The Minister's Black Veil
| First published | 1842 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
First published (as by "the author of Sights from a Steeple") in The Token, 1836.
Although this story is not outright supernatural, it is vaguely fantastic, and onlookers in the story believe there to be a sort of ghostly relationship between the minister and a woman who died the day he began wearing the veil.
Although this story is not outright supernatural, it is vaguely fantastic, and onlookers in the story believe there to be a sort of ghostly relationship between the minister and a woman who died the day he began wearing the veil.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1842 | Twice-Told Tales | James Munroe | Collection | |4 | |
| 1897 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Maynard, Merrill, & Co. | Collection | |2 |
| 1907 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 52 |
| 1927 | American Mystery Stories | Oxford University Press, USA | Anthology | 21 | |
| 1950 | Selected Tales and Sketches | Rinehart | Collection | |12 | |
| 1960 |
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The Minister's Black Veil / Young Goodman Brown | Caedmon | Collection | |1 |
| 1962 |
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Hawthorne's Short Stories | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Collection | |3 |
| 1963 |
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The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories | Signet / New American Library | Collection | |
| 1968 |
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The Birthmark and Other Stories | Scholastic Book Services | Collection | |
| 1968 |
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The Birthmark and Other Stories | Scholastic Book Services | Collection | |
| August 1995 |
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Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 73 |
| September 1998 |
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Haunting Tales | Apple / Scholastic | Collection | 37 |
| May 1999 |
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories | Könemann | Collection | 147 |
| October 2004 | Twice-Told Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 33 | |
| October 2008 | The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural | Tartarus Press | Collection | 83 | |
| 2010 |
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The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology | Bottletree Books | Anthology | |
| August 2010 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Gray Rabbit Publications | Collection | 25 |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| June 2012 |
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Twice-Told Tales | ReadHowYouWant | Collection | 54 |
| August 2012 |
|
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 17 | LibriVox | Anthology | |14 |
| July 2017 |
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HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 2 | HorrorBabble | Anthology | |6 |
| September 2017 |
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HorrorBabble's Classic Horror: Volume 2 | HorrorBabble | Anthology | |6 |
| July 2019 |
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American Gothic Short Stories | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology |