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Title: The Adventure of the German Student Title Record # 91871
Author: Washington Irving
Date: 1824-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman
Language: English
User Rating: 6.00 (2 votes) Including variants and translations: 6.33 (3 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1824 Adventure of the German Student
1824 The Adventure of the German Student [as by Geoffrey Crayon]
1824 The Adventure of the German Student [as by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]
1824 The Lady with the Velvet Collar
1836 The Execution [as by uncredited]
1918 The Lady with the Velvet Collar; or, The Adventure of the German Student [as by W. Irving]
1927 The Lady of the Velvet Collar
1981 The Tale of the German Student
Year Language Title
1958ⓘTranslated by Robert Benayoun
 French Aventure d'un étudiant allemand
1972ⓘTranslated by Hugo A. Brown / Perla Lenci / Raquel Kuperman
 Spanish La aventura del estudiante alemán
1979ⓘTranslated by Henri Parisot.
 French L'étudiant allemand
1997ⓘTranslated by an unknown hand (Robert Benayoun ?).
 French L'aventure de l'étudiant allemand

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Tales of a Traveller 1824-00-00 Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. John Murray     xvi+
364+
vi+
394
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Checkmark
Tales of All Nations, March 12, 1836 1836-03-12 ed. Editors of Tales of All Nations W. Strange   -/1  
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
 mag Vasey  
Tales of All Nations; or, Popular Legends and Romances 1848-00-00 ed. uncredited T. Allman     380
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
Famous Ghost Stories 1918-07-00 ed. J. Walker McSpadden Thomas Y. Crowell (The "Mystery" Library)   $1.25 x+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
Weird Tales, February 1927 1927-02-00 ed. Farnsworth Wright Popular Fiction Publishing Co.   $0.25 148
pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
 mag C. Barker Petrie, Jr. Checkmark
The Story Survey 1939-00-00 ed. Harold Blodgett J. B. Lippincott     797
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Checkmark
Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants 1947-00-00 ed. Elinore Blaisdell Thomas Y. Crowell   $3.50 ix+
372
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Checkmark
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories 1964-00-00 Washington Irving Airmont Books (Airmont Classics #50) CL50 $0.50 190
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 Checkmark
Famous Tales of the Fantastic 1965-00-00 ed. Herbert van Thal Arthur Barker   18/- 207
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Magazine of Horror, April 1965 1965-04-00 ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes Health Knowledge, Inc.   $0.50 132
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 Checkmark
Tales to Tremble By 1966-00-00 ed. Stephen P. Sutton Whitman Publishing Company (Whitman Classics) 1631 $0.89 214
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Shannon Stirnweis Checkmark
Rod Serling's Devils and Demons 1967-02-00 ed. Rod Serling Bantam Books H3324 $0.60 viii+
212
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.
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Rod Serling's Devils and Demons 1967-02-00 ed. Rod Serling Bantam Books H3324 $0.60 viii+
212
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  
A Romantic Storybook 1971-00-00 ed. Morris Bishop Cornell University Press 0-8014-0658-7 $7.50 xiv+
309
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Alison Mason Kingsbury Checkmark
Rod Serling's Devils and Demons 1971-03-00 ed. Rod Serling Bantam Books S5821 $0.75 viii+
212
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.
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Gothic Tales of Terror 1972-00-00 ed. Peter Haining Taplinger 0-8008-3590-5 $11.95 viii+
928
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
Gothic Tales of Terror, Volume Two: Classic Horror Stories from Europe and the United States 1973-00-00 ed. Peter Haining Penguin Books (US) 0-14-003766-7   506
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 Peter Fluck  
Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance, 1765-1840 1973-08-30 ed. Peter Haining Penguin Books 0-14-003719-5 £0.60 512
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  
Gothic Tales of Terror, Volume Two: Classic Horror Stories from Europe and the United States 1974-00-00 ed. Peter Haining Penguin Books (US) 0-14-003766-7 $2.95 506
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 Peter Fluck  
Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre 1976-00-00 ed. Les Daniels Charles Scribner's Sons 0-684-14624-X $12.95 x+
271
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Lee Brown Coye Checkmark
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories 1980-06-00 Washington Irving Airmont Books (Airmont Classics #50) 0-8049-0050-7 $1.25 190
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 Checkmark
50 Great American Short Stories 1980-08-00 ed. Milton Crane Bantam Books (Bantam Literature) 0-553-14528-2 $2.95 x+
502
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  
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New 1981-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday 0-385-18506-5 $13.95 xviii+
652
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Edward Gorey  
Washington Irving's Tales of the Supernatural 1982-00-00 Washington Irving Stemmer House 0-916144-64-X $17.95 307
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll R. W. Alley  
Washington Irving's Tales of the Supernatural 1982-00-00 Washington Irving Stemmer House 0-916144-65-8 $9.95 307
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 R. W. Alley  
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New 1982-05-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday / SFBC 5905 $6.98 xviii+
652
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Edward Gorey Checkmark
Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance, 1765-1840 1983-00-00 ed. Peter Haining Penguin Books 0-14-003719-5 £3.50 506
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 Barbara Lofthouse Checkmark
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century 1983-05-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Beaufort Books 0-8253-0128-9 $16.95 368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Great Ghost Stories 1985-00-00 ed. Betty Ann Schwartz Little Simon 0-671-60179-2 $6.95 xiii+
177
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth James Warhola  
Great Ghost Stories 1985-00-00 ed. Betty Ann Schwartz Julian Messner 0-671-60622-0   xiii+
177
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth James Warhola  
Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories 1986-09-00 ed. Charles Keeping Blackie 0-216-92012-4 £8.95 142
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories 1986-10-00 ed. Charles Keeping Peter Bedrick Books 0-87226-096-8 $14.95 142
