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Title: Der Todtenkopf Title Record # 1894551
Author: F. Laun
Date: 1811-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: German
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Year Title
1976 Der Totenkopf [as by Friedrich Laun]
Year Language Title
1812 French La tête de mort [as by uncredited]
1813ⓘ Translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, from the 1812 French-language translation by J. B. B. Eyries
 English The Death's Head [as by uncredited]
1992 English The Death's Head [as by Friedrich Shultz]
2005 English The Death Head
2018ⓘ Unknown translation from the original German, perhaps new in 2018 "The Fantasmagoriana stories also collected here are translated directly from the German originals, and are the ones Mary mentions in the Introduction to her 1831 edition of Frankenstein [see at ISFDB], where she talks about how her novel came to be written." --Fiona Sampson, "Foreword: Mary Shelley Horror Stories" (2018) Thus the four Fantasmagoriana texts in the 2018 anthology are not those discussed by Shelley and her friends in 1816; namely, Eyries's 1812 translations from German to French (Fantasmagoriana, 8 stories). Whether the 2018 texts are new translations from the German originals is an open question.
 English The Death's Head [as by Friedrich Laun]

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Gespensterbuch: Zweites Bändchen 1811-00-00 ed. A. Apel, F. Laun
G. J. Göschen?G. J. Goeschen
     336
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
Fantasmagoriana: ou recueil d'histoires, d'apparitions, de spectres, revenants, fantômes, etc. 1812-00-00 ed. uncredited Chez F. Schoell     xvi+
276+
303
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
Tales of the Dead 1813-00-00 ed. uncredited White, Cochrane & Co.  
9/-?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).
 viii+
248
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
The Stanley Tales: Original and Select 1826-00-00 ed. Ambrose Marten W. Morgan     xxii+
334,356,356,356,356,359
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Checkmark
Tales of Other Days 1830-00-00 ed. J. Y. A. Effingham Wilson     vii+
250+
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
The Gentleman in Black, and Tales of Other Days 1840-00-00 uncredited Charles Daly     iv+
392
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni  
The Gentleman in Black, and Tales of Other Days 1845-00-00 uncredited C. Daly     iv+
392
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni  
The Gentleman in Black, and Tales of Other Days 1857-00-00 uncredited Edwards & Bushell     iv+
392
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni  
17 Horror-Stories 1976-00-00 ed. Manfred Kluge Heyne (Heyne-Anthologien #49) 3-453-45023-X
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
 254
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.
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Tales of the Dead: Ghost Stories of the Villa Diodati 1992-12-31 ed. Terry Hale The Gothic Society 1-874100-03-9   143
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  
Fantasmagoriana: (Tales of the Dead) 2005-10-00 ed. A. J. Day Fantasmagoriana Press 1-4116-5291-6   156
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
 anth  
Gespensterbuch, Band 1 2016-04-00 A. Apel, F. Laun Blitz (Blitz Meisterwerke der dunklen Phantastik #1404)  
€12.95?€: Euro
 398
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.
 omni Mark Freier Checkmark
Horror Stories 2018-12-15 ed. Mary Shelley (in error) Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78664-807-5
£20.00?£: UK pound
 480
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
Horror Stories 2018-12-15 ed. Mary Shelley (in error) Flame Tree Press (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78755-256-2
$9.99?$: US dollar
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 anth  
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