Leiningen Versus the Ants (1938) [Short Story]
by Carl Stephenson
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A stubborn plantation owner in Brazil refuses to surrender his life's work to a twenty-square mile sea of ants, insisting that his brain can outwit everything they can throw at him.
First published in Esquire magazine, December 1938.
Also appears in:
- The Bedroom Esquire, Tudor 1940
- The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure, Berkley 1957
- The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories, Pan 1960
- 30 Stories to Remember, Doubleday 1962
- 21 Great Stories, Mentor 1969
- Great Adventure Stories, Lion 1973
- The Penguin Book of Horror Stories, Penguin 1984
Original title: Leiningen Versus the Ants
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Animals Run Rampant, Werewolves
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Second Pan Book of Horror Stories, the (1960) [Anthology]
Authors: Bram Stoker
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Agatha Christie
, H. G. Wells
, Stanley Ellin
, Philip MacDonald
, Geoffrey Household
, Carl Stephenson
, William Sansom
, Oscar Cook
, George Langelaan
, Guy Preston
, Vernon Routh
, Stephen Hall
21 Great Stories (1969) [Anthology]
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, Ambrose Bierce
, Ray Bradbury
, Arthur Conan Doyle
, James Joyce
, John Steinbeck
, Mark Twain
, Luigi Pirandello
, Jack London
, Lord Dunsany
, Guy de Maupassant
, Saki
, Max Brand
, Wilbur Daniel Steele
, James Thurber
, Frank R. Stockton
, Kaatje Hurlbut
, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
, C. D. B. Bryan
, Carl Stephenson
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