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The Waxwork

A. M. Burrage

First published 1931
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A journalist hopes to get material for a story by staying overnight in the "Murderers' Row" section of the local wax museum.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1931 Cover Someone in the Room Jarrolds Collection 58
July 1931 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series Gollancz Anthology 621
1932 The Second Omnibus of Crime Coward-McCann Anthology
July 1932 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series Gollancz Anthology 621
January 1937 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series Gollancz Anthology 621
June 1939 The Second Omnibus of Crime: The World's Great Crime Stories Blue Ribbon Books Anthology
October 1943 Cover Tales of Terror World Publishing Co. Anthology 17
1948 Short Stories Oxford Book Co. Anthology
January 1948 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series Gollancz Anthology 621
February 1949 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series Gollancz Anthology 621
1950 Cover Short Stories for Our Times Houghton Mifflin Anthology 33
1957 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Simon & Schuster Anthology
1957 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Simon & Schuster Anthology 280
1958 Cover Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror Editorial Labor Anthology 1229
1959 Verhalen die Hitchcock koos Het Spectrum Anthology 154
April 1959 Cover 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Dell Anthology
1960 Cover Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Pan Books Anthology 285
October 1960 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Dell Anthology 116
1961 Cover Panik: Gruselgeschichten aus England und Amerika von R. L. Stevenson bis Ernest Hemingway Diogenes Anthology 371
1962 Cover Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery Random House Anthology 167
1965 Cover Englische Gespenstergeschichten Fischer Bücherei Anthology
1965 Cover Histoires abominables Le Livre de Poche Anthology 377
1967 Cover Between the Minute and the Hour: Stories of the Unseen Herbert Jenkins Collection 77
1967 Cover Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Pan Books Anthology 285
1968 Cover Één minuut voor middernacht Bruna Collection 104
1968 Cover Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery Puffin Anthology 9
1968 Die besten klassischen und modernen Gruselgeschichten von Poe bis Hemingway Diogenes Anthology 371
September 1968 Cover Dr. Caligari's Black Book W. H. Allen Anthology 88
1970 Cover The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 166
August 1971 The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology
1972 Cover Ten Tales Calculated To Give You Shudders Whitman / Western Publishing Company Anthology 34
January 1972 Cover The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Beagle Books Anthology 166
May 1974 The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 166
March 1975 Cover Histoires abominables Le Livre de Poche Anthology 377
1976 Cover Die besten klassischen und modernen Gruselgeschichten von Poe bis Hemingway Diogenes Anthology 371
August 1976 Cover Vincent Price Presents The Price of Fear Everest Books Anthology 112
December 1976 Someone in the Room Arno Press Collection 58
1977 Cover Haunts! Haunts! Haunts! Franklin Watts Anthology 73
1977 Cover Spectres, Spooks and Shuddery Shades Franklin Watts Anthology 73
September 1977 The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 166
June 1978 Cover 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Dell Anthology 116
1979 Cover Ten Tales Calculated To Give You Shudders Golden Press / Western Publishing Company Anthology 34
1979 Cover Histoires abominables Presses Pocket Anthology 195
April 1982 Cover The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 166
November 1982 Cover Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Reader's Digest Association Anthology 414
1984 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Penguin Books Anthology 277
1984 Cover Een Spelletje Met de Dood Loeb Anthology 160
1984 Cover Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery Random House Anthology 214
1985 Cover Great Ghost Stories Little Simon Anthology 141
1985 Cover Great Ghost Stories Julian Messner Anthology 141
1985 Cover The Deadly Arts Arbor House Anthology
1985 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Penguin Books Anthology 277
May 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 393
June 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 393
October 1985 The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Viking UK Anthology
October 1987 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Penguin Books Anthology 277
October 1990 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Dorset Press Anthology
1991 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Bloomsbury Anthology
December 1991 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Macdonald Anthology
1992 Cover Чёрный нимб и другие истории, исполненные неизъяснимого ужаса Донбас / Поиск Anthology 114
October 1992 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Warner Books UK Anthology
October 1995 Cover Horror Stories Penguin Audio Anthology
November 1997 Cover Someone in the Room: Strange Tales Old and New Ash-Tree Press Collection 171
1998 Cover Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 167
2002 Cover Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Amereon House Anthology 280
August 2005 Cover The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (Revised + expanded) Robinson Anthology 627
August 2005 Cover The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (Revised + expanded) Carroll & Graf Anthology 627
July 2011 Cover The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories Robinson Anthology
December 2013 Cover The Waxwork & Other Stories Burrage Publishing Collection
April 2015 Cover Dreamscapes Into Darkness Firbolg Publishing Anthology |11
April 2015 Cover Dreamscapes Into Darkness Firbolg Publishing Anthology
2022 Cover The Little Blue Flames and Other Uncanny Tales The British Library Collection 1
May 2022 Cover Nightmare Abbey, Summer 2022 Dead Letter Press MAGAZINE 88