Title: Lucky's Grove

Title: Lucky's Grove Title Record # 583541
Author: H. Russell Wakefield
Date: 1940-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: First published in The Clock Strikes Twelve, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940.

Synopsis: In preparation of the upcoming Christmas celebrations, the servants of a wealthy gentleman unknowingly cut a tree from the sacred grounds of Lucky's Grove.

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Year	Title
1940	Lucky's Grove [as by H. R. Wakefield]
1940	Lucky's Grove [as by Herbert Russell Wakefield]

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Clock Strikes Twelve: Tales of the Supernatural	1940-00-00	H. Russell Wakefield	Herbert Jenkins		7/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	271	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Clock Strikes Twelve	1946-00-00	H. Russell Wakefield	Arkham House		$3.00^?$: US dollar	xi+ 248	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Ronald Clyne
Stories From The Clock Strikes Twelve	1961-00-00	H. R. Wakefield	Ballantine Books	531	$0.35^?$: US dollar	159	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Richard Powers
Medley Macabre: An Anthology of Stories of the Supernatural, Being Ghosts, Psychical Phenomena, Uncanny Mysteries	1966-00-00	ed. Bryan A. Netherwood	Hammond, Hammond and Company		30/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	544	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	1968-03-00	ed. Christine Bernard	Fontana	1702	3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	1969-07-00	ed. Christine Bernard	Fontana	1702		188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Restless Ghost and Other Encounters and Experiences	1970-00-00	ed. Susan Dickinson	Collins	0-00-195272-2	30/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	318	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Usurping Ghost & Other Encounters and Experiences	1971-00-00	ed. Susan Dickinson	E. P. Dutton	0-525-41902-0	$5.95^?$: US dollar	318	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	1971-01-00	ed. Christine Bernard	Berkley Medallion	S1942	$0.75^?$: US dollar	192	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Ghostly Experiences	1973-00-00	ed. Susan Dickinson	Fontana Lions	0-00-671321-1	£0.50^?£: UK pound	158	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Chris Yates
The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	1973-09-00	ed. Christine Bernard	Fontana	0-00-612294-9	£0.25^?£: UK pound	188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	1974-12-00	ed. Christine Bernard	Fontana	0-00-612294-9	£0.35^?£: UK pound	188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Uncanny Tales 3	1975-00-00	ed. Dennis Wheatley	Sphere (The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult #37)	0-7221-9039-5	£0.60^?£: UK pound	235+ [5]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories	1977-05-00	ed. Christine Bernard	Fontana	0-00-614655-4	£0.50^?£: UK pound	188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	John Holmes
Realms of Darkness	1985-00-00	ed. Mary Danby	Octopus Books	0-86273-244-1	$8.95^?$: US dollar	796	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Realms of Darkness	1985-00-00	ed. Mary Danby	Octopus Books	0-86273-244-1		796	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Ghosts for Christmas	1988-10-00	ed. Richard Dalby	Michael O'Mara Books	0-948397-18-7	£10.95^?£: UK pound	339	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Clifford Harper
Ghosts for Christmas	1989-10-00	ed. Richard Dalby	Headline	0-7472-3276-8	£4.99^?£: UK pound	339	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Ghosts for Christmas	1989-11-00	ed. Richard Dalby	Carroll & Graf	0-88184-518-3	$18.95^?$: US dollar	339	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories	1998-04-00	H. R. Wakefield	Ash-Tree Press	1-899562-45-1	C$51.00^?C$: Canadian dollar	xxii+ 265	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Paul Lowe
The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories	2012-02-01	H. R. Wakefield	Ash-Tree Press	978-1-55310-192-5	$6.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Paul Lowe
Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings	2018-00-00	ed. Tanya Kirk	The British Library (British Library Tales of the Weird)	978-0-7123-5252-9	£8.99^?£: UK pound	318	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Enrique Bernardou

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Reviews

Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 455 - 723)