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Title: The Waxwork Title Record # 981855
Author: A. M. Burrage
Date: 1931-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: archive.org
Language: English
User Rating: None. Including variants and translations: 7.00 (1 vote) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: horror (1), wax museum (1), terror (1), journalist (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1931 The Waxwork [as by Ex-Private X]
Year Language Title
1959Translated by Max Schuchart
Dutch Het wassenbeeldenspel
1961Translated by Maria von Schweinitz
German Die Wachsfigur
1965Translated by Peter Naujack
German Die Wachsfigur [as by Alfred McLelland Burrage]
1968Translated by Nini Brunt
Dutch 'Mes goed meneer?'
1975Translated by Odette Ferry.
French Figures de cire
1982Translated by Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe
French Figures de cire [as by Alfred McLelland Burrage]
1984Translated by Tilly Schel
Dutch Het Wassenbeeldenmuseum
1992Translated by Александр Боргардт / Alexandr Borgardt.
Russian [as by ]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Tales of Terror 1943-10-00 ed. Boris Karloff World Publishing Co. (A Tower Mystery)  
$0.49?$: US dollar
317
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Short Stories 1948-00-00 ed. Henry Christ, Jerome Shostak Oxford Book Co.  
$2.08?$: US dollar
429
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV 1957-00-00 ed. Alfred Hitchcock Simon & Schuster  
$3.95?$: US dollar
372
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV 1960-00-00 ed. Alfred Hitchcock Pan Books (Pan Giant) X71
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).
378
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 S. R. Boldero  
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery 1962-00-00 ed. Alfred Hitchcock Random House     vii+
206
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Fred Banbery Checkmark
Between the Minute and the Hour: Stories of the Unseen 1967-00-00 A. M. Burrage Herbert Jenkins  
21/-?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
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV 1967-00-00 ed. Alfred Hitchcock Pan Books M251   378
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 S. R. Boldero  
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery 1968-00-00 ed. Alfred Hitchcock Puffin PS319
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).
223
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 Barry Wilkinson Checkmark
Dr. Caligari's Black Book 1968-09-00 ed. Peter Haining W. H. Allen 0-491-00281-5
21/-?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).
190
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Ten Tales Calculated To Give You Shudders 1972-00-00 ed. Ross R. Olney Golden Press / Western Publishing Company (Whitman Classics) 0-307-01617-X   212
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Gordon Johnson Checkmark
The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories 1972-01-00 ed. Mary Danby Beagle Books 95199
$0.95?$: US dollar
189
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
Haunts! Haunts! Haunts! 1977-00-00 ed. Helen Hoke Franklin Watts 0-531-00098-2   191
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Charles Keeping  
Spectres, Spooks and Shuddery Shades 1977-00-00 ed. Helen Hoke Franklin Watts 0-85166-620-5
£3.50?£: UK pound
191
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Ten Tales Calculated To Give You Shudders 1979-00-00 ed. Ross R. Olney Golden Press / Western Publishing Company 0-307-21617-9
$1.25?$: US dollar
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 Hal Frenck  
Great Ghost Stories 1985-00-00 ed. Betty Ann Schwartz Little Simon 0-671-60179-2
$6.95?$: US dollar
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  
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories 1995-10-26 ed. J. A. Cuddon Penguin Audio 0-14-086153-X
£7.99?£: UK pound
 
audio cassette?Cassette tape
anth  
Someone in the Room: Strange Tales Old and New 1997-11-28 A. M. Burrage Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-38-9
C$53.00?C$: Canadian dollar
xiii+
304
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Douglas Walters Checkmark
Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV 2002-00-00 ed. Alfred Hitchcock Amereon House  
$3.95?$: US dollar
viii+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Waxwork & Other Stories 2013-12-03 A. M. Burrage Burrage Publishing 978-1-78394-500-9
$13.99?$: US dollar
118
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  
Dreamscapes Into Darkness 2015-04-24 ed. Alex Scully Firbolg Publishing 978-1-5076-3774-6
$12.99?$: US dollar
390
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  
Dreamscapes Into Darkness 2015-04-24 ed. Alex Scully Firbolg Publishing  
$5.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery date unknown ed. Alfred Hitchcock Random House 0-394-81226-3   vii+
206
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Fred Banbery Checkmark
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery date unknown ed. Alfred Hitchcock Random House 0-394-91226-8   vii+
206
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Fred Banbery Checkmark
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