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A Ghoul's Accountant

Stephen Crane

First published November 2007
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A man camping out is awakened by a fearsomely strange-looking man, red-faced, black-whiskered, and carrying a three-pronged fishing spear, and dragged to a nearby house, where he is required to resolve a dispute in arithmetic.

A burlesque ghost story, apparently but not actually supernatural. First published in the New York Tribune, 17 July 1892.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 2007 Cover Horror Story Collection 2 LibriVox Anthology |1
June 2008 Cover Horror Story Collection 4 LibriVox Anthology |2
June 2009 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 3 LibriVox Anthology |6