Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Year: 1860
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: shortstory
Language: English
ISFDB Record Number: 584613
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First published in the magazine The Welcome Guest, Sept 29, 1860.
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Variant Titles:
- The Cold Embrace (unknown) - The Author of 'Lady Audley's Secret,' 'Aurora Floyd,' Etc. Etc. Etc.
- The Cold Embrace (1860) - Mary E. Braddon
- The Cold Embrace (1860) - Elizabeth Braddon
- The Cold Embrace (1862) - Miss Braddon
- Amplessi freddi [Italian] (1988) - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publications:
- The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny, (1931, ed. Montague Summers, publ. Gollancz, 5/-, 622pp, hc, anth)
- The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny, (1931, ed. Montague Summers, publ. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50, xl+690pp, hc, anth)
- The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny, (Apr 1952, ed. Montague Summers, publ. Victor Gollancz, 622pp, hc, anth) - [VERIFIED]
- The Cold Embrace, (1966, ed. Alex Hamilton, publ. Corgi, #GN7508, 3/6, 188pp, pb, anth) Cover: George Underwood
- Women of the Weird: Eerie Stories by the Gentle Sex, (1976, ed. Seon Manley, Gogo Lewis, publ. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 0-688-41731-0, 188pp, hc, anth) Cover: Edward Gorey
- Classic Tales of Horror, (Oct 1976, ed. Stephanie Dowrick, publ. Constable & Co. Ltd., 0-09-461560-8, £3.75, xiii+270pp, hc, anth)
- Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories, (Feb 1977, ed. Michel Parry, publ. Corgi, 0-552-10390-X, £0.70, 190pp, pb, anth)
- Doomed to the Night: An Anthology of Ghost Stories, (1978, ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes, publ. William Kimber, 0-7183-0156-0, £4.25, 207pp, hc, anth)
- Chamber of Horrors, (1984, ed. uncredited, publ. Octopus Books, 0-7064-2053-5, $4.98, 349pp, hc, anth) Cover: Stuart Bodek
- The Penguin Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, Voodoo, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny, (1984, ed. Montague Summers, publ. Penguin Books, 0-14-007297-7, £4.95, 573pp, pb, anth) Cover: Steve Crisp - [VERIFIED]
- Chamber of Horrors, (1985, ed. uncredited, publ. Octopus Books, 0-7064-2053-5, $6.00, 349pp, hc, anth) Cover: Stuart Bodek
- Chamber of Horrors, (1987, ed. uncredited, publ. Gallery Books / W. H. Smith, 0-8317-1234-1, 349pp, hc, anth) Cover: Stuart Bodek - [VERIFIED]
- Occulta. L'omnibus del soprannaturale, (May 1988, ed. Montague Summers, publ. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Oscar #2036), 88-04-30846-X, 14,000 Lit, xiv+560pp, tp, anth) Cover: Karel Thole
- The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, (Sep 1988, ed. Richard Dalby, publ. Virago, 0-86068-809-7, £12.95, xvi+347pp, hc, anth)
- Anthology of Fear, (Dec 1988, ed. uncredited, publ. Marshall Cavendish Partworks, 1-85435-117-6, £3.95, 368pp, hc, anth)
- The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, (Sep 1989, ed. Richard Dalby, publ. Charnwood, 0-7089-8525-4, xxviii+562pp, hc, anth) - [VERIFIED]
- Ghost and Horror Stories, (Jul 1990, ed. uncredited, publ. Tynron Press, 1-871948-11-8, £9.95, 579pp, tp, anth) Cover: Sue Harmer
- Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers, (Jul 1990, ed. Richard Dalby, publ. Carroll & Graf, 0-88184-593-0, $9.95, xvi+347pp, tp, anth) Cover: Saksa Art & Design
- The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, (Aug 1992, ed. Richard Dalby, publ. Virago, 1-85381-480-6, £6.99, xvi+347pp, tp, anth) Cover: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, (1993, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Barnes & Noble Books, 1-56619-106-8, $7.98, 546+xivpp, hc, anth) Cover: Jack Eckstein
- 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, (1997, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Barnes & Noble Books, 1-56619-921-2, $4.98, 546pp, tp, anth)
- The Cold Embrace and Other Ghost Stories, (May 2000, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, publ. Ash-Tree Press, 1-55310-004-2, C$58.00, xxii+286pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jason C. Eckhardt
- One Dark Night: 13 Masterpieces of the Macabre, (Sep 2000, ed. Kathleen Blease, publ. Ballantine, 0-345-44044-7, $10.00, xiii+206pp, tp, anth)
- At Chrighton Abbey and Other Horror Stories, (2002, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, publ. Wildside Press, 1-59224-033-X, $12.99, 122pp, tp, coll)
- 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, (Oct 2003, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Sterling Publishing, 1-4027-0973-0, $12.95, 546pp, tp, anth)
- Tales to Freeze the Blood: More Great Ghost Stories, (Sep 2006, ed. Stephen Jones, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, publ. Carroll & Graf, 0-7867-1679-7, $15.95, xxiii+270pp, tp, anth)
- Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007, (Dec 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, digital audio download, anth)
- Horror Masters Vol. 4, (Jan 2010, ed. Sons of Horror, publ. River Styx Publishing, 978-1-61704-040-5, $12.89, 184pp, tp, anth)
- The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Volume 1, (Jan 2010, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, publ. Leonaur Ltd, 978-0-85706-049-5, £13.99, 500pp, tp, coll)
- The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Volume 1, (Jan 2010, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, publ. Leonaur Ltd, 978-0-85706-050-1, £21.99, 500pp, hc, coll)
- The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce, (Feb 2010, ed. Michael Newton, publ. Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 978-0-14-144236-5, £10.99, xliv+416pp, tp, anth)
- The Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales by Masters, (Mar 2011, ed. John Gregory Betancourt, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-3894-2, $0.99, ebook, anth) Cover: Elfwilde
- Ancient Terrors, (Aug 2012, ed. Guy Anthony De Marco, publ. Yurei Press, LLC, 978-1-62225-008-0, $14.95, i+276pp, tp, anth) - [VERIFIED]
- Ralph the Bailiff and Other Tales, (date unknown, The Author of 'Lady Audley's Secret,' 'Aurora Floyd,' Etc. Etc. Etc., publ. Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 424pp, hc, coll) - [VERIFIED]
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