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Genre Science Fiction / Horror
Type Short story
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Originally written as by Rod Keen (pseudonym / fictional author).
After the first publication the story got a slightly rewritten ending and published under the better known ttitle as: "The Phantom of the Sewers".
DESCRIPTION:
There seems to be a monster in the sewers, that already has killed some sewer workers in a very awful way. During their shift Red McCune and his college find a killed college, completely dismembered. What or who is this monster?
 
PUBLICATION HISTORY
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24 Publications
 
US

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FIRST PUBLICATION
in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Edward L. Ferman
Cornwall, CT: Mercury Press
Volume 55, No. 2, Whole No. 327
magazine (19×13,5cm)
August 1978
164
$ 1.25 (£ 0.75)
Alex Schomburg
Written under the peudonym of Rod Keen.


Alex Schomburg
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-04208-1
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
11/1979 (1st)
not dated [= -/1980] (2nd)
264
$ 2.25
not credited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Don Ivan Punchatz
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
Boston, MA: Gregg Press
The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series
ISBN 0-8398-2618-4
hardcover [no dustjacket] (21×14cm)
01/1981
xiv + 264
$ 15.95
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With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-04208-1
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
02/1981 (3rd)
04/1981 (4th)
09/1981 (5th)
unknown (6th)
264
$ 2.25
not credited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Don Ivan Punchatz
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-06487-5
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
04/1983 (7th)
10/1983 (8th)
01/1984 (9th)
264
$ 2.75
not credited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Don Ivan Punchatz
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
New York, NY: Ace Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-441-72886-3
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
11/1987
264
$ 3.50
not credited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Don Ivan Punchatz
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
Christopher Paul Carey
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
01/2008 [Trade edition.]
03/2008 [Numbered, signed, slipcased edition.]
325
$ 38.00 | $ 125.00
Bob Eggleton
With an introduction by the editor.

Bob Eggleton
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
Christopher Paul Carey
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
10/2008 [Lettered, signed, traycased edition.]
340
$ 300.00
Bob Eggleton
With an introduction by the editor.

Bob Eggleton
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
New York, NY: Open Road Integrated Media
ISBN 978-1-5040-4609-1
ebook
08/2017
(381)
$ 6.77
uncredited
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
St Albans, Herts: Granada / Panther Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
02/1981 (1st)
303
£ 1.50
Bruce Pennington
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Bruce Pennington
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
London: Grafton Books
Panther Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
12/1986 (2nd)
303
£ 2.50
Bruce Pennington
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Bruce Pennington
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
London: Grafton Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
-/1988 (3rd)
303
£ 2.95
Bruce Pennington
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Bruce Pennington
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"The Phantom of the Sewers"
in Riverworld and other Stories
London: Grafton Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
not dated [= -/1989] (4th)
303
£ 3.50
Bruce Pennington
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Bruce Pennington
ITALY
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Italian: "Il Fantasma delle fogne"
in Il mondo di Philip José Farmer
Milan: Nord
SF, Narrativa d'Anticipazione (24)
no ISBN [later: ISBN 88-429-0629-8]
trade paperback (19,5×12,5cm)
04/1981
ix + 193
L 3.500
Roberta Rambelli
Michael Whelan
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Michael Whelan
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Spanish: "El fantasma de las cloacas"
in El Mundo del Rio y otras historias
Barcelona: Ultramar
Bolsillo B-75, Ciencia Ficcion-12
ISBN 84-7386-353-4
paperback (17,5×11,5cm)
10/1984 (1st)
03/1989 (2nd)
329
not priced
Victor Conill
Garcés/Castells
With a foreword to the story by Farmer.

Garcés/Castells
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Swedish: "Kloakernas vålnad"
in Efter King Kongs fall
Stockholm: Delta Förlags AB
Science fiction ABC
ISBN 91-7228-276-2
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
-/1981
248
not priced
Karin Malmsjö
(of PJF)

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