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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- “[The Light-House]”
— 1849,
manuscript — Text 01 (unfinished “Griswold” roll manuscript of 4 pages,
brown
ink on pale blue paper) (Mabbott text A)
Reprints:
Because it was essentially unknown until 1924, and the
manuscript is incomplete, this tale has not been widely reprinted or
anthologized.
- “The Light-house” — 1909 — The
Life of
Edgar Allan
Poe, II, p. 397-399 (This is the first time the tale was printed,
but Woodberry only had access to three of the surviving four pages. The
first page had been sold at auction on April 11, 1896, while the
remaining
three pages were kept by the Griswold family.)
- “The Lighthouse” — April 25, 1942 — Notes
and
Queries
(London), pp. 226-227 (This is the first printing of the full
manuscript.
The article was written, and Poe's text edited, by Thomas Ollive
Mabbott.)
- “The Light-House” — 1951 — Selected Poetry and
Prose of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (New York:
Random House, The Modern Library), pp. 344-345
- “The Lighthouse” — 1978 — The Edgar Allan
Poe Scrapbook, ed. Peter Haining (New York: Schocken Books), pp.
111-112 (reprinted from Mabbott's 1942 article in Notes and Queries)
- “The Light-House” — 1978 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe -- vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. Thomas
Ollive Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(3:1388-1392) (Includes a photographic reproduction of the full
manuscript, from the Berg Collection of the NYPL, and the Houghton
Library of Harvard University.)
- “The Light-House” — 1978 — Quinn, Patrick F., ed.,
Poetry and Tales,
New
York: The
Library
of America
- “[The Light-House]” — 1993 — Lighthouse Horrors:
Tales of Adventure, Suspense and the Supernatural, eds. Charles G.
Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg and Jenny-Lynn Azarian
(Down East Books) (Includes Poe's story as well as tales by Ray
Bradbury, Rudyard Kipling and others)
- “[The Light-House]” — 2006 — Poe's Lighthouse:
All New Collaborations with Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Christopher Conlon
(Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications), pp. 11-13.
Associated Material and Special versions:
- “The Lighthouse” — (completed by Robert Bloch)
- “The Lighthouse” — January-February 1953 — Fantastic,
Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 147-165 (with an illustration by Virgil
Finlay) (includes a facsimile of the first page of the
manuscript, from the Berg Collection, NYPL)
- “The Lighthouse” — 1969 — The Man Who Called
Himself Poe,
ed. Sam Moskowitz (New York: Doubleday & Co.), pp.
189-206 (This collection also includes Bloch's own story "The Man
Who Collected Poe," pp. 104-122.)
- “The Lighthouse” — August 1982 — Twilight Zone
Magazine, pp. 29-35 (illustrated by Jose Reyes)
- “Le Phare” — 1973 — L'Amérique Fantastique,
Verviers: Gérard/Marabout (French translation by Jacques
Finné of Poe's story, as completed by Robert Bloch)
- Poe's Lighthouse: All New Collaborations with
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Christopher Conlon (Baltimore: Cemetery Dance
Publications), 2006 (A collection of 23 variations on Poe's tale by
different authors. Most of these "collaborations" are quite free, and
some bear little resemblance to Poe's original. In addition to the
regular edition, a special tray-cased leather edition of 52 copies was
issued, with a satin ribbon page marker and extra artwork.)
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