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The Enormous Radio

John Cheever

First published May 1947
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A young couple... have just purchased a large new standalone radio for their house. While they had hoped to use their radio to listen to Mozart or other essential classical composers, they instead discover that it has the ability to tune not into radio stations, but into the rooms of other people that live in their apartment complex. -- from a review

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1947 The New Yorker, May 17, 1947 MAGAZINE
September 1952 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 210
1953 Cover The Enormous Radio and Other Stories Funk & Wagnalls Collection
April 1958 Cover The Enormous Radio and Other Stories Berkley Books Collection 180
December 1961 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
January 1962 Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology
1966 Cover De verschrikkelijke buiksprekerspop Bruna Anthology 7
March 1967 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
January 1968 Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
September 1968 Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
November 1968 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
August 1970 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
March 1971 Cover The Light Fantastic Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 165
October 1971 Cover The Light Fantastic: Science Fiction Classics from the Mainstream Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 165
May 1972 Cover The Light Fantastic Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 165
August 1972 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
1974 Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
September 1976 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
August 1977 Cover Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow Bantam Books Anthology 179
1982 Cover Huivering wekken: 26 onthutsende verhalen Loeb Anthology 319
July 1982 Cover The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories Arbor House Anthology 102
July 1982 The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology
July 1982 The Stories of John Cheever Ballantine Books Collection 37
June 1984 Cover Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology Longman Anthology 313
December 1986 Look Who's Talking: An Anthology of Voices in the Modern American Short Story Washington Square Press Anthology 183
December 1996 Cover American Gothic Tales Plume / Penguin Anthology 253
1997 American Gothic Tales Plume / Penguin / BCE Anthology 253
2013 Cover McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Winter 2013 McSweeney's Books MAGAZINE 289
February 2013 Cover American Short Story Masterpieces Dover Publications Anthology 230