An Invitation to the Hunt

First published	1963
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Short Story

A man from the lower echelons of the business world is surprised to receive an invitation to hunt with his betters. Although he doesn't like the idea, he accepts for the sake of rising in the world. But on the day of the hunt he finds out what he's really expected to do.

Borderline speculative: set in the real world except for the nature of the blood sports the rich indulge in. First published in the San Francisco Review March 1960.

Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
1963	When Evil Wakes	Souvenir Press	Anthology	99
1963	When Evil Wakes	Souvenir Press & Wehman Bros.	Anthology	99
October 1963	Stories My Mother Never Told Me	Random House	Anthology	149
1965	When Evil Wakes	Corgi	Anthology	78
March 1965	Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me	Dell	Anthology	115
June 1965	Histoires à faire peur	Robert Laffont	Anthology	203
1966	Stories My Mother Never Told Me, Part I	Pan Books	Anthology
July 1971	When Evil Wakes	Corgi	Anthology
October 1972	Histoires à faire peur	Le Livre de Poche	Anthology	205
1976	Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories My Mother Never Told Me	Dell	Anthology	115
1977	When Evil Wakes	Sphere	Anthology	89
November 1982	Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror	Reader's Digest Association	Anthology	495
1983	Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature	Picador	Anthology	940
April 1984	Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature	Clarkson N. Potter	Anthology	940
1985	Realms of Darkness	Octopus Books	Anthology	403
1985	Realms of Darkness	Octopus Books	Anthology	403
September 1985	Histoires à faire peur	Le Livre de Poche	Anthology	205
1988	Realms of Darkness	Chartwell Books	Anthology	403

An Invitation to the Hunt

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