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The Major's Tale

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Some soldiers play a joke on one of their number, Haberton, who boasts about being a ladies' man, by getting the pretty young soldier Arman to dress up as a woman and flirt with Haberton.

First published in the San Francisco Examiner as "A Practical Joke: Major Broadwood Recalls the Heroic Past," January 5, 1890.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 382
November 1971 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales Ballantine Books Collection 156
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 382
1984 The Best of Ambrose Bierce Castle / Book Sales Omnibus 426
1988 Cover The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Picador / Pan Books Omnibus 752
June 1991 Cover Horror Story 7 Garden Editoriale Anthology 262
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection