"Arthur Holliday arrives in Doncaster during the busy September race-week. The only accommodation he can find is a shared room with a body occupying the other bed. His apparently dead companion revives in the night. He has an uncanny resemblance to Arthur and years later is found to be his illegitimate half-brother."—<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.wilkie-collins.info/books_queen_hearts.htm">Wilkie Collins Information Pages</a>
Originally published in Household Words 394 (1857-10-10) as part of the second of the five chapters of "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices", written jointly by Collins and Charles Dickens. Serialization of "The Lazy Tour" had begun the previous week. "Chapter the Second" opens with an introductory section by Dickens, Collin's story occupying pp. 340-9 of the magazine. Reprinted in The Queen of Hearts as "Brother Morgan's Story of the Dead Hand". — quoted from p 380 of Norman Page's collection of Wilkie Collins short fiction Mad Monkton and Other Stories.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1859 | The Queen of Hearts | Harper & Brothers | Collection | ||
| 1859 | The Queen of Hearts | Hurst and Blackett | Collection | 173|2173 | |
| October 1950 |
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Told in the Dark | Pan Books | Anthology | 100 |
| 1952 |
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Told in the Dark | Pan Books | Anthology | 100 |
| 1954 |
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Tales of Suspense | The Folio Society | Collection | |
| 1961 |
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Tales of Terror | Horwitz | Anthology | 118 |
| 1972 |
|
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Dover Publications | Collection | 40 |
| June 1972 | Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | Peter Smith Publisher | Collection | |3 | |
| September 1987 |
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Tales of the Dark #2 | St. Martin's Press | Anthology | 1 |
| July 1990 |
|
Ghost and Horror Stories | Tynron Press | Anthology | 444 |
| November 1990 |
|
The Best Supernatural Stories of Wilkie Collins | Robert Hale | Collection | 145 |
| 1994 |
|
Mad Monkton and Other Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | 195 |
| 2006 |
|
The Haunted Hotel & Other Strange Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 243 |
| January 2009 | The Queen of Hearts | Project Gutenberg | Collection | ||
| July 2009 | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Wilkie Collins: Volume 1 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | ||
| July 2009 | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Wilkie Collins: Volume 1 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | ||
| July 2016 |
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Το Νεκρό Χέρι και η Νυφική Κάμαρα | Ars Nocturna | Anthology | |1 |