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Leiningen Versus the Ants

Carl Stephenson

First published 1944
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes

Borderline speculative: The ant invasion is very much larger than life, and even though the story is written as if it is an account of ordinary life in Brazil, it is the prototype of many more obviously speculative man-versus-nature stories. First published in Esquire, December 1938. The introduction in Crawling Horror states that in Esquire it was customary to list the translator for translated stories. They state that because none was listed, it can be assumed that Stephenson translated it himself. Filmed as The Naked Jungle (1954), starring Charlton Heston.

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Publications (32)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1944 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 188
1945 Cover Suspense Stories Collected by Alfred Hitchcock Dell Anthology
1947 Cover Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Simon & Schuster Anthology
1947 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 162
1947 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 188
1950 Cover Short Stories for Our Times Houghton Mifflin Anthology 3
1957 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 162
June 1959 Cover Great Tales of Action and Adventure Dell Anthology 23
1960 Cover The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories Pan Books Anthology 293
1963 Cover Striking Terror: A Selection of Great Horror Stories Arthur Barker Anthology 113
1966 The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories Pan Books Anthology 293
April 1967 Cover Great Tales of Action and Adventure Dell Laurel-Leaf Anthology 23
1969 Cover The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories Pan Books Anthology 293
1971 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 162
1972 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hammond, Hammond & Co. Anthology 162
1973 The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories Pan Books Anthology 293
1977 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Book Club Associates Anthology 162
November 1977 Cover Great Tales of Action and Adventure Dell Anthology 23
1982 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Hutchinson Anthology 162
November 1982 Cover Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Reader's Digest Association Anthology 463
1983 Cover Ghastly, Ghoulish, Gripping Tales Franklin Watts Anthology 127
1984 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Penguin Books Anthology 467
1985 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Penguin Books Anthology 467
October 1985 The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Viking UK Anthology
October 1987 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Penguin Books Anthology 467
1991 Cover The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Bloomsbury Anthology
1994 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 182
October 1994 Cover Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern Library Anthology 182
May 2011 Cover The Big Book of Adventure Stories Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 187
2013 Cover Survive, or Die! 21 Ultimate Adventures Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology
2020 Cover Black Infinity, Summer 2020 Rocket Science Books MAGAZINE 69
June 2021 Cover Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird The British Library Anthology 291