"Captain Stanwick and Lionel Varleigh are old friends but after falling out over their attentions to Bertha Laroche fight an illegal duel in Herne Wood. Stanwick wrongly thinks he has killed Varleigh and goes mad, killing himself with a razor, when his supposed victim returns like an apparition from the dead. Varleigh is acquitted of murder and marries Bertha."
Borderline genre: contains a supposed ghost that turns out not to be one. Originally published as 'The Duel in Herne Wood' in The Spirit of the Times, 22 December 1877.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1887 | Little Novels | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 123|3123 | |
| 1954 |
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Tales of Suspense | The Folio Society | Collection | |
| 1972 |
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Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Dover Publications | Collection | 108 |
| June 1972 | Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Peter Smith Publisher | Collection | |11 | |
| 1977 |
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Little Novels | Dover Publications | Collection | 199 |
| October 2008 | Little Novels | Project Gutenberg | Collection |