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Original title: Nunc Dimittis
Original languages: English

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This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Dodd Mead Gallery of Horror, the (1983) [Anthology]
      Authors: Stephen Donaldson , Stephen King , Tanith Lee , Ramsey Campbell , William F. Nolan , Craig Shaw Gardner , Robert Bloch , David Morrell , Theodore Sturgeon , Steve Rasnic Tem , Eric Van Lustbader , Michael Bishop , Chelsea Quinn Yarbro , T.E.D. Klein , Jack Dann , Dennis Etchison , Alan Ryan , Bernard Taylor , John Coyne , Gardner R. Dozois , Joseph Payne Brennan
     Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection, the (1984) [Anthology]
      Authors: George R.R. Martin , Dan Simmons , Tanith Lee , Greg Bear , Bruce Sterling , Kim Stanley Robinson , Poul Anderson , Pat Cadigan , Vernor Vinge , James Tiptree, Jr. , Joe Haldeman , Pat Murphy , Robert Silverberg , Avram Davidson , John Kessel , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , Ian Watson , Jack McDevitt , Jack Dann , R. A. Lafferty , Leigh Kennedy , Rand B. Lee
     Dreams of Dark and Light (1986) [Collection]
      Author: Tanith Lee
     Rivals of Dracula (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Dan Simmons , Tanith Lee , Kevin J. Anderson , F. Paul Wilson , Lawrence Watt-Evans , Robert Bloch , Richard Matheson , Brian Hodge , Patricia Nead (P.N.) Elrod , Kim Newman , Douglas Borton , Edward D. Hoch , Angela Carter , Daniel Ransom , Carole Nelson Douglas , Norman Partridge , Jack Ritchie , Warner Lee , David J. Schow
     Popular Fiction: An Anthology (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Bram Stoker , Edgar Allan Poe , Ursula K. Le Guin , Rudyard Kipling , Stephen King , Agatha Christie , H. P. Lovecraft , Louisa May Alcott , Isaac Asimov , Ambrose Bierce , Ray Bradbury , Edgar Rice Burroughs , Arthur Conan Doyle , Robert A. Heinlein , Dorothy L. Sayers , Mary Shelley , Jules Verne , H. G. Wells , William Gibson , Harlan Ellison , Clive Barker , Jack London , Tanith Lee , Octavia E. Butler , Samuel R. Delany , Dashiell Hammett , Raymond Chandler , Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Ian Fleming , Rosamunde Pilcher , Louis L'Amour , Marcia Muller , Mary Roberts Rinehart , Max Brand , Walter Mosley , Tony Hillerman , Janet Dailey , Rafael Sabatini , Baroness Orczy , H. Rider Haggard , Jayne Ann Krentz , Horace Walpole , Elizabeth Gaskell , Kathleen E. Woodiwiss , Zane Grey , Ray B. Browne , John G. Cawelti , Arthur Asa Berger , Linda Barlow Krentz , Gail Landsman , Ernest Mandel , Jane Tompkins