Afterward

First published	October 1910
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

An American couple move into an English house rumored to be haunted by a ghost which can only be recognized as such in retrospect.

First published in The Century, January 1910.

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Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
October 1910	Tales of Men and Ghosts	Charles Scribner's Sons	Collection	321
April 1931	They Walk Again: An Anthology of Ghost Stories	Faber and Faber	Anthology	100
1932	More Great Ghost Stories	Herbert Jenkins	Anthology	319
September 1932	The Ghost Book; or, They Walk Again	Faber and Faber	Anthology	100
October 1934	The Ghost Book; or, They Walk Again	Faber and Faber	Anthology	100
1935	50 Years of Ghost Stories	Hutchinson	Anthology	287
1936	A Century of Ghost Stories	Hutchinson	Anthology	287
1937	Ghosts	D. Appleton-Century Company	Collection	67
1937	The Haunted Omnibus	Farrar & Rinehart	Anthology	815
1937	The Haunted Omnibus	Oxford	Anthology	815
1937	The Haunted Omnibus	Cassell	Anthology	815
October 1937	The Ghost Book; or, They Walk Again	Faber and Faber	Anthology	100
1939	Great Ghost Stories of the World: The Haunted Omnibus	Garden City Publishing Co.	Anthology	815
1939	Narraciones Terroríficas, No 5	Editorial Molino	MAGAZINE	18
March 1942	The Midnight Reader	Henry Holt & Co.	Anthology	331
July 1942	They Walk Again: An Anthology of Ghost Stories	E. P. Dutton	Anthology	100
1944	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Modern Library	Anthology	560
1947	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Hammond, Hammond & Co.	Anthology	444
1947	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Modern Library	Anthology	560
October 1947	The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories	Pocket Books	Anthology	363
1957	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Hammond, Hammond & Co.	Anthology	444
1958	Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror	Editorial Labor	Anthology	615
1962	Great Ghost Stories	Washington Square Press	Anthology	290
July 1962	Great Ghost Stories	Washington Square Press	Anthology	290
1966	The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	Fontana	Anthology	222
April 1969	The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	Fontana	Anthology	222
1970	Walk in Dread	Hutchinson	Anthology	102
August 1970	The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	Fontana	Anthology	222
1971	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Hammond, Hammond & Co.	Anthology	444
September 1971	The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	Beagle Books	Anthology	222
1972	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Hammond, Hammond & Co.	Anthology	444
April 1972	Ghouls and Ghosts	W. H. Allen	Anthology	259
November 1972	The Other Dimension	Scholastic Book Services	Anthology	263
1973	The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton	Charles Scribner's Sons	Collection	\|3
February 1973	The Other Dimension	Scholastic Book Services	Anthology	263
May 1973	The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	Fontana	Anthology	222
1974	The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	Fontana	Anthology	222
1975	Uncanny Tales 3	Sphere	Anthology	130
1975	13 Geister-Stories	Heyne	Anthology	84
June 1976	The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	Fontana	Anthology	222
September 1976	The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton	Popular Library	Collection	63
1977	Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories	J. M. Dent	Anthology	177
1977	Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories	J. M. Dent	Anthology	177
1977	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Book Club Associates	Anthology	444
1980	Famous Ghost Stories	Watermill Press	Anthology	83
February 1980	Storie di fantasmi	Bompiani	Collection	61
1982	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Hutchinson	Anthology	444
October 1983	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Jonathan Cape	Anthology	179
October 1983	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Anthology	179
October 1984	The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology	347
October 1984	Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women	Macmillan	Anthology	64
November 1984	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Anthology	179
1985	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology	189
1985	The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology	347
April 1985	The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton	Charles Scribner's Sons	Collection
May 1987	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	ISIS Large Print Books	Anthology	232
October 1987	The Dark Descent	Tor	Anthology	887
October 1987	The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology	347
1988	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Anthology	179
August 1988	The Dark Descent	Tor / BOMC	Anthology	887
December 1988	Anthology of Fear	Marshall Cavendish Partworks	Anthology	336
1989	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Anthology	179
September 1989	Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by 20th Century Masters	Carroll & Graf	Anthology	325
November 1990	The Omnibus of 20th-Century Ghost Stories	Robinson	Anthology
1991	The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories	Bloomsbury	Anthology
January 1991	Gespenstergeschichten	Suhrkamp	Collection	60
March 1991	Back from the Dead	DAW Books	Anthology	331
September 1991	A Fabulous Formless Darkness	HarperCollins (UK)	Anthology	288
September 1991	A Fabulous Formless Darkness	HarperCollins (UK)	Anthology	288
