Title: The Dead Smile
Title Record # 53415
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Date: 1899-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Webpages: digital-eel.com
Language: English
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Author: F. Marion Crawford
Date: 1899-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Webpages: digital-eel.com
Language: English
Note: First published in the magazine Ainslee's, August 1899.
Synopsis: An evil sick old man maintains an evil secret which destroyed his wife, and hopes that it will curse his son and his son's fiance after his death; the evil brings his wife's spirit back as a banshee, and manifests itself as a skeletal grin which infects everyone who comes in contact.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Uncanny Tales | 1911-00-00 | F. Marion Crawford | T. Fisher Unwin | 6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
307 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
Wandering Ghosts | 1911-03-00 | F. Marion Crawford | The Macmillan Company | $1.50?$: US dollar |
v+ 302 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
Uncanny Tales | 1917-00-00 | F. Marion Crawford | T. Fisher Unwin | 1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
254 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
A Century of Horror Stories | 1935-00-00 | ed. Dennis Wheatley | Hutchinson | 3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
1024 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Weird and Uncanny Tales | 1945-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Gulliver Books | 1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
94 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | |||
More Horror Stories | 1962-00-00 | ed. Elizabeth Lee (anthologist) | Paul Elek (Elek Bestseller Library) | 3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
222 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | |||
The Second Arrow Book of Horror Stories | 1965-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Arrow Books | 800 | 3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
221 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | ||
De bovenste kooi | 1967-00-00 | F. Marion Crawford | Bruna (Zwarte beertjes #1052) | 1052 | ƒ2.00 | 192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Dick Bruna | |
The Wild Night Company: Irish Stories of Fantasy and Horror | 1970-00-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Gollancz | 0-575-00431-2 | 287 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Forgotten Fantasy, October 1970 | 1970-10-00 | ed. Douglas Menville, Robert Reginald | Nectar Press | $0.60?$: US dollar |
132 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Bill Hughes | ||
The Wild Night Company | 1971-00-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Sphere | 0-7221-4261-7 | £0.40?£: UK pound |
317 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | ||
The Wild Night Company: Irish Stories of Fantasy and Horror | 1971-04-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Taplinger | 0-8008-8335-7 | $5.95?$: US dollar |
287 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
Weird Tales, Summer 1974 | 1974-00-00 | ed. Sam Moskowitz | Weird Tales | 47961 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
100 | pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75 |
mag | ||
Het gillende doodshoofd | 1975-00-00 | Francis Marion Crawford | Bruna (Bruna FEH #25) | 90-229-3525-6 | 191 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Robert Nix | ||
The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | 1977-00-00 | ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes | Fontana | 0-00-614900-6 | £0.60?£: UK pound |
189 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Alan Lee | |
Van Edgar Allan Poe tot Roald Dahl: De vijftig beste griezel-verhalen | 1980-00-00 | ed. Erik Lankester | Publiboek / Baart | 90-6513-012-8 | 514 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Kate Higgins | ||
65 Great Spine Chillers | 1982-00-00 | ed. Mary Danby | Octopus Books | 0-86273-045-7 | £4.95?£: UK pound |
670 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
65 Great Spine Chillers | 1982-00-00 | ed. Mary Danby | Octopus Books / Marks and Spencer | 0-86273-045-7 | 670 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Steve Crisp | ||
De beste griezelverhalen | 1982-00-00 | ed. Erik Lankester, Peter Loeb | K-Tel (The Golden Label) | 90-349-0041-X | 243 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | |||
65 Great Spine Chillers | 1983-00-00 | ed. Mary Danby | Octopus Books | 0-86273-045-7 | 670 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century | 1983-05-00 | ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh | Beaufort Books | 0-8253-0128-9 | $16.95?$: US dollar |
368 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
65 Great Spine Chillers | 1985-00-00 | ed. Mary Danby | Octopus Books | 0-7064-1848-4 | $8.95?$: US dollar |
672 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
The Dead Smile | 1986-00-00 | F. Marion Crawford | Necronomicon Press | 0-940884-15-1 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
18 | ph?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications. |
chap | Robert H. Knox | |
Car la vie est dans le sang | 1987-02-00 | Francis Marion Crawford | Néo (Fantastique / Science-fiction / Aventures #188) | 2-7304-0425-2 | 184 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Jean-Michel Nicollet | ||
Irish Tales of Terror | 1988-00-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers | 0-517-65499-7 | $6.98?$: US dollar |
317 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies | 1988-10-00 | ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye | Nelson Doubleday / SFBC | 11698 | $7.98?$: US dollar |
xxi+ 582 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Richard Kriegler | |
Famous Irish Ghost Stories | 1994-00-00 | ed. Mairtin O'Griofa | Sterling Publishing | 0-8069-0708-8 | $5.95?$: US dollar |
144 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Marlene Ekman | |
Irish Tales of Terror | 1994-12-13 | ed. Peter Haining | Wings Books | 0-517-12245-6 | 317 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Don Brautigam | ||
Weird Tales | 1996-00-00 | ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye | Barnes & Noble Books | 0-7607-0118-0 |
xiii+ 582 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Richard Kriegler | ||
Weird Tales | 1996-00-00 | ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye | Barnes & Noble Books | 0-7607-0294-2 |
xxi+ 582 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Richard Kriegler | ||
For the Blood Is the Life and Other Stories | 1996-12-00 | F. Marion Crawford | White Wolf Publishing | 1-56504-854-7 / WW 11054 | $5.99?$: US dollar |
ix+ 311 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Dedjora von Jutaz | |
Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror | 1997-00-00 | ed. John Betancourt, Robert Weinberg | Barnes & Noble Books | 0-7607-0403-1 | $7.98?$: US dollar |
xxi+ 428 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Bob Eggleton | |
The Book of Irish Weirdness | 1997-09-00 | ed. uncredited | Sterling Publishing | 0-8069-9936-5 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
484 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Philippe Lechien | |
12 Gothic Tales | 1998-00-00 | ed. Richard Dalby | Oxford University Press (Oxford Twelve) | 0-19-288094-2 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
viii+ 221 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Nasir Hamid | |
Uncanny Tales | 1999-00-00 | F. Marion Crawford | Tartarus Press | 1-872621-37-6 | £25.00?£: UK pound |
xiv+ 270 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole | 1999-03-00 | ed. Frank Festa | Blitz (H. P. Lovecrafts Bibliothek des Schreckens #1) | 3-932171-98-5 | DM 19.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
171 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Babbarammdass | |
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole | 2000-05-00 | ed. Frank Festa | Blitz (H. P. Lovecrafts Bibliothek des Schreckens #1) | 3-932171-98-5 | DM 19.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
171 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Babbarammdass | |
One Dark Night: 13 Masterpieces of the Macabre | 2000-09-00 | ed. Kathleen Blease | Ballantine Books | 0-345-44044-7 | $10.00?$: US dollar |
xiii+ 206 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole | 2002-06-00 | ed. Frank Festa | Festa (H. P. Lovecrafts Bibliothek des Schreckens #2601) | 3-935822-38-3 | €16.00?€: Euro |
172 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Babbarammdass | |
The Complete Wandering Ghosts | 2002-10-30 | F. Marion Crawford | Wildside Press (Wildside Fantasy Classics) | 1-58715-784-5 | $35.00?$: US dollar |
156 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
Great Ghost Stories | 2004-07-00 | ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Stephen Jones | Carroll & Graf | 0-7867-1363-1 | $13.00?$: US dollar |
xxiii+ 326 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Michael Gesinger | |
The Complete Wandering Ghosts | 2004-08-12 | F. Marion Crawford | Wildside Press | 1-55742-270-2 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
150 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | ||
The Complete Wandering Ghosts | 2004-09-09 | F. Marion Crawford | Wildside Press | 1-59224-039-9 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
150 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | ||
Irish Ghost Stories | 2005-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Wordsworth Editions | 1-84022-487-8 | 1102 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | E. W. Haslehust | ||
Great Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery and Madness | 2005-06-00 | ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Stephen Jones | Cemetery Dance Publications | 1-58767-103-4 | $40.00?$: US dollar |
356 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Les Edwards | |
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself | 2006-08-01 | ed. Stephen Jones | Pegasus Books | 978-1-60598-201-4 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Randy Broecker | |||
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself | 2006-09-00 | ed. Stephen Jones | Pegasus Books | 978-1-933648-01-9 | $15.95?$: US dollar |
xxiv+ 483 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Randy Broecker , John Pocacio | |
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 19 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself | 2007-06-25 | ed. Stephen Jones | Fall River Press | 978-0-7607-9123-3 | $7.98?$: US dollar |
xxvi+ 354 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
Uncanny Tales | 2009-02-01 | F. Marion Crawford | Tartarus Press | 978-1-905784-11-0 | £32.50?£: UK pound |
xvi+ 239 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
Wandering Ghosts | 2009-03-01 | F. Marion Crawford | Aegypan | 978-1-60664-395-2 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
156 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | M. Leone Bracker | |
Forgotten Fantasy: Issue #1, October 1970 | 2009-12-11 | ed. Douglas Menville, Robert Reginald | Borgo Press / Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-0480-0 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
130 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Bill Hughes | |
For the Blood Is the Life and Other Stories | 2010-02-26 | F. Marion Crawford | Dodo Press | 978-1-4099-7905-0 | $17.99?$: US dollar |
196 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | ||
Irish Ghost Stories | 2011-05-00 | ed. Rosemary Gray | Wordsworth Editions (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) | 978-1-84022-660-7 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
608 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||
The Ghost of Fear and Others | 2012-01-01 | ed. S. T. Joshi | Dark Renaissance Books | $16.95?$: US dollar |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
Wandering Ghosts | 2012-08-01 | F. Marion Crawford | Project Gutenberg | 40386 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
The Gothic Terror Megapack | 2015-01-28 | ed. Shawn M. Garrett | Wildside Press (Megapack) | 978-1-4794-0229-8 | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
Chilling Horror | 2015-08-15 | ed. Laura Bulbeck | Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) | 978-1-78361-374-8 | £20.00?£: UK pound |
480 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
The Dead Smile | 2016-03-09 | F. Marion Crawford | Fantasy and Horror Classics | 978-1-4733-6085-3 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | |||
Uncanny Tales | 2016-05-19 | F. Marion Crawford | Tartarus Press | $8.95?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | ||||
Chilling Horror | 2016-11-12 | ed. Laura Bulbeck | Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) | 978-1-78664-509-8 | £12.00?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
The Ghost of Fear and Others | 2016-11-19 | ed. S. T. Joshi | Dark Regions Press | 978-1-62641-222-4 | $20.95?$: US dollar |
372 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||
Horror Short Stories | 2017-11-30 | ed. Joanna Blythe | Arcturus Publishing | 978-1-78888-181-4 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
Horror Short Stories | 2018-03-15 | ed. Joanna Blythe | Arcturus Publishing | 978-1-78828-406-6 | 384 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole Band I & II | 2018-07-04 | Frank Festa | Festa | 978-3-86552-663-2 | €13.99?€: Euro |
608 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
omni | Timo Wuerz |
Reviews
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction