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Title: Pirates Title Record # 742333
Author: E. F. Benson
Date: 1928-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: A man in his forties with no living family is driven by nostalgia to move back into his childhood home in Cornwall.
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Current Tags: fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1), Cornwall (1), nostalgia (1) Add Tags

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Translations
Year Language Title
2000Translated by Marguerite Faguer and Norbert Gaulard (1953 translation of the former revised by the latter in 2000) in Norbert Gaulard and Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière's anthology La porte ouverte: Histoires de fantômes d'enfants, Paris, Joëlle Losfeld, 2000, p. 199-216.
French Les pirates

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Hutchinson's Magazine, October 1928 1928-10-00 ed. Editors of Hutchinson's Magazine        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
More Spook Stories 1934-00-00 E. F. Benson Hutchinson  
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).
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll P. Youngman Carter  
50 Years of Ghost Stories 1935-00-00 ed. uncredited Hutchinson  
2/6?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).
ix+
702
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
More Spook Stories 1935-00-00 E. F. Benson Hutchinson  
2/6?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).
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
A Century of Ghost Stories 1936-00-00 ed. uncredited Hutchinson  
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).
1013
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Tale of an Empty House and Other Ghost Stories 1986-11-14 E. F. Benson Black Swan 0-552-99222-4
£3.95?£: UK pound
xi+
232
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.
coll Julek Heller Checkmark
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson 1992-11-00 E. F. Benson Robinson 1-85487-110-2
£7.99?£: UK pound
xvii+
624
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.
coll Checkmark
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson 1992-12-00 E. F. Benson Carroll & Graf 0-88184-857-3
$10.95?$: US dollar
xvi+
624
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.
coll  
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson 1996-00-00 E. F. Benson Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0365-2
$12.95?$: US dollar
xvii+
624
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.
coll Kathleen M. Lynch , Barnaby Hall Checkmark
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson 1996-11-00 E. F. Benson Carroll & Graf 1-85487-110-2
$12.95?$: US dollar
xvi+
624
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.
coll  
La porte ouverte: Histoires de fantômes d'enfants 2000-04-00 ed. Norbert Gaulard,
Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière?Xavier Legrand-Ferronniere
Joëlle Losfeld 2-84412-046-6
F119.00?F: French frank
219
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  
Sea Mist 2005-02-25 E. F. Benson Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-078-6
C$59.00?C$: Canadian dollar
xxxii+
342
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Douglas Walters  
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson 2012-06-05 E. F. Benson Wordsworth Editions (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) 978-1-84022-685-0
£2.99?£: UK pound
xi+
705
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.
coll Nathan Clair  
The Outcast and Other Dark Tales 2020-03-19 E. F. Benson The British Library (British Library Tales of the Weird) 978-0-7123-5386-1
£8.99?£: UK pound
284
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.
coll
Sandra Gómez?Sandra Gomez
Checkmark
The Outcast and Other Dark Tales 2020-03-19 E. F. Benson The British Library (British Library Tales of the Weird) 978-0-7123-6755-4
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll
Sandra Gómez?Sandra Gomez
 
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