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One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts

Shirley Jackson

First published January 1955
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A man spends a whole day in a city helping everyone he meets. On returning home to his wife we find that things are not all that they seem.

Publications (43)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1955 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 53
1956 Cover The Best American Short Stories 1956 Houghton Mifflin Anthology 195
January 1956 Cover The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fifth Series Doubleday Anthology 146
March 1956 Cover The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fifth Series Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 146
May 1956 Cover S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Dell Anthology 226
July 1956 Cover S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Gnome Press Anthology 226
1961 Cover The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fifth Series Ace Books Anthology 144
November 1967 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Delacorte Press Anthology 428
1968 Cover The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fifth Series Ace Books Anthology 144
1968 Cover Designs in Fiction The Macmillan Company Anthology 218
1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Rupert Hart-Davis Anthology 428
February 1968 Cover Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 145
April 1968 Cover Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 145
August 1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Dell Anthology 428
August 1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Dell Anthology 428
October 1969 Cover Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 145
December 1969 Cover Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 145
1970 Cover SF The Best of the Best Part Two Mayflower Anthology 211
February 1970 Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 145
March 1972 Cover A Science Fiction Argosy Simon & Schuster Anthology 160
May 1972 Cover A Science Fiction Argosy Simon & Schuster / SFBC Anthology 152
April 1973 Cover A Science Fiction Argosy Gollancz Anthology
1976 Cover Women of the Weird: Eerie Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 11
October 1979 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1979 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 117
1980 Cover Early September: An Anthology of Short Stories Nelson (Canada) Anthology 118
April 1980 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective Doubleday Anthology 107
April 1980 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 107
September 1980 Cover What If? Volume 1 Pocket Books Anthology 167
September 1980 Cover What If? Volume 1 Pocket Books Anthology 167
March 1981 Cover A Treasury of Modern Fantasy Avon Anthology 285
July 1984 Cover Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1984 TZ Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 75
1985 Cover The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Octopus Books Anthology 441
1991 Cover Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction Chancellor Press Anthology 441
August 1992 Cover Masters of Fantasy Galahad Books Anthology 285
October 1994 Cover Masters of Fantasy Bristol Park Books Anthology 285
January 1997 Cover Just an Ordinary Day Bantam Books Collection 296
January 1997 Cover Just an Ordinary Day Bantam Books Collection 296
January 1998 Cover Just an Ordinary Day Bantam Books Collection 329
September 2009 Cover The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology Tachyon Publications Anthology 29
September 2009 Cover The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology Tachyon Publications / SFBC Anthology 29
October 2009 Cover Just an Ordinary Day Bantam Books Collection
May 2010 Cover Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories The Library of America Omnibus 662
October 2020 Cover The Shirley Jackson Collection The Library of America Omnibus 662