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The Pool

Daphne du Maurier

First published 1959
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

"A young girl named Deborah... finds herself drawn to a mysterious pool in the garden of her grandparents' home. At night she wanders outside and enters a magical world, or is it just a dream?" -- <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1602507684?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1">Gary</a>

Notes

First published in Breaking Point, London: Gollancz, 1959.

Publications (17)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1959 The Breaking Point: Eight Stories Gollancz Collection
1970 Cover The Blue Lenses and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 128
1976 Cover Echoes from the Macabre Gollancz Collection 111
1977 Cover Echoes from the Macabre Doubleday Collection 97
January 1978 Cover Echoes from the Macabre International Collectors Library Collection 99
April 1978 Cover Echoes from the Macabre Avon Collection 101
1980 The Birds and Other Stories Longman Collection 51
October 1991 Cover The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2 Virago Anthology 57
November 1992 Cover Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf Anthology 57
January 1993 Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf / BOMC Anthology 57
October 1993 Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf / QPBC Anthology 57
1994 Cover The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2 Virago Anthology 57
August 1994 Cover Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Carroll & Graf Anthology 57
August 1994 Cover The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2 Virago Anthology 57
September 1996 Cover Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers Barnes & Noble Books Anthology
September 2007 Cover The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 301
September 2007 Cover The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology 301