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Title: The Beast with Five Fingers Title Record # 754497
Author: William Fryer Harvey
Date: 1919-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Webpages: famous-and-forgotten-fiction.com, librivox.org, talestoterrify.com
Language: English
Note: The story was revised for its first book publication in 1928. All subsequent publications probably reprint the revised version. First published in The New Decameron, Basil Blackwell (Oxford), 1919; this version can be read at the Famous and Forgotten Fiction link above.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1919 The Beast with Five Fingers [as by William F. Harvey]
1919First published in "The New Decameron".
The Beast with Five Fingers [as by W. F. Harvey]
Year Language Title
1963 French
La bête à cinq doigts?La bete à cinq doigts
[as by William F. Harvey]
1963 French
La bête à cinq doigts?La bete a cinq doigts
[as by W. F. Harvey]
1964 German
Die Bestie mit den fünf Fingern?Die Bestie mit den fuenf Fingern
[as by W. F. Harvey]
1967Translated by G. W. Roos
Dutch Het beest met vijf vingers [as by W. F. Harvey]
1974Translated by Juan Antonio Molina Foix
Spanish La bestia con cinco dedos
1974Translated by Alf Agdler.
Swedish Monstret med fem fingrar [as by W. F. Harvey]
1974Translated by Hans Maeter.
German Nur eine Hand [as by W. F. Harvey]
1981 Italian Il mistero delle cinque dita [as by W. F. Harvey]
1993Translated by and unknown translator
Italian Il mistero delle cinque dita [as by W. F. Harvey]
1994Translated by Sari Kallioinen and Anita Puumalainen
Finnish Käsi [as by W. F. Harvey]
2007Translated by an unknown hand
French La bête à cinq doigts

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales 1928-00-00 William Fryer Harvey J. M. Dent  
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).
vii+
228
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales 1928-00-00 William Fryer Harvey E. P. Dutton  
$2.50?$: US dollar
vii+
228
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales 1932-00-00 William Fryer Harvey J. M. Dent  
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).
vii+
228
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales 1941-00-00 William Fryer Harvey Guild / Dent 4   128
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  
Midnight Tales 1946-00-00 William Fryer Harvey J. M. Dent  
8/6?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).
xiv+
200
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Geo. Mansell  
The Beast with Five Fingers: Twenty Tales of the Uncanny 1947-00-00 William Fryer Harvey E. P. Dutton  
$2.50?$: US dollar
219
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Midnight Tales 1962-00-00 William Fryer Harvey Aldine 10
5/-?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).
xv+
200
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  
The Second Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories 1967-00-00 ed. Christine Bernard Fontana  
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).
221
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 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories 1969-00-00 ed. Christine Bernard Fontana 0-00-612106-3
4/-?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).
221
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  
Open at Your Own Risk 1975-00-00 ed. Joan Kahn Houghton Mifflin 0-395-20718-5
$12.95?$: US dollar
xiii+
506
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Bill Sumner  
Open at Your Own Risk 1976-00-00 ed. Joan Kahn Hamish Hamilton 0-241-89312-7
£4.95?£: UK pound
xiii+
506
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories 1980-00-00 ed. Christine Bernard Fontana     221
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  
Reel Terror 1992-04-00 ed. Sebastian Wolfe Xanadu 0-947761-53-5
£9.99?£: UK pound
249
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 Checkmark
Reel Terror 1992-06-00 ed. Sebastian Wolfe Carroll & Graf 0-88184-821-2
$9.95?$: US dollar
249
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 Checkmark
The Double Eye 2009-06-29 William Fryer Harvey Tartarus Press 978-1-905784-14-1
£32.50?£: UK pound
xvi+
303
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
M Is for Monster: A Modern Bestiary of Classic Monsters 2011-08-27 ed. Michael Kelahan Fall River Press 978-1-4351-3073-9
$7.98?$: US dollar
xi+
450
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Charles Errard  
Tales to Terrify, #202 2015-12-04 ed. Tony C. Smith District of Wonders  
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
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