The Spectre of Tappington
| First published | February 1837 |
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| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Novelette |
| Series | The Ingoldsby Legends |
A young man stays at a country house where the only bedroom available to him is one where a crime was committed. He is visited by dreams of a skeletal phantom and every morning wakes to find that the breeches or trousers he wore the previous day have vanished.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| February 1837 | Bentley's Miscellany, February 2, 1837 | MAGAZINE | |||
| 1840 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | Richard Bentley | Collection | 1 |
| 1864 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | W. J. Widdleton | Omnibus | 13|1.013 |
| 1867 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | Richard Bentley | Collection | 1 |
| 1879 | The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | Richard Bentley & Son | Collection | 1 | |
| 1898 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | J. M. Dent | Collection | 1 |
| 1907 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | J. M. Dent | Collection | 1 |
| 1907 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | J. M. Dent | Collection | 1 |
| 1909 | The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | William Heinemann | Collection | 1 | |
| May 1913 | The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | William Heinemann | Collection | 1 | |
| June 1919 | The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | William Heinemann | Collection | 1 | |
| June 1920 | The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | William Heinemann | Collection | 1 | |
| 1921 | Humorous Ghost Stories | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Anthology | 341 | |
| 1922 |
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Famous Mystery Stories | Thomas Y. Crowell | Anthology | 1 |
| October 1928 |
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Weird Tales, October 1928 | Popular Fiction Publishing Co. | MAGAZINE | 551 |
| 1934 |
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A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen | Daily Express Publications | Anthology | 251 |
| 1934 |
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A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen | Daily Express Publications | Anthology | 251 |
| 1936 |
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A Century of Ghost Stories | Hutchinson | Anthology | 705 |
| 1937 |
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Century of Thrillers | President Press | Anthology | 28|3028 |
| 1938 |
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Famous Mystery and Detective Stories | Blue Ribbon Books | Omnibus | |1 |
| 1947 |
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La gerbe noire | La Sixaine | Anthology | |
| 1971 |
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Ghosts! An Anthology of Spectral Stories | Blackie | Anthology | 119 |
| May 1983 |
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Nightcaps and Nightmares | William Kimber | Anthology | 13 |
| January 1984 |
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La gerbe noire | Néo | Anthology | 93 |
| 1996 |
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Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 13 |
| 2001 |
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Classic Tales of the Supernatural | Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | 279 |
| 2002 |
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Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural | Gramercy Books | Anthology | 279 |
| 2004 |
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The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 24 |
| October 2008 | Humorous Ghost Stories | Project Gutenberg | Anthology | |341 | |
| May 2009 |
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Funny Bones: An Anthology of Humorous Ghost Stories | Leonaur Ltd | Anthology | |17 |
| May 2009 |
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Funny Bones: An Anthology of Humorous Ghost Stories | Leonaur Ltd | Anthology | 185 |
| December 2009 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series | LibriVox | Collection | |
| October 2013 |
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Humorous Ghost Stories | LibriVox | Anthology | |17 |
| November 2016 |
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The 7th Ghost Story Megapack: 34 Classic Stories! | Wildside Press | Anthology | |
| 2019 | Weird Tales (disc 2) | Anthology | 551|21204551 | ||
| February 2021 |
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Humorous Ghost Stories | Spoken Realms | Anthology | |17 |
| August 2022 |
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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 12 | Wimbourne Books | Anthology | 24 |