In his introduction, de la Mare wrote as follows: “Most of (the stories) have passed through changes – seldom rich, alas, but occasionally strange. Some of them are middle-aged. And, worse, may only too clearly look it. Most have been revised repeatedly; while some were born all but spick and span, only a springtime or so ago. One of them, cut down by half, actually came into being when Queen Victoria was still on the throne. Some of them, finally, in a different shape, have been “on the air”, and many have been serialized …’ See also the Introduction on page vii and Unpublished Stories on pages 515, 533, 538 and 551.
‘Odd Shop’
(a) Listener, 31 March 1937 (where it was called ‘Odd Shop: A Dialogue for Broadcasting’)
‘Music’
(a) Adelphi, April-June 1952 (where it was called ‘Music from the Sea’)
‘The Stranger’
(a) London Magazine, September 1954 (where it was called ‘The Stranger: A Dialogue’)
‘Neighbours’
‘The Princess’ (two notes on the TS read ‘13.3.37’ (the day on which it was broadcast by the BBC) and ‘revised again Jan. 1954’)
(a) Good Housekeeping, October 1952
‘The Guardian’
(a) John O’London’s Weekly, 10 June 1938
The Best British Stories of 1939, ed.
Edward O’Brien (Boston, 1939)
Second Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith (1952.)
‘The Face’
(a) World Review, December 1950
‘The Cartouche’
(a) Encounter, December 1954
‘The Picture’
(a) Argosy, February 1955
‘The Quincunx’
(a) Lady’s Realm, December 1906
(b) GS (1956)
‘An Anniversary’ (originally written in or before 1945)
(a) Saturday Book, No. 12 (1952)
(b) GS (1956)
‘Bad Company’
(a) Listener, 1 April 1954
(b) GS (1956)
‘A Beginning’ (originally written in about 1900)
Walter de la Mare: Ghost Stories (GS) (1956)
A Folio Society selection of seven de la Mare ghost stories, edited by Kenneth Hopkins and with lithographs by Barnett Freedman. It included ‘Out of the Deep’ from R (1923), ‘The Green Room’ from OE (1930), ‘The House’ and ‘A Revenant’ from WBO (1936), and ‘The Quincunx’, ‘An Anniversary’ and ‘Bad Company’ from Beg (1955).
Eight Tales (1971)
This was a selection of eight very early de la Mare stories, all of them serialized (except possibly ‘A:B:O.’) but none later collected, that Edward Wagenknecht embarked on in about 1952 with de la Mare’s approval. They were ‘Kismet’ (1895), ‘The Hangman Luck’ (1895), ‘A Mote’ (1896), ‘The Village of Old Age’ (1896), ‘The Moon’s Miracle’ (1897), ‘The Giant’ (1901), ‘De Mortuis’ (1901) and ‘A:B:O.’ (dated 1896 or earlier according to Theresa Whistler). Wagenknecht wrote an introduction and the volume was published by Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. See also the CT (1950) entry and the Uncollected Stories sections in Short Stories 1895–1926 and in this volume.
The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories (1988)
A new selection of eight children’s stories, published in the Puffin Classics series. It had six stories from Br (1925), ‘The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire’, ‘Alice’s Godmother’, ‘The Dutch Cheese’, ‘Broomsticks’, ‘Miss Jemima’ and ‘The Lovely Myfanwy’; one from LF (1933), ‘The Lord Fish’; and one from R (1923), ‘The Riddle’. It was different from the volumes published in 1931 and 1946.
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