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Title: The Harbour Master Title Record # 2359396
Author: Robert W. Chambers
Date: 1899-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Lost Species
Webpages: pseudopod.org
Language: English
Note: In Search of the Unknown (1904) is a fix-up novel (ISFDB) or collection (Mike Ashley, Encyclopedia of Fantasy) that incorporates or contains this story. "In Search of the Unknown" is also a title for this story alone, from 1971.
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1906 Published August 1899 in Ainslee's Magazine as "The Harbour Master". Published August 1906 in the second issue of US monthly People's Magazine, pp. 235-48(?), as "The Harbor-Master". --The FictionMags Index
The Harbor-Master
1971 In Search of the Unknown (1904) is a collection (Mike Ashley, Encyclopedia of Fantasy) or fix-up novel (ISFDB) that contains this story or incorporates it (ISFDB, this one among five "included mostly intact").
In Search of the Unknown
2009 The Harbour-Master
Year Language Title
1971Translated by Bruno Martin
French Le chef de port
1972Translated by Eduardo Saló
Portuguese Em busca do desconhecido
1975Translated by Heinz Nagel.
German Der Mann aus der Tiefe

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Ainslee's Magazine, August 1899 1899-08-00 ed. Editors of Ainslee's Magazine Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.10?$: US dollar
132
octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag  
The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories 1970-00-00 Robert W. Chambers Dover Publications 0-486-22500-3
$2.75?$: US dollar
xiii+
287
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 Checkmark
The Space Magicians 1971-01-00 ed. Sam Moskowitz, Alden H. Norton Pyramid Books T2393
$0.75?$: US dollar
206
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 Peter Bramley Checkmark
The Space Magicians 1971-01-00 ed. Sam Moskowitz, Alden H. Norton Pyramid Books T2393
C$0.75?C$: Canadian dollar
206
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 Peter Bramley Checkmark
L'âge d'or de la science-fiction: 3ème série 1971-12-15 ed. Sam Moskowitz, Alden H. Norton OPTA (
Fiction Spécial?Fiction Special
#19)
 
F7.00?F: French frank
255
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".
anth  
Os mágicos do espaço 1972-00-00 ed. Sam Moskowitz, Alden H. Norton Dêagá (Ciência #4)     181
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 Andrade Albuquerque  
Science-Fiction-Stories 45 1975-02-00 ed. Walter Spiegl Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 #85 (3109)) 3-548-03109-9
DM 3.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
124
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 Paul Lehr Checkmark
Gahan Wilson's Favorite Tales of Horror 1976-00-00 ed. Gahan Wilson Tempo Books / Grosset & Dunlap 0-448-12627-3
$1.75?$: US dollar
186
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 Gahan Wilson Checkmark
Gahan Wilson's Favorite Tales of Horror 1976-00-00 ed. Gahan Wilson Grosset & Dunlap 0-448-13523-X   186
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Gahan Wilson  
Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada 1981-00-00 ed. John Robert Colombo Hounslow Press     181
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada by Foreign Authors 1981-00-00 ed. John Robert Colombo Hounslow Press  
$8.95?$: US dollar
181
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 Checkmark
The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones in Thirteen Tales and Three Poems 1998-02-00 ed. Robert M. Price Chaosium (Call of Cthulhu Fiction #6017) 1-56882-113-1
$12.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
233
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 H. E. Fassl Checkmark
The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories 2004-08-00 Robert W. Chambers Dover Publications (Dover Mystery, Detective, Ghost Stories and Other Fiction) 0-486-43750-7
$14.95?$: US dollar
xiii+
287
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 Jeff A. Menges  
The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones 2006-00-00 ed. Robert M. Price Chaosium (Call of Cthulhu Fiction #6017) 1-56882-199-9
$14.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
233
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 H. E. Fassl Checkmark
Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Enigmatic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009-00-00 ed. Chad Arment Coachwhip Publications 978-1-61646-000-6
$14.95?$: US dollar
358
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  
Fantasies of Science, Romance, and the Weird: Volume 1 2009-03-23 Robert W. Chambers Coachwhip Publications 978-1-930585-78-2
$14.95?$: US dollar
345
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 Shadow Over Innsmouth 2015-02-00 ed. S. T. Joshi PS Publishing (Lovecraft Illustrated #5) 978-1-84863-735-1
£20.00?£: UK pound
144
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Pete Von Sholly  
Pseudopod, #632 2019-01-25 ed. Shawn Garrett, Alex Hofelich Escape Artists, Inc.  
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
mag Checkmark
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