The Vertical Ladder
| First published | November 1946 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
Synopsis
A boy is dared by other boys to climb an old gas tower.
Notes
There is nothing supernatural in this story, but it has appeared in enough anthologies of horror stories to be considered "genre." First published in English Story, Fifth Series, 1944.
Publications (22)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1946 | Good Housekeeping, November 1946 | MAGAZINE | |||
| 1948 |
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Something Terrible, Something Lovely | Hogarth Press | Collection | 25 |
| 1948 | Something Terrible, Something Lovely | Clarke Irwin | Collection | ||
| 1948 | Something Terrible, Something Lovely | Oxford | Collection | ||
| 1954 |
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Something Terrible, Something Lovely | Harcourt, Brace & Company | Collection | |
| 1960 |
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The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories | Pan Books | Anthology | 58 |
| 1966 | The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories | Pan Books | Anthology | 58 | |
| February 1967 |
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Stories of the Supernatural | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 85 |
| February 1968 |
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Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 39 |
| April 1968 |
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Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 39 |
| 1969 |
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The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories | Pan Books | Anthology | 58 |
| September 1969 |
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Stories of the Supernatural | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 85 |
| October 1969 |
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Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 39 |
| December 1969 |
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Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 39 |
| February 1970 | Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 39 | |
| December 1972 |
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Stories of the Supernatural | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 85 |
| 1973 | The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories | Pan Books | Anthology | 58 | |
| July 1974 |
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Stories of the Supernatural | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 85 |
| 1980 | Points of View Book 1 | Ward, Lock | Anthology | 38 | |
| 1980 |
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You Can't Keep Out the Darkness | The Bodley Head | Anthology | 55 |
| 1986 |
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The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 413 |
| December 2002 |
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Various Temptations | Tartarus Press | Collection | 214 |