Title: Гробовщик

Title: Title Record # 1301664
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Date: 1831-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
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Language: Russian

Note: The title reads Grobovshchik, "The Undertaker / Mortician", literally "Coffin-Maker".

Synopsis: A coffin-maker, angered by others' derision of his profession, drunkenly invites his corpses to dinner at his home. They arrive (he may be dreaming this).

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1830	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Nikolai Pushkin]
1894^ⓘTranslated by T. Keane. This title record covers publications that are believed to be the Keane translation; it is confirmed in the case of The Book of the Living Dead, but the others should be checked.	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1894^ⓘTranslated by T. Keane	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Alexander Poushkin]
1936^ⓘTranslated by T. Keane, revised by Avrahm Yarmolinsky.	English	The Undertaker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1949^ⓘTranslated by André Gide and Jacques Schiffrin	French	Le marchand de cercueils [as by Pouchkine]
1957^ⓘTranslated by John Wakefield	English	The Undertaker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1975^ⓘTranslated by André Meynieux	French	Le fabricant de cercueils [as by Alexandre Pouchkine]
1978	German	Gäste zur Nacht^?Gaeste zur Nacht [as by Alexander Puschkin]
1981^ⓘTranslated by Ernest Jaubert and B. Tseytline.	French	Le marchand de cercueils [as by Alexandre Pouchkine]
1984^ⓘTranslated by Michael Pfeiffer	German	Der Sargmacher [as by Alexander Puschkin]
1984^ⓘTranslated by I. Litvinov, T. Litvinov	English	The Undertaker [as by Alexander Pushkin]
1994^ⓘTranslated by Marilyn Minto	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin]
2015^ⓘTranslated by unknown	English	The Coffin-Maker [as by Alexander Pushkin]

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Reviews

Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction