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Messengers at the Window

Henry van Dyke

First published 1991
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In order to explain how birds are messengers of God, a man from a lighthouse-keeping family tells what happened when his father tried to steal a ring off a drowned man's hand.

First published in The American Magazine, October 1912.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1991 Cover Spooky Sea Stories Yankee Books Anthology 209
September 1993 Cover Lighthouse Horrors: Tales of Adventure, Suspense, and the Supernatural Down East Books Anthology 57
2024 Cover Northern Darkness: 19 Great Stories Set in the Northern Region of the American Continent Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology 169