Title: The Music on the Hill

Title: The Music on the Hill Title Record # 74132
Author: Saki
Date: 1911-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English

Note: First published in The Chronicles of Clovis, John Lane, 1911.

Synopsis: "A newlywed couple moves to the countryside, on the wife's devising, as she believes it will settle her husband down. She is right, as her husband displays remarkable contentment, but there seems to be something else on their little bit of land. Her husband speaks of the ancient god Pan, and the wife hears a strange flute playing across the hills." (Dione Basseri)

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1957	French	La musique sur la colline
1991^ⓘTranslated by Carla Borrelli and Matteo Puggioni	Italian	La musica sulla collina
1994^ⓘTranslated by Sari Kallioinen and Anita Puumalainen	Finnish	Panin huilu

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Chronicles of Clovis	1911-08-00	Saki	John Lane, The Bodley Head			242	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
A Century of Horror Stories	1935-00-00	ed. Dennis Wheatley	Hutchinson		3/6^?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).	1024	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	1943-05-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	Doubleday, Doran		$3.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xx+ 487	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	1943-05-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	McClelland		C$3.25^?C$: Canadian dollar. ISO code: CAD	xx+ 487	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	1945-00-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	Garden City Publishing Co.			xx+ 488	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Chronicles of Clovis	1948-10-00	Saki	Penguin Books	547	1/6^?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).	176	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
The Moonlight Traveller	1949-00-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	The Bodley Head		12/6^?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).	477	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Moonlight Traveller	1952-00-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	The Bodley Head		7/6^?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).	477	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	1954-09-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	Cardinal / Pocket Books	C-156	$0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xx+ 485	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
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	1954-09-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	Cardinal / Pocket Books	C-156	C$0.35^?C$: Canadian dollar. ISO code: CAD	xx+ 485	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
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1955	1955-09-00	ed. Anthony Boucher	Fantasy House, Inc.		$0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Chesley Bonestell
Fiction, #47	1957-10-00	ed. Editors of Fiction	OPTA		F120^?F: French frank. ISO code: FRF in 1960-1999	148	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Philippe Curval
The Supernatural in the English Short Story	1959-01-00	ed. Pamela Search	Bernard Hanison		21/-^?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).	480	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Moonlight Traveller	1960-11-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	World / WDL Books	HH981	2/6^?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).	224	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
Ghosts and Things	1962-00-00	ed. Hal Cantor	Berkley Medallion	F666	$0.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	160	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	Richard Powers (artist)
No Such Thing As a Vampire	1964-00-00	ed. Frederick Pickersgill	Corgi Books	SN7050	2/6^?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).	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.	anth	Jean-Leon Huens
Quiver of Horror	1964-00-00	ed. Dennis Wheatley	Arrow Books	759	3/6^?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).	288	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
Les chefs-d'œuvre du crime^?Les chefs-d'oeuvre du crime	1965-00-00	ed. Jacques Bergier, Alex Grall, Jacques Sternberg	Planète (Anthologie Planète)			458	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Jacques Noël^?Jacques Noel
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination	1965-07-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	Washington Square Press	W-704	$0.60^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xx+ 485	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
Dennis Wheatley's Second Book of Horror Stories	1968-08-00	ed. Dennis Wheatley	Hutchinson		30/-^?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).	288	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Complete Works of Saki	1976-00-00	H. H. Munro	Doubleday	0-385-05373-8	$9.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xiv+ 944	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Classic Tales of Horror	1976-10-00	ed. Stephanie Dowrick	Constable & Co. Ltd.	0-09-461560-8	£3.75^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xiii+ 270	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Best Ghost Stories	1977-06-00	ed. uncredited	Hamlyn	0-600-38242-7	£4.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	750	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Great Tales of the Supernatural	1978-02-00	ed. Stephanie Dowrick	J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton (Everyman's Library)	0-460-01266-5	£1.00^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	206	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	Chris Yates
65 Great Spine Chillers	1982-00-00	ed. Mary Danby	Octopus Books	0-86273-045-7	£4.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	670	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
65 Great Spine Chillers	1982-00-00	ed. Mary Danby	Octopus Books / Marks and Spencer	0-86273-045-7		670	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Steve Crisp
The Complete Saki	1982-00-00	H. H. Munro	Penguin Books (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)	0-14-118078-1		xiv+ 944	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.	omni
