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Title: Never Bet the Devil Your Head Title Record # 85562
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1845-08-16
Variant Title of: Never Bet Your Head (1841) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: librivox.org, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note:
  • First published under this title in the August 16, 1845 Broadway Journal with the subtitle "A Tale with a Moral" (a variation on the earlier "A Moral Tale"). Later printings dropped the subtitle altogether.
  • See the notes here and this OCR scan.
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Current Tags: Librivox (1), parody (1)

Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 9 1905-00-00 Edgar Allan Poe
Croscup & Holby?Croscup and Holby
(The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe #9)
     
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Weird Tales, March 1924 1924-03-00 ed. Edwin Baird The Rural Publishing Corp.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
i+
96+
[1]
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag R. M. Mally Checkmark
The Evil People 1968-00-00 ed. Peter Haining Leslie Frewin 0-09-086870-6
25/-?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).
252
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Bizarre Fantasy Tales, Fall 1970 1970-00-00 ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes Health Knowledge, Inc.  
$0.60?$: US dollar
132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Virgil Finlay Checkmark
The Evil People 1974-00-00 ed. Peter Haining Ensign Books 7235-5197-9
£0.30?£: UK pound
252
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 Joseph Lombardero Checkmark
The Evil People 1975-00-00 ed. Peter Haining Everest Books 0-903925-85-0
£0.50?£: UK pound
251
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  
Edgar Allan Poe 1983-00-00 Edgar Allan Poe Chatham River Press 0-517-41375-2   xii+
704
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Works of Edgar Allan Poe 1985-00-00 Edgar Allan Poe Gramercy Books 0-517-05358-6   ix+
753
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies 1988-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Nelson Doubleday / SFBC 11698
$7.98?$: US dollar
xxi+
582
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Kriegler Checkmark
Edgar Allan Poe: A Collection of Stories 1992-07-00 Edgar Allan Poe Tor 0-812-50455-0
$2.50?$: US dollar
236
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 Paul Jennis  
Edgar Allan Poe: A Collection of Stories 1994-04-00 Edgar Allan Poe Tor 0-812-50455-0
$2.50?$: US dollar
xiv+
236
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 Paul Jennis  
Weird Tales 1996-00-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0118-0   xiii+
582
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Kriegler Checkmark
Weird Tales 1996-00-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0294-2   xxi+
582
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 Richard Kriegler Checkmark
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5 (Raven Edition) 2000-04-01 Edgar Allan Poe Project Gutenberg 2151    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Weird Tales, March 1924 2004-07-00 ed. Edwin Baird Girasol Collectables  
$35.00?$: US dollar
96
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 R. M. Mally  
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5 (Raven Edition) 2013-11-23 Edgar Allan Poe LibriVox      
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
coll  
Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories 2017-08-25 Edgar Allan Poe Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78664-545-6
£20.00?£: UK pound
480
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Weird Tales 2019-00-00 ed. uncredited Pulp Classics on DVD      
other?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.
anth Margaret Brundage Checkmark
Edgar Allan Poe: A Collection of Stories date unknown Edgar Allan Poe Tor 0-812-50455-0
$3.99?$: US dollar
236
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 Paul Jennis  
Edgar Allan Poe: A Collection of Stories date unknown Edgar Allan Poe Tor 0-812-50455-0
$2.99?$: US dollar
xiv+
236
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 Paul Jennis  
The Evil People date unknown ed. Peter Haining Popular Library 445-01356-075
$0.75?$: US dollar
207
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 Zuckerberg Checkmark
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