Title: Never Bet Your Head

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Title: Never Bet Your Head Title Record # 237071
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1841-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note:

First published in the September 1841 Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine with the subtitle "A Moral Tale". Later printings used "A Tale with a Moral" or dropped the subtitle altogether.
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Year	Title
1845^ⓘ 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.	Never Bet the Devil Your Head
1850	Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral
1852	Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral [as by Edgar A. Poe]
1927	Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Moral Tale
1969	Toby Dammit

Year	Language	Title
1901^ⓘTranslated by Hedda Moeller-Bruck [aka Hedda Eulenberg]	German	Hüte dich vor des Teufels Wetten! Eine Geschichte mit einer Moral
1978^ⓘTranslated by Gunnar Gällmo	Swedish	Slå aldrig vad med djävulen
1993	German	Mit dem Teufel ist schlecht wetten
2008^ⓘTranslated by Alain Jaubert, subtitled "Conte avec une morale"	French	Ne pariez jamais votre tête au diable^?Ne pariez jamais votre tete au diable

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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)