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A Recluse

Walter de la Mare

First published 1926
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

A traveller finds himself the guest for a night of a recluse. When he leaves the next morning the suggestion is that the recluse is dead. -- from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://tartaruspress.com/d8.htm">A Guide to Supernatural Fiction</a>

Publications (14)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1926 Cover The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny Hutchinson Anthology 189
1927 Cover The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 195
September 1930 Cover On the Edge Faber and Faber Collection 1
1934 Cover A Century of Creepy Stories Hutchinson Anthology 237
1936 Cover Uncanny Stories Thomas Nelson & Sons Anthology
1945 The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny Hutchinson Anthology
1970 Cover The Ghost Book: Sixteen Stories of the Uncanny Pan Books Anthology 164
1971 A Century of Creepy Stories Books for Libraries Press Anthology 237
October 1971 Cover The Ghost Book Beagle Books / Ballantine Anthology
July 2001 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection 3
June 2007 Cover Strangers and Pilgrims Tartarus Press Collection 286
July 2012 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection
April 2017 Cover Out of the Deep and Other Supernatural Tales British Library Publishing Collection 215
2022 Cover Strangers and Pilgrims Tartarus Press Collection 286