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Charles Keeping Checkmark
Anthology of Fear 1988-12-00 ed. uncredited Marshall Cavendish Partworks 1-85435-117-6 £3.95 368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Back from the Dead 1991-03-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh DAW Books (DAW Collectors #845) 0-88677-472-1 $4.99 364
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 Jim Warren Checkmark
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1993-00-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Al Sarrantonio Barnes & Noble Books 1-56619-056-8 $7.95 496
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Jack Eckstein Checkmark
A Classic Collection of Haunting Ghost Stories 1993-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Little, Brown UK 0-316-90565-8 £15.99 xvi+
381
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1994-04-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Al Sarrantonio Michael O'Mara Books 1-85479-958-4 £14.99 496
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Jack Eckstein  
A Classic Collection of Haunting Ghost Stories 1994-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Warner Books UK 0-7515-0968-X £5.99 xvi+
381
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 Ashley Pearce  
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1995-00-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Al Sarrantonio Barnes & Noble Books 1-56619-923-9 $4.98 496
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 Jack Eckstein Checkmark
Selected Ghost Stories 1996-11-00 ed. Giles Gordon Bloomsbury 0-7475-2914-0 £10.95 232
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Jeff Fisher (artist)  
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1997-00-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Al Sarrantonio Barnes & Noble Books 1-56619-923-9 $4.98 496
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 Jack Eckstein  
Masters of the Macabre 1999-00-00 ed. uncredited Book-of-the-Month Club 0-9650769-7-0   128
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  
Dread #10, Winter 2000 2000-01-00 ed. Bill Hughes Rampant Moose Publishing   $3.00 56
octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
 mag D. A. Kellough  
One Dark Night: 13 Masterpieces of the Macabre 2000-09-00 ed. Kathleen Blease Ballantine Books 0-345-44044-7 $10.00 xiii+
206
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
Classic Horror Stories: Sixteen Legendary Stories of the Supernatural 2003-00-00 ed. Charles A. Coulombe The Lyons Press 1-59228-200-8 $9.95 xiv+
333
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  
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 2003-00-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Al Sarrantonio Sterling Publishing 1-4027-0975-7 $12.95 496
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  
Famous Ghost Stories 2004-08-30 ed. J. Walker McSpadden Fredonia Books 1-4101-0687-X $15.99 316
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  
Tales of a Traveller 2004-09-23 Washington Irving Project Gutenberg 13514    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 coll  
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre 2007-06-25 ed. Stephen Jones Fall River Press 978-0-7607-9123-3   xxvi+
354
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Checkmark
American Supernatural Tales 2007-10-02 ed. S. T. Joshi Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 978-0-14-310504-6 $17.00 xxxiv+
477
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 Hans Neleman Checkmark
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps 2009-00-00 ed. Peter Straub The Library of America (The Library of America #196) 978-1-59853-047-6 $35.00 xv+
746
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Andy Kerry , MIchelle Kerry Checkmark
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Macabre Tales 2010-00-00 Washington Irving Fall River Press 978-1-4351-2505-6   viii+
327
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll  
The Book of the Living Dead 2010-10-00 ed. John Richard Stephens Berkley Books 978-0-425-23706-9 $15.00 xi+
399
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.
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The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology 2011-09-23 ed. Andrew Barger Bottletree Classics 978-1-933747-33-0 $17.99 218
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.
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The Vampyre and Other Macabre Tales 2012-00-00 ed. uncredited The Folio Society   £ xv+
207+
[6]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Anne Yvonne Gilbert Checkmark
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories 2012-06-08 Washington Irving Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions) 978-0-486-13100-9 $4.00  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
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The Big Book of Ghost Stories 2012-09-18 ed. Otto Penzler Vintage Crime/Black Lizard / Vintage Books 978-0-307-47449-0 $25.00 xii+
833
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 Gregg Kulick Checkmark
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 020 2013-04-18 ed. LibriVox LibriVox      
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
 anth  
American Supernatural Tales 2013-10-03 ed. S. T. Joshi Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Horror) 978-0-14-312237-1 $25.00 xliv+
467
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Paul Buckley Checkmark
Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror 2014-00-00 ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz Fall River Press 978-1-4351-5721-7 $7.98 666
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Shutterstock.com  
The Fifth Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Haunts 2015-01-22 ed. John Gregory Betancourt Wildside Press 978-1-4794-0480-3 $0.99  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories date unknown Washington Irving Minster Classics 13-453 £0.95 318
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.
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Rod Serling's Devils and Demons date unknown ed. Rod Serling Bantam Books Q2580 $1.25 viii+
212
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 Checkmark
American Supernatural Tales date unknown ed. S. T. Joshi Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 978-0-14-310504-6 $16.00 xxxiii+
477
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 Hans Neleman Checkmark
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories date unknown ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Al Sarrantonio Barnes & Noble Books 1-56619-056-8   496
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Jack Eckstein Checkmark
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories date unknown ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Al Sarrantonio Barnes & Noble Books 1-56619-056-8   496
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Jack Eckstein Checkmark
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