1946 | The Amalgamated Press | MAGAZINE | 19 |
| 1952 |
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The Demon Lover and Other Stories | Jonathan Cape | Collection | 91 |
| March 1957 |
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Stories for the Dead of Night | Dell | Anthology | 140 |
| 1959 |
|
Stories by Elizabeth Bowen | Vintage Books | Collection | |5 |
| 1960 |
|
Masters and Masterpieces of the Short Story: Second Series | Holt-Dryden Books / Henry Holt | Anthology | 58 |
| 1965 |
|
A Day in the Dark and Other Stories | Jonathan Cape | Collection | 218 |
| 1965 |
|
Englische Gespenstergeschichten | Fischer Bücherei | Anthology | |
| August 1965 |
|
Owls' Watch | Fawcett Crest | Anthology | 169 |
| 1966 |
|
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 83 |
| 1966 |
|
The Demon Lover and Other Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| 1966 |
|
The Cold Embrace and Other Stories | Corgi | Anthology | 32 |
| April 1967 |
|
Stories for the Dead of Night | Dell Laurel-Leaf | Anthology | 116 |
| August 1967 |
|
Speak of the Devil | Dell | Anthology | 166 |
| September 1967 |
|
More Stories Strange and Sinister | Panther | Anthology | 62 |
| April 1968 |
|
Speak of the Devil | Dell | Anthology | 166 |
| April 1969 |
|
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 83 |
| August 1970 |
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The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 83 |
| September 1971 |
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The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Beagle Books | Anthology | 83 |
| 1972 |
|
London Tales of Terror | Fontana | Anthology | 170 |
| May 1973 |
|
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 83 |
| 1974 |
|
Literature of the Supernatural | McDougal, Littell & Co. | Anthology | 120 |
| 1974 |
|
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 83 |
| 1975 | Literature of the Supernatural | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Anthology | 104 | |
| May 1975 |
|
London Tales of Terror | Fontana | Anthology | |
| June 1976 |
|
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 83 |
| 1979 |
|
Twice-Told Tales: An Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 355 |
| 1979 |
|
Gespenstergeschichten aus London | Fischer Taschenbuch | Anthology | |
| 1980 | The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Jonathan Cape | Collection | 661 | |
| 1981 | The Oxford Book of Short Stories | Book Club Associates | Anthology | 346 | |
| 1981 | The Oxford Book of Short Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 346 | |
| February 1981 | The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | |14 | |
| September 1981 |
|
Mysterious, Menacing & Macabre | Elsevier / Nelson Books | Anthology | 65 |
| October 1981 | Mysterious, Menacing & Macabre | J. M. Dent & Sons | Anthology | 65 | |
| January 1982 | The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Vintage Books | Collection | |14 | |
| 1983 | The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Penguin Books | Collection | |14 | |
| 1983 |
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Ghost Stories | Hamish Hamilton | Anthology | 31 |
| 1985 |
|
Realms of Darkness | Octopus Books | Anthology | 101 |
| 1985 |
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Realms of Darkness | Octopus Books | Anthology | 101 |
| October 1986 |
|
Entre chien et loup: anthologie de la peur | Maren Sell | Anthology | 39 |
| 1987 |
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Das GeisterHausBuch: Band 1 | Otto Maier | Anthology | 130 |
| February 1987 |
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Mysterious Motoring Stories | W. H. Allen | Anthology | 59 |
| November 1987 |
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Duel and Other Horror Stories of the Road | Star | Anthology | 59 |
| 1988 |
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Realms of Darkness | Chartwell Books | Anthology | 101 |
| 1989 |
|
Fictions: Second Edition | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Anthology | 118 |
| 1989 |
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The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 100 |
| March 1989 | The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 100 | |
| April 1989 |
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Anthologie de la peur: Entre chien et loup | Seuil | Anthology | 37 |
| September 1989 |
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Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by 20th Century Masters | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 4 |
| November 1990 |
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The Omnibus of 20th-Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | |
| November 1991 |
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The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Carroll & Graf | Anthology | 4 |
| March 1992 |
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The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | |
| October 1994 |
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The Norton Book of Ghost Stories | W. W. Norton & Company | Anthology | 280 |
| November 1994 | The Norton Book of Ghost Stories | W. W. Norton / BOMC | Anthology | 280 | |
| May 1995 |
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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | Viking UK | Anthology | 1 |
| October 1995 |
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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | Viking | Anthology | 1 |
| 1996 | The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Barnes & Noble Books | Collection | |14 | |
| August 1996 |
|
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | Penguin Books | Anthology | 1 |
| October 1996 | The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories | Robinson | Anthology | ||
| June 1999 |
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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Vintage (UK) | Collection | |14 |
| October 2001 |
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Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny | David R. Godine | Anthology | 82 |
| August 2006 |
|
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Anchor Books | Collection | 661 |
| June 2019 |
|
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Anchor Books | Collection | |661 |
| August 2020 |
|
Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City | The British Library | Anthology | 81 |