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The Ostler

Wilkie Collins

First published December 1855
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

●”Originally published as the second story in “The Holly-Tree Inn”, a jointly-authored group of linked stories that formed the 1855 Extra Christmas Number of Household Words, published on 15 December 1855. The other contributors were Charles Dickens, William Howitt, Adelaide Anne Procter, and Harriet Parr . . . Reprinted in The Queen of Hearts (1859) under the new title of “Brother Morgan's Story of the Dream-Woman”; expanded and adapted (as “The Dream-Woman”) for Collins's American reading tour; further expanded for inclusion in The Frozen Deep and Other Tales (1874).” — excerpted and quoted from p 380 of Norman Page's collection of Wilkie Collins short fiction Mad Monkton and Other Stories.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1855 Household Words, Christmas, 1855 MAGAZINE 9
November 1990 Cover The Best Supernatural Stories of Wilkie Collins Robert Hale Collection 111
1994 Cover Mad Monkton and Other Stories Oxford University Press Collection 105
September 2023 Cover Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks British Library Publishing Anthology 119