Short Stories by Stephen R. Donaldson

Daughter of Regals, and Other Tales
Ballantine Books, 1985

Daughter of Regals, and Other Tales

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

Copy edited version, 500 pages, with four versions of the title story, and one version of the introduction (1984).

Notable Editions:

New York: Ballantine Books, [1984].

A Del Rey Book.

Book Club Edition.

New York: Ballantine Books, [1985].

A Del Rey Book.

First paperback edition, April 1985.

Daughter of Regals

Illustrated by David Cherry. West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1984].

One of 1075 copies of this story, signed by the author and illustrator.

Gilden-Fire

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

The original text and the revised version, 117 pages (1981).

Notable Editions:

San Francisco: California and Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1981. Illustrations by Stephen E. Fabian.

First edition. This story is derived from an incident originally written as part of The Illearth War but never used in the novel. The author describes the evolution of the story in his "Foreword" to this book.

San Francisco: California and Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, [1981].

Number 203 of 270 copies, signed by the author.

San Francisco: California and Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, [1981].

Book Club Edition.

London: Collins, 1983. Illustrations by Peter Goodfellow.

First English edition.

The Lady in White

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

First version, 30 pages (1976?), and second version, 44 pages (March 1977). This story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February, 1978, and collected in Daughter of Regals, and Other Tales, 1984.

Mythological Beast

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

First version, 20 pages, with the title A Mythological Beast (1976?), and second version, 27 pages (March 1977). This story appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , January 1979, and collected in Daughter of Regals, and Other Tales , 1984. It also appeared in Unicorns, a collection of stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. New York: Ace Books, 1982.

Animal Lover

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

First version, 72 pages (April-May 1977), second version, 95 pages (April-May 1977), and the final version, 87 pages (July 1977). This story was published in Steller, No.4, New York, Del Rey/Ballantine, 1978, and collected in Daughter of Regals, and Other Tales, 1984.

The Conqueror Worm

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

Three versions (September 1983). Appeared in The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, edited by Charles L. Grant. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1983], 37-50.

Unworthy of the Angel

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

Final version, 54 pages, accompanied by an early draft (1983). Appeared in Nine Visions: A Book of Fantasies, edited by Andrea LaSonde Melrose. New York: The Seabury Press, 1983, 135-173 and collected in Daughter of Regals, and Other Tales, 1984.

What Makes Us Human

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

Version, 44 pages (1983?), accompanied by another draft, 55 pages (1983?). Appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1984, 129-157. Collected in Daughter of Regals, and Other Tales, 1984.

Ser Visal's Tale

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

Three versions, 78 pages (1984).

The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed: A Fable

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

Final version accompanied by earlier draft, 30 pages (1985). Appeared in World Tales, November 1985.

Reave the Just

Manuscripts (held by KSU Special Collections and Archives):

One draft, 57 pages (1989). Appeared in After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Martin H. Greenburg. New York: Tom Doherty Association., Inc., 1992.


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