Title: Гробовщик

Title: Title Record # 1301664
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Date: 1831-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
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Language: Russian

Note: The title reads Grobovshchik, "The Undertaker / Mortician", literally "Coffin-Maker".

Synopsis: A coffin-maker, angered by others' derision of his profession, drunkenly invites his corpses to dinner at his home. They arrive (he may be dreaming this).

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1830	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Nikolai Pushkin]
1894^ⓘTranslated by T. Keane. This title record covers publications that are believed to be the Keane translation; it is confirmed in the case of The Book of the Living Dead, but the others should be checked.	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1894^ⓘTranslated by T. Keane	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Alexander Poushkin]
1936^ⓘTranslated by T. Keane, revised by Avrahm Yarmolinsky.	English	The Undertaker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1949^ⓘTranslated by André Gide and Jacques Schiffrin	French	Le marchand de cercueils [as by Pouchkine]
1957^ⓘTranslated by John Wakefield	English	The Undertaker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1975^ⓘTranslated by André Meynieux	French	Le fabricant de cercueils [as by Alexandre Pouchkine]
1978	German	Gäste zur Nacht^?Gaeste zur Nacht [as by Alexander Puschkin]
1981^ⓘTranslated by Ernest Jaubert and B. Tseytline.	French	Le marchand de cercueils [as by Alexandre Pouchkine]
1984^ⓘTranslated by Michael Pfeiffer	German	Der Sargmacher [as by Alexander Puschkin]
1984^ⓘTranslated by I. Litvinov, T. Litvinov	English	The Undertaker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1994^ⓘTranslated by Marilyn Minto	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin]
2015^ⓘTranslated by unknown	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Alexander Pushkin]

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Prose Tales of Alexander Poushkin	1894-00-00	Alexander Poushkin	George Bell & Sons			402	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
More Great Tales of Horror	1935-00-00	ed. Marjorie Bowen	John Lane, The Bodley Head		8/6^?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).	xviii+ 431	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Tales of the Supernatural	1945-00-00	ed. uncredited	Pan Books		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).	126	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
Tales of the Supernatural	1947-08-00	ed. uncredited	Pan Books	22	2/-^?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).	183	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	Ronald Searle
Tales of the Supernatural	1951-00-00	ed. uncredited	Pan Books	22	2/-^?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).	183	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	Carl Wilton
Phantom, July 1957	1957-07-00	ed. Leslie Syddall	Dalrow Publications Limited		2/-^?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).	112	octavo^?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	mag	R. W. S.
La dame de pique et autres récits	1960-00-00	Pouchkine	Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classique #577)			179	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	Goya
Summoned from the Tomb: Great Tales of Horror	1966-10-00	ed. Peter Haining	Brown, Watson	R968	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).	160	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
Summoned from the Tomb: Great Tales of Horror	1973-01-00	ed. Peter Haining	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-97955-0	£2.25^?£: UK pound	ix+ 213	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	William Rankin
La Russie fantastique de Pouchkine à Platonov	1975-00-00	ed. Jean-Pierre Bours	Marabout (Anthologie du Fantastique)			406	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	Henri Lievens
18 Geisterstories	1978-00-00	ed. Manfred Kluge	Heyne (Heyne-Anthologien #61)	3-453-45034-5	DM 7.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	256	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
La princesse morte et les sept chevaliers	1981-00-00	Alexandre Pouchkine	Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur)	2-264-00359-6		236	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	Alain Tercinet
Russian 19th-century Gothic Tales	1984-00-00	ed. Valentin Korovin	Радуга^?Raduga	5-05-000195-1		606	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Der Postmeister und andere Erzählungen	1984-00-00	Alexander Puschkin	Neues Leben (Kompass-Bücherei #316)		M 1.80^?M: East German mark	169	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	Hille Blumfeld
Russian Tales of the Fantastic	1994-00-00	ed. Marilyn Minto	Bristol Classical Press	1-85399-225-9	£9.95^?£: UK pound	xv+ 199	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	Ken Hamer
Great Short Stories: Fiction from the Masters of World Literature	1995-00-00	ed. Charles Neider	Carroll & Graf	0-7867-0268-0	$16.95^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 553	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 Book of the Living Dead	2010-10-00	ed. John Richard Stephens	Berkley Books	978-0-425-23706-9	$15.00^?$: US dollar	xi+ 399	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
100 Great Short Stories	2015-02-23	ed. James Daley	Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions)	978-0-486-80328-9	$10.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
100 Great Short Stories	2015-03-18	ed. James Daley	Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions)	978-0-486-79021-3		768	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

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Reviews

Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction