The latest issue of Schlock! Webzine includes an oft reprinted copy of my second professional sale back in 1971, a short story called "The Farmhouse", which was first published in New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural edited by David A. Sutton for Sphere Books. This anthology was reprinted in 2013 by Dave's Shadow Publishing as Horror Under the Tombstone and was again reprinted last year in New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural Omnibus by PS Publishing.
The story's first reprint was in Stuart David Schiff's magazine Whispers in 1973. Then in the hard cover anthology First World Fantasy Awards published by Doubleday in 1977, edited by Gahan Wilson.
A German version of Dave Sutton's anthology, titled Solo fur einen Kannibalen appeared in 1976, with my story retitled "Der Eroberer".
Two unauthorized Italian reprints occurred in 1989 and 1995 - Horror Story 2 from Garden Editoriale, and Horror Story n. 16 from the same publisher.
I reprinted it myself in the collection Their Cramped Dark World (Hazardous Press, then Parallel Universe Publications) in 2015.
It is also, of course, included in my The Collected SF, Fantasy & Horror Stories of David A. Riley Volume 1 - 1970-2010.
A strangely popular story.

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