Note: There are other authors with the same name: William Beckford (in error)

Author: William Beckford Author Record # 630 Legal Name: Beckford, William Thomas Birthplace: Fonthill, Somerset, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Birthdate: 1 October 1760 Deathdate: 2 May 1844 Language: English Webpages: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Library of Congress, rictornorton.co.uk, Wikipedia-EN Used These Alternate Names: William Beckford, Esq., W. Beckford Author Tags: Internet Archive (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), Librivox (1), weird (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)

• Vathek
  • 1 Vathek [French] (1786) only appeared as:
    • Translation: An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript: With Notes Critical and Explanatory [English] (1786) [as by uncredited]
    • Translation: Vathek [English] (1786)
    • Variant: Vathek (1787) [as by uncredited]
    • Variant: Vathek: Conte Arabe (1787) [as by uncredited]
    • Variant: Vathek (1815) [as by uncredited]
    • Translation: Vathek [English] (1816) [as by uncredited]
    • Translation: Vathek: An Arabian Tale [English] (1834)
    • Translation: The History of the Caliph Vathek [English] (1868) [as by William Beckford, Esq.]
    • Translation: The History of the Caliph Vathek [English] (1881)
    • Translation: Vathek [German] (1907)
    • Translation: Vathek [German] (1921)
    • Translation: Vathek [German] (1924)
    • Translation: Vathek [Romanian] (1987)
    • Translation: Vathek: An Arabian Tale [English] (2013) [as by William Beckford, Esq.]
    • Translation: Vathek, an Arabian Tale [English] (2020)
  • 2 The Episodes of Vathek (1912) [C]
  • History of the Caliph Vathek (1910) [SF]
  • Histoire de la Princesse Zulkaïs et du Prince Kalilah [French] (1912) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Zulkaïs and Kalilah [English] (1909)
    • Translation: The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah [English] (1912)
  • Histoire du Prince Alasi et de la Princesse Firouzkah [French] (1912) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah [English] (1912)
  • Histoire du Prince Barkiarokh [French] (1912) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: The Story of Prince Barkiarokh [English] (1912)
  • Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek [French] (1929)
  • The Third Episode of Vathek (1937) [SF] with Clark Ashton Smith also appeared as:
    • Variant: The Third Episode of Vathek (1937) [as by Clark Ashton Smith]
    • Variant: The Third Episode of Vathek: The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah (1937) [as by Clark Ashton Smith]
    • Translation: Le troisième épisode de Vathek [French] (1988) [as by Clark Ashton Smith]
    • Translation: Die dritte Episode des Vathek: Die Geschichte von Prinzessin Zulkais und Prinz Kalilah [German] (2016) [as by Clark Ashton Smith]
  • The History of the Caliph Vathek (1971)
  • Vathek (2011) [SF]
  • The History of Caliph Vathek (excerpt) (2019) [SF]

• The Vision / Liber Veritatis (1930)
• Vathek and Other Stories (1995)

• Bătrînul baron Englez / Vathek^?Batrinul baron Englez / Vathek
  [Romanian] (1987) [O] with Clara Reeve
• The Castle of Otranto, Vathek & Nightmare Abbey (2009) [O] with Thomas Love Peacock and Horace Walpole
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Gothic Classics (2013) [O] with Charles Maturin and Dr. John William Polidori and Robert Louis Stevenson and Horace Walpole [only as by William Beckford and Charles Maturin and John Polidori and Robert Louis Stevenson and Horace Walpole]

• Vathek (2011)

• The Vision (1777)
• Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (1780)
• The Palace of Subterranean Fire (1786)
• Vathek (excerpt) (1786)
• Modern Novel Writing or the Elegant Enthusiast (1796)
• Azemia, A Drescriptive or Sentimental Novel (1797)

• Dreams, Waking thoughts and Incidents (1783)
• The Journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain 1787-88 (1787)
• Appendix I: Prefaces to Vathek: The French edition published in London, 1815 (1815)
• introduction (Vathek) [French] (1815) only appeared as:
  • Variant: Introduction (Vathek) (1815) [as by W. Beckford]
  • Variant: Preface to the Third French Edition (1868) [as by W. Beckford]
  • Variant: Preface to the London Edition 1815 (1929)
• Italy, with Sketches of Spain and Portugal (1834)
• Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha (1835)
• Liber Veritatis (1930)
• Explanatory Notes (Vathek) (1970) with Samuel Henley and Roger Lonsdale