The Man Who Liked Dickens

Overview:

• Title: The Man Who Liked Dickens
• Author: Evelyn Waugh
• Year: 1933
• Type: Short Fiction

Notes:

First published in September of 1933, this is a somewhat macabre short story by the noted British satirist that was later incorporated almost word for word into his 1933 novel "A Handful of Dust". It is about an upper-class British artist who becomes lost in a South American jungle and is in no way a work of speculative fiction. It is included in the ISFDB only because it was once reprinted in an issue of Fantastic magazine.

Editions/Publications:

• 1933. The Man Who Liked Dickens (September 1933, Evelyn Waugh Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan, $0.25, Magazine)
• 1953. Fantastic, July-August 1953 (1953, Howard Browne, $0.35, 164 pages, Magazine)
• 1961. AHP: Stories for Late at Night (1961, Alfred Hitchcock Random House, $5.95, 469 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1962. Best Tales of Terror (1962, Edmund Crispin Faber & Faber, 16/-, 255 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1962. AHP: 12 Stories for Late at Night (1962, Alfred Hitchcock Dell, Catalog ID: #9178, $0.50, 223 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
• 1965. AHP: Stories for Late at Night, Part II (1965, Alfred Hitchcock Pan, Catalog ID: #X456, 3/6, 237 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
• 1978. Terrors, Torments and Traumas (1978, Helen Hoke Nashville: Thomas Nelson, ISBN-10: 0840766009, $6.95, 160 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)

Resources:

• Wikipedia article on The Man Who Liked Dickens