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Original title: The Bottle Imp
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy
Fiction→ Horror

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Black Water (1983) [Anthology]
      Authors: M. R. James , Edgar Allan Poe , Ursula K. Le Guin , Rudyard Kipling , Charles Dickens , Ray Bradbury , E. M. Forster , Graham Greene , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Henry James , Franz Kafka , D. H. Lawrence , Alexander Pushkin , Jules Verne , H. G. Wells , Edith Wharton , Oscar Wilde , Tennessee Williams , Lord Dunsany , Robert Louis Stevenson , Vladimir Nabokov , W. Somerset Maugham , Daphne du Maurier , Julio Cortázar , Italo Calvino , Jorge Luis Borges , O. Henry , John Collier , Isak Dinesen , Hermann Hesse , Saki , Charles Williams , W. W. Jacobs , Ryunosuke Akutagawa , Joanne Greenberg , Walter de la Mare , Howard Fast , Max Beerbohm , Hans Christian Andersen , Manuel Mujica Láinez , I. A. Ireland , Stephen Vincent Benét , Hilaire Belloc , L.P. Hartley , Alex Comfort , Francis King , Marguerite Yourcenar , Junichiro Tanizaki , Robert Hichens , Jean Cocteau , Flann O'Brien , David Garnett , Bruno Schulz , Lafcadio Hearn , Juan Manuel , João Guimarães Rosa , Silvina Ocampo , Léon Bloy , Giovanni Papini , Pedro Antonio de Alarcón , Virgilio Piñera , Brian Moore , André Pieyre de Mandiargues , Cynthia Ozick , Marco Denevi , J. B. Priestley , Horacio Quiroga , Marcel Aymé , George Hitchcock , Adolfo Bioy Casares
     Magical Wishes (1986) [Anthology]
      Authors: Isaac Asimov , Ray Bradbury , Robert Sheckley , Robert Louis Stevenson , Bill Pronzini , Gordon R. Dickson , Jack Finney , Edward D. Hoch , Fredric Brown , W. W. Jacobs , Charlotte Armstrong , Marvin Kaye , Peter Phillips , Zenna Henderson , J.F. Bone , Edward P. Hughes
     Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Edgar Allan Poe , Rudyard Kipling , Charles Dickens , Ambrose Bierce , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Henry James , Walter Scott , H. G. Wells , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Robert Louis Stevenson , Honoré de Balzac , Ivan Turgenev , Guy de Maupassant , Nikolai Gogol , Jean Lorrain , E. T. A. Hoffmann , Hans Christian Andersen , Vernon Lee , Joseph von Eichendorff , Auguste Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Nikolai (N.S.) Leskov , Jan Potocki , Philarète Chasles , Gérard de Nerval , Théophile Gautier , Prosper Mérimée
     Treasury of the Fantastic, the (2001) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lewis Carroll , M. R. James , Edgar Allan Poe , Rudyard Kipling , Emily Dickinson , Ambrose Bierce , George Gordon Byron , E. M. Forster , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Henry James , John Keats , Edith Nesbit , Mary Shelley , Alfred Tennyson , Mark Twain , H. G. Wells , Edith Wharton , Oscar Wilde , Virginia Woolf , William Butler Yeats , Lord Dunsany , Algernon Blackwood , Robert W. Chambers , Kenneth Grahame , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Robert Louis Stevenson , Washington Irving , A.E. Housman , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , W. W. Jacobs , James Hogg , George MacDonald , Laurence Housman , Frank R. Stockton , Walter de la Mare , Christina Rossetti , Lucy Lane Clifford , Max Beerbohm , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Kenneth Morris , Margaret Oliphant , William Austin , Edward Lear , Richard Middleton , I. A. Ireland
     13 Best Horror Stories of All Time, the (2002) [Anthology]
      Authors: M. R. James , Bram Stoker , Edgar Allan Poe , H. P. Lovecraft , Shirley Jackson , H. G. Wells , Algernon Blackwood , Arthur Machen , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Robert Louis Stevenson , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , W. W. Jacobs , Oliver Onions
     Book of Wizards, the (2004) [Anthology]
      Authors: L. Frank Baum , William Shakespeare , Ursula K. Le Guin , Edith Nesbit , C. S. Lewis , Patricia A. McKillip , Robert Louis Stevenson , Patricia C. Wrede , Tom McGowen , Diane Duane , Andrew Lang , Evelyn Sharp , Megan Whalen Turner , Elizabeth Jamison Hodges , Cyril Birch , Frances Carpenter