65 Great Spine Chillers	1983-00-00	ed. Mary Danby	Octopus Books	0-86273-045-7		670	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Best of Saki	1983-00-00	Saki	Picador	0-330-24732-8	£1.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	250	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 Leith
65 Great Spine Chillers	1985-00-00	ed. Mary Danby	Octopus Books	0-7064-1848-4	$8.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	672	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Chronicles of Clovis	1986-00-00	Saki	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	0-14-008355-3	£^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xii+ 171	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	Mick Brownfield
The Book of Fantasy	1988-11-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Viking	0-670-82393-7	$19.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Book of Fantasy	1988-11-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Xanadu	0-947761-44-6	£14.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Book of Fantasy	1989-06-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Viking / QPBC		$9.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	384	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
The Best Ghost Stories (abridged)	1990-03-00	ed. uncredited	Mallard Press	0-7924-5249-6	$7.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	397	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Book of Fantasy	1990-08-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Black Swan	0-552-99401-4	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	523	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	Stephen Player
The Best Ghost Stories (abridged)	1990-09-00	ed. uncredited	Ivy Leaf	0-86363-008-1	£3.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	397	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Book of Fantasy	1990-09-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Carroll & Graf	0-88184-656-2	$10.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	384	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
L'orrore nella musica	1991-04-00	ed. Gianni Pilo	Fanucci Editore (I Miti di Cthulhu #37)	88-347-0069-4	Lit 17,000^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	281	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	Rodney Matthews
Great Tales of the Supernatural	1992-05-00	ed. Stephanie Dowrick	J. M. Dent (Everyman's Library)	0-460-87165-X	£3.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	206	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	Joseph Drivas
The Complete Stories of Saki	1993-00-00	Saki	Wordsworth Editions (Wordsworth Classics)	1-85326-071-1		594	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.	omni	Walter Sickert
Englantilaiset aaveet	1994-00-00	ed. Markku Sadelehto	Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö^?Werner Soederstroem Osakeyhtioe Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio (FAN)	951-0-19413-1		502	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	Jukka Murtosaari
100 Tiny Tales of Terror	1996-09-00	ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg	Barnes & Noble Books	0-7607-0140-7	$7.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	x+ 565	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Cheryl Knippenburg
The Complete Saki	1998-05-01	H. H. Munro	Penguin Books	0-14-018420-1	£8.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xiv+ 944	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.	omni	E. O. Hoppe
Saki: The Complete Short Stories	2000-10-00	H. H. Munro	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)	0-14-118449-3	£10.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	576	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
The Chronicles of Clovis	2003-01-01	Saki	Project Gutenberg	3688	$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Scary Stories	2006-10-00	ed. Barry Moser	Chronicle Books	0-8118-5414-0	$16.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	184	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Barry Moser
The Chronicles of Clovis	2008-02-25	Saki	LibriVox		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll
The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories	2010-00-00	ed. Michael Kelahan	Fall River Press	978-1-4351-2498-1		xiv+ 408	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Patrice Kaplan
The Chronicles of Clovis	2012-11-20	Saki	CreateSpace	978-1-4810-5332-7	$12.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	208	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
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 21	2013-07-18	ed. LibriVox	LibriVox		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	anth
The Chronicles of Clovis	2016-05-20	Saki	LibriVox		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll
Great Supernatural Stories: 101 Horrifying Tales	2017-07-24	ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz	Fall River Press	978-1-4351-6620-2	$7.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xii+ 737	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology	2021-09-02	ed. Richard Wells	Unbound	978-1-80018-060-4	£25.00^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	448	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology	2021-09-02	ed. Richard Wells	Unbound	978-1-80018-061-1	£9.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology	2022-03-31	ed. Richard Wells	Unbound	978-1-80018-182-3	£12.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	448	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
PodCastle, 13 September 2022	2022-09-13	ed. Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Eleanor R. Wood	Escape Artists, Inc.		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	mag
The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan	2022-09-18	ed. Michael Wheatley	The British Library (British Library Tales of the Weird #32)	978-0-7123-5496-7	£9.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	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.	anth	Mag Ruhig
Horror Historia Violet	2023-06-20	ed. C. S. R. Calloway	CSRC Storytelling (Horror Historia)	978-1-955382-73-1		386	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Mena Bo
Great Supernatural Stories: 101 Horrifying Tales	date unknown	ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz	Fall River Press	978-1-4351-6620-2	$7.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xii+ 737	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)