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The Place of the Gods

Stephen Vincent Benét

First published July 1937
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

First published as "The Place of the Gods" in The Saturday Evening Post, 31 July 1937.
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Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1937 Cover The Saturday Evening Post, July 31, 1937 The Curtis Publishing Company MAGAZINE
October 1937 Cover Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds Farrar & Rinehart Collection 3
February 1938 Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds William Heinemann Collection |1
1939 Thirteen O'Clock William Heinemann Collection
1942 Cover Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét Farrar & Rinehart Collection 471|2471
June 1942 Cover Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét: Volume Two, Prose Farrar & Rinehart Collection 471
1943 Cover The Short Stories of Stephen Vincent Benét - A Selection Editions for the Armed Services Collection
1943 Cover Twenty-Five Short Stories Sun Dial Press Collection
March 1943 Cover The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction Pocket Books Anthology 1
June 1943 The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction Pocket Books Anthology 1
August 1943 Cover The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction Pocket Books Anthology 1
1946 Cover Avon Ghost Reader Avon Book Co. Anthology 237
December 1946 Cover The Stephen Vincent Benét Pocket Book Pocket Books Collection 178
1947 Cover Selected Stories Maurice Fridberg Collection
April 1947 Cover The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction Pocket Books Anthology 1
1959 Cover The Armchair Science Reader Simon & Schuster Anthology |13
1964 Cover The Saturday Evening Post Reader of Fantasy & Science Fiction Popular Library Anthology 84
1964 Cover The Saturday Evening Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction Souvenir Press Anthology 103
1964 Cover The Saturday Evening Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction Popular Library Anthology 84
January 1964 Cover The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction Doubleday Anthology 103
January 1964 Cover The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction Doubleday Anthology 103
1966 Cover Tomorrow's Children Doubleday Anthology 375
1966 Cover The Saturday Evening Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction Corgi Anthology 80
1966 Cover Cities of Wonder Doubleday Anthology
February 1966 Cover Cities of Wonder Doubleday Anthology 213
October 1966 Cover Tomorrow's Children Doubleday Anthology 375
April 1967 Cover Cities of Wonder Macfadden-Bartell Anthology 212
April 1967 Cover Cities of Wonder Macfadden-Bartell Anthology 212
August 1967 Cover The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Stories Archway / Washington Square Press Collection 41
1968 Cover The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages Doubleday Anthology 751
1968 Cover Designs in Fiction The Macmillan Company Anthology 114
January 1968 Cover Stories and Storytellers Addison-Wesley Anthology 257
May 1968 Cover Cities of Wonder Dennis Dobson Anthology
1969 Cover Something Strange Macmillan Anthology 183
February 1969 The Secret Sharer and Other Great Stories Mentor / New American Library Anthology 201
April 1969 The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Stories Archway / Washington Square Press Collection 41
1970 Cover Cities of Wonder Sphere Anthology 203
1971 Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds Books for Libraries Press Collection 3
March 1971 Modern Satiric Stories: The Impropriety Principle Scott, Foresman and Company Anthology 96
October 1971 Cover Cities of Wonder Macfadden-Bartell Anthology 212
January 1972 Cover Morgen, #3, 1972 De Dam MAGAZINE 12
September 1972 Cover A Spectrum of Worlds Doubleday Anthology 107
1973 Cover Science Fiction McDougal, Littell & Co. Anthology
1973 Speculations Glencoe Press Anthology
1974 Cover Tomorrow's Children Orbit Anthology 375
October 1974 Cover Histoires de fins du monde Le Livre de Poche Anthology 385
1975 Cover Science Fiction Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 147
1975 Cover Science Fiction Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 147
1976 Tomorrow's Children Compton Russell Anthology 375
1976 Cover Tomorrow's Children Orbit Anthology 375
1977 Cover Science Fiction Reader's Digest Educational Division Anthology
1977 Cover Futurescapes: Explorations in Fact and Science Fiction Methuen Anthology 82
August 1977 Cover Tomorrow's Children Orbit Anthology 375
1979 Science Fiction Littell & Co. Anthology
1979 Cover Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post The Curtis Publishing Company Anthology 103
August 1980 50 Great American Short Stories Bantam Books Anthology 249
1981 Cover Tomorrow's Children Orbit Anthology 375
1984 Cover Science Fiction McDougal, Littell & Co. Anthology 147
August 1985 Cover Histoires de fins du monde Le Livre de Poche Anthology 385
October 1985 Cover Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead Donald I. Fine Anthology 240
October 1986 Cover Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead Primus / Donald I. Fine Anthology 239
1987 Cover Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar Robinson Anthology 239
1999 Cover Read Into the Millennium: Tales of the Future Millbrook Press Anthology 147
May 2006 Cover Beyond Armageddon Bison Books Anthology 239
January 2011 By the Waters of Babylon Faded Page Chapbook
June 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |70
December 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |70
November 2014 Cover By the Waters of Babylon, and Other Fantasies and Prophecies Hythloday Press Collection 1
March 2018 Cover Endless Apocalypse Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 18
December 2022 Cover Realidades alternativas, December 2022 Editora Andarilho MAGAZINE |4
October 2025 Cover The Classic Science Fiction Collection Arcturus Publishing Anthology 880
November 2025 Cover The Classic Science Fiction Collection Sirius Anthology 880