Title: The Decoy Title Record # 63839
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Date: 1921-00-00
Variant Title of: The Decoy (by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Willows and Other Queer Tales	1925-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	Collins (Pocket Classics)		2/-?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).	318	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Strange Stories	1929-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	William Heinemann		7/6?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).	745	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Strange Stories	1931-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	William Heinemann		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).	745	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Willows and Other Queer Tales	1934-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	Collins		1/3?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).	318	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Mystery and Detection, May 1935	1935-05-00	ed. Editors of Mystery and Detection	World's Work		1/-?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).	128	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
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural	1949-10-00	Algernon Blackwood	Peter Nevill		12/6?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).	426	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural	1952-04-00	Algernon Blackwood	Peter Nevill			426	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural	1965-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	Spring Books	T 1441		426	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural	1966-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	Spring Books	T 1441		426	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural	1969-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	Spring Books	0-600-03850-5		426	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood	1973-00-00	Algernon Blackwood	Causeway Books	0-88356-020-8	$7.95?$: US dollar	x+ 526	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Strange Stories	1976-12-00	Algernon Blackwood	Arno Press (Supernatural and Occult Fiction)	0-405-08114-6	$42.00?$: US dollar	745	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Best Ghost Stories	1977-06-00	ed. uncredited	Hamlyn	0-600-38242-7	£4.95?£: UK pound	750	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural	2008-01-12	Algernon Blackwood	House of Stratus	978-0-7551-1461-0	£9.99?£: UK pound	330	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
A House A-Haunt: Classic Stories of Haunted Houses, Horrific Rooms, and Other Ghastly Abodes	2019-10-05	ed. Chad Arment	Coachwhip Publications	978-1-61646-482-0	$19.95?$: US dollar	616	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
Horror Stories	2023-08-22	Algernon Blackwood	Flame Tree Press (Gothic Fantasy)	978-1-80417-709-9	£20.00?£: UK pound	480	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll

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Reviews

• Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction