NMLP P-043592 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Dark Entries
Robert Aickman · Collins, London · 1964
The UK Collins issue of 1964 is the true first, and the census claim is correct: there was no contemporary US edition. American readers reached the contents only decades later, via Tartarus Press's The Collected Strange Stories (1999) and the Faber reissue of 2014 — both first thus, neither a first of Dark Entries.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043592 for "Dark Entries" by Robert Aickman (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043592, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).