Title: The Third Drug

Title: The Third Drug Title Record # 1013404
Author: E. Nesbit
Date: 1908-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: archive.org
Language: English

Note: First appeared in The Strand Magazine, February 1908 as "The Third Drug", as by "E. Bland", according to a review in the New York Review of Science Fiction and from "The Feminine Future", by Mike Ashley.

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Year	Title
1908	The Third Drug [as by E. Bland]
1908	The Third Drug [as by Edith Nesbit]
1908	The Three Drugs

Year	Language	Title
1985^ⓘTranslated by Jadwiga P. Westrup.	Swedish	De tre drogerna [as by Edith Nesbit]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Strand Magazine, February 1908	1908-02-00	ed. Editors of The Strand Magazine	George Newnes			120	octavo^?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	mag
Fear	1910-07-00	E. Nesbit	Stanley Paul & Co.		6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	318	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Before Armageddon	1975-10-00	ed. Michael Moorcock	W. H. Allen	0-491-01794-4	£3.00^?£: UK pound	vii+ 180	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Before Armageddon	1976-00-00	ed. Michael Moorcock	Star	0-352-39784-5	£0.60^?£: UK pound	vii+ 180	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Peter Jones
Stories of the Occult and Other Tales of Mystery	1978-10-00	ed. Denys Val Baker	William Kimber	0-7183-0096-3	£4.25^?£: UK pound	208	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
E. Nesbit's Tales of Terror	1983-00-00	E. Nesbit	Methuen	0-416-28840-5	£5.50^?£: UK pound	126	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard Sparks
E. Nesbit's Tales of Terror	1985-00-00	E. Nesbit	Magnet	0-416-51830-3	£^?£: UK pound	126	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Richard Sparks
Edith Nesbits skräckhistorier	1985-00-00	Edith Nesbit	AWE/Geber	91-20-07280-5	skr 67^?skr: Swedish krona (crown)	136	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard Sparks
In the Dark: Tales of Terror	1988-10-13	E. Nesbit	Equation	1-85336-080-5	£3.50^?£: UK pound	176	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
In the Dark	2000-06-15	E. Nesbit	Ash-Tree Press	1-55310-005-0	C$56.00^?C$: Canadian dollar	xv+ 223	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard Lamb
Great Tales of Terror	2002-03-12	ed. S. T. Joshi	Dover Publications	0-486-41938-X	$12.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 298	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Theodore Kittelson
The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror	2006-07-05	E. Nesbit	Wordsworth Editions (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)	1-84022-531-9	$^?$: US dollar	255	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Paul Cézanne^?Paul Cezanne
The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers	2009-00-00	ed. Mike Ashley	Peter Owen	978-0-7206-1335-3	£9.99^?£: UK pound	245	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Arthur Watts
In the Dark	2012-05-07	E. Nesbit	Ash-Tree Press	978-1-55310-250-2	$6.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Richard Lamb
The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers	2015-02-17	ed. Mike Ashley	Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions)	978-0-486-80340-1	$4.50^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers	2015-03-18	ed. Mike Ashley	Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions)	978-0-486-79023-7	$4.50^?$: US dollar	viii+ 228	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Horror Stories	2016-09-29	E. Nesbit	Penguin Books (Penguin Worlds)	978-0-241-26177-4	£8.99^?£: UK pound	viii+ 194	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	La Boca
Horror Stories	2016-09-29	E. Nesbit	Penguin Books (Penguin Worlds)	978-0-241-97723-1	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	La Boca
From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit	2018-01-00	E. Nesbit	Hippocampus Press (Classics of Gothic Horror #2)	978-1-61498-214-2	$20.00^?$: US dollar	263	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Aeron Alfrey
In the Dark	2018-02-06	E. Nesbit	HarperCollins (Collins Chillers)	978-0-00-824901-4	$12.99^?$: US dollar	320	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Mike Topping
From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit	2018-04-27	E. Nesbit	Hippocampus Press (Classics of Gothic Horror #2)	978-1-61498-225-8	$6.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Aeron Alfrey

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Reviews

Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years
Review by Mike Barrett (2014) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 2014