October 1991	The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2	Virago	Anthology	211
November 1991	The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories	Carroll & Graf	Anthology	325
1992	A Fabulous Formless Darkness	Grafton	Anthology	482
1992	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	The Noonday Press	Anthology	179
January 1992	A Fabulous Formless Darkness	Tor	Anthology	399
March 1992	The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories	Robinson	Anthology
November 1992	Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers	Carroll & Graf	Anthology	211
January 1993	Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers	Carroll & Graf / BOMC	Anthology	211
September 1993	The Mists from Beyond	Roc	Anthology	50
October 1993	Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers	Carroll & Graf / QPBC	Anthology	211
1994	The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2	Virago	Anthology	211
1994	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Modern Library	Anthology	536
August 1994	Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers	Carroll & Graf	Anthology	211
August 1994	The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2	Virago	Anthology	211
October 1994	Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Bracken Books	Anthology	328
October 1994	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Modern Library	Anthology	536
August 1995	The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume Two	Project Gutenberg	Collection
September 1995	The Mists from Beyond	Roc	Anthology	53
1996	Tales of Terror and the Supernatural: A Classic Collection	Leopard	Anthology	328
January 1996	The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton	Virago	Collection	47
June 1996	The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural	Peter Owen	Collection	74
September 1996	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	The Noonday Press	Anthology
September 1996	Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers	Barnes & Noble Books	Anthology
October 1996	The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories	Robinson	Anthology
December 1996	American Gothic Tales	Plume / Penguin	Anthology	129
1997	American Gothic Tales	Plume / Penguin / BCE	Anthology	129
February 1997	The Dark Descent	Tor	Anthology	887
October 1997	The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton	Scribner Paperback Fiction	Collection	58
1998	The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library	Modern Library	Anthology	135
February 2002	Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters	Harper Perennial	Anthology	158
March 2002	Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters	Harper Perennial / SFBC	Anthology	158
May 2002	The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural	Peter Owen	Collection	74
May 2003	Storie di fantasmi	Bompiani	Collection	61
October 2003	Tales of Men and Ghosts	Project Gutenberg	Collection
April 2005	Tales of Men and Ghosts	Wildside Press	Collection
September 2007	Classic Tales of Horror: Volume Two	Bloody Books	Anthology	146
January 2008	The Triumph of Night and Other Tales	Tartarus Press	Collection	65
2009	American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps	The Library of America	Anthology	386
January 2009	The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton	Wordsworth Editions	Collection	40
November 2009	The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton	Scribner	Collection	\|58
January 2010	Tales of Men and Ghosts	ValdeBooks	Collection	174
February 2010	The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce	Penguin Books	Anthology	333
2011	The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories	Fall River Press	Anthology	304
February 2012	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Penguin Books	Anthology
September 2012	The Big Book of Ghost Stories	Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books	Anthology	539
October 2012	The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women	Robinson	Anthology
December 2012	The Big Book of Ghost Stories	Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books	Anthology	\|539
January 2013	The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women	Running Press	Anthology	426
April 2013	Tales of Men and Ghosts	CreateSpace	Collection
July 2013	Tales of Men and Ghosts	LibriVox	Collection	\|10
March 2015	Tales to Terrify, No. 165	District of Wonders	MAGAZINE
August 2015	Chilling Horror	Flame Tree Publishing	Anthology	436
2016	Afterward	Biblioasis	Chapbook
October 2016	The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories	British Library Publishing	Anthology	11
November 2016	Chilling Horror	Flame Tree Publishing	Anthology	\|436
June 2017	HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 1	HorrorBabble	Anthology	\|8
June 2017	HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 1	HorrorBabble	Anthology	\|8
August 2019	Inhabited: Classic Haunted House Stories	Warbler Classics	Anthology	246
August 2019	Inhabited: Classic Haunted House Stories	Warbler Classics	Anthology	\|246
October 2019	A House A-Haunt: Classic Stories of Haunted Houses, Horrific Rooms, and Other Ghastly Abodes	Coachwhip Publications	Anthology
2020	There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man	Strange Attractor Press	Anthology	317
June 2020	The Big Book of Ghost Stories	Highbridge / Recorded Books	Anthology	\|539
October 2021	Ghosts	New York Review of Books	Collection	45
October 2021	Ghosts	New York Review of Books	Collection	\|67
February 2022	Depois	Editora Wish	Chapbook
December 2025	Mothers of Horror	Hemelein Publications	Anthology	\|19

Afterward

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