Perceval Gibbon
(1879–1926)
Welsh author and journalist. Wrote for the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, as well as for other publications. He is best remembered for his short stories, the best of which often contained an ironic twist at the end.

Works

Individual short stories

  • Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases, aka: Vrouw Grobelaar's Leading Cases (1905) PG
    • Unto The Third Generation
    • The Dream-Face
    • The Avenger Of Blood
    • The Hands Of The Pitiful Woman
    • Piet Naude's Trek
    • Like Unto Like
    • Counting The Colors
    • The King Of The Baboons
    • Morder Drift
    • A Good End
    • Vasco's Sweetheart
    • The Peruvian
    • Tagalash
    • The Home Kraal
    • The Sacrifice
    • The Coward
    • Her Own Story
  • The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories (1913) PG
    • The Second-Class Passenger (first published in McClure's Magazine, Oct 1906)
    • The Sense Of Climax
    • The Trader Of Last Notch (first published in McClure's Magazine, Sep 1906)
    • The Murderer
    • The Victim
    • Between The Lights
    • The Master
    • "Parisienne" (first published in Harper's's Magazine, Jan 1911)
    • Lola (first published in Harper's's Magazine, Jan 1909)
    • The Poor In Heart
    • The Man Who Knew (First published in McClure's Magazine, Jan 1907)
    • The Hidden Way
    • The Strange Patient
    • The Captain's Arm
    • The Widower
  • Those Who Smiled; and Eleven Other Stories (1920) PG
    • Those Who Smiled
    • The Dago
    • Wood-Ladies
    • A Man Before The Mast
    • The Girl
    • The Breadwinner
    • "Plain German"
    • Alms And The Man
    • The Darkened Path
    • Miss Pilgrim's Progress
    • The Connoisseur
    • The Day Of Omens

Others

  • "Ambush," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Nov 1912
  • "The Bad Companions," in The Saturday Evening Post Nov 27, 1920
  • "Bailey's Experiment" in Collier's, Nov 7, 1908
  • "The Buried Anchor," in McClure's Magazine Sep 1908
  • "A Citizen of the Roads," in Harper's Weekly, Jun 21, 1913
  • "The Charmed Life," in Collier's, Oct 9, 1915
  • "The Darkened Path," in Harper's Weekly, Jan 3, 1914
  • "The Dice," in McClure's Magazine Apr 1907
  • "The Eleventh Hour," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Feb 1907
  • "In the Dark Hour," in McClure's Magazine May 1908
  • "The Iron Star," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Aug 1913
  • "The King of the Baboons," in McClure's Magazine Aug 1908 (included in Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases, 1905)
  • "Manasseh," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Sep 1908
  • "The Master," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Dec 1912
  • "The Meagre Life," in McClure's Magazine Oct 1907
  • "Money's Worth," in The Saturday Evening Post 1920
  • "The Murderer," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Aug 1912
  • "The Next Vacancy," in The Saturday Evening Post Aug 13, 1910
  • '"Parisienne",' in Harper's Monthly Magazine, 1910
  • "Spy and Superspy" (non-fiction?) in Collier's, Sep 25, 1915
  • "Statistics ," in The Saturday Evening Post Dec 18, 1920
  • "The Strange Patient," in Colliers weekly, Nov 27, 1909
  • "The Weaver's Son," in McClure's Magazine Sep 1907


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1925.


The author died in 1926, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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