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A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

Graham Greene

First published February 1949
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A gruesome bloody murder has been committed. A man is accosted by a blood soaked man in a darkened movie theater. He thinks it may be the murderer but the murderer has been apprehended while the body of the victim is missing from the scene of the crime.

Complete Short Stories lists the date of the story as 1939. A rewritten version of "All But Empty" (1947).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
February 1949 Nineteen Stories The Viking Press Collection
1954 Cover Twenty-One Stories William Heinemann Collection 161
July 1955 Cover Nineteen Stories Lion Library Collection 130
1957 Cover Upon the Midnight: An Anthology of Ghost and Horror Stories Macdonald Anthology 105
1962 Cover More Horror Stories Paul Elek Anthology 105
1965 Cover The Second Arrow Book of Horror Stories Arrow Books Anthology 105
1965 Cover A Chamber of Horrors Little, Brown Anthology 205
1965 Cover Les chefs-d'œuvre du crime Planète Anthology 265
October 1965 Cover A Chamber of Horrors Studio Vista Anthology 205
1967 Cover A Chamber of Horrors Fontana Anthology
1967 Cover A Chamber of Horrors Fontana Anthology
December 1970 A Chamber of Horrors Fontana Anthology 195
1972 Cover London Tales of Terror Fontana Anthology 89
1973 Cover Twenty-One Stories Penguin Books Collection 133
May 1975 Cover London Tales of Terror Fontana Anthology
February 1977 Cover Détours dans les ténèbres Casterman Anthology 81
April 1977 Cover Horror 24 storie di incubi e paure Mondadori Anthology 245
September 1977 Cover The Best Horror Stories Hamlyn Anthology 338
1979 Cover Gespenstergeschichten aus London Fischer Taschenbuch Anthology
June 1979 Cover Mysterious Visions St. Martin's Press Anthology 67
1980 Cover Mysterious Visions Robert Hale Anthology
February 1981 Cover Twenty-One Stories Penguin Books Collection
1982 Cover Huivering wekken: 26 onthutsende verhalen Loeb Anthology 218
1982 Cover Spannende science fiction Loeb Anthology 73
1983 Cover Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature Picador Anthology 198
1984 Cover The Best Horror Stories Hamlyn Anthology 338
April 1984 Cover Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature Clarkson N. Potter Anthology 198
September 1989 Cover Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by 20th Century Masters Carroll & Graf Anthology 11
April 1990 Cover The Best Horror Stories (abridged) Mallard Press Anthology 217
September 1990 Cover The Best Horror Stories (abridged) Ivy Leaf Anthology 217
November 1990 Cover The Omnibus of 20th-Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology
October 1991 Cover The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories Atlantic Monthly Press Anthology 336
November 1991 Cover The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 11
March 1992 Cover The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology
September 1992 Cover The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories Atlantic Monthly Press Anthology 336
September 1993 Cover The Mists from Beyond Roc Anthology 110
September 1995 Cover The Mists from Beyond Roc Anthology 115
1996 Cover London After Midnight: A Tour of Its Criminal Haunts Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 105
January 1996 London After Midnight: A Conducted Tour Little, Brown Anthology 105
October 1996 The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology
1997 Cover Great Ghost Stories Reader's Digest Anthology 232
October 2010 Cover Twenty-One Stories Vintage Digital Collection
October 2018 Cover Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End The British Library Anthology 203