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The Bagman's Story

Charles Dickens

First published September 1910
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A young man staying at an inn notes the widowed landlady being wooed by a man who is secretly merely after her money, as the unusually ornate high-backed chair in his room reveals to him.

Notes

First published in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Chapman & Hall, 1837.

Publications (23)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1910 Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors Gowans & Gray Anthology
June 1912 Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors Gowans & Gray Anthology 175
July 1918 Famous Ghost Stories Thomas Y. Crowell Anthology 281
January 1919 Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors Gowans & Gray Anthology 175
October 1920 Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors Gowans & Gray Anthology 175
October 1926 Cover Weird Tales, October 1926 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 534
1937 Cover Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries: (Third Series) Oxford University Press Anthology 106
February 1938 Famous Psychic and Ghost Stories Blue Ribbon Books Omnibus |1281
1969 Cover Shapes of the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 101
1973 Cover The Supernatural in Fiction McGraw-Hill Anthology 287
1978 Cover The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens John Calder; Riverrun Press Collection 23
1984 The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories Alan Sutton Collection |3
February 1988 Cover The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories Academy Chicago Collection
February 1996 Cover The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories Alan Sutton Collection
August 2000 Cover My Favorite Fantasy Story DAW Books Anthology 379|379.2
2001 Cover Classic Tales of the Supernatural Arcturus Publishing Anthology 455
2002 Cover Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural Gramercy Books Anthology 455
July 2004 Cover My Favorite Fantasy Story ibooks Anthology
September 2007 Dust 'n' Bones Hodder Children's Books Anthology
October 2007 Cover Dust 'n' Bones Hodder Children's Books Anthology
October 2008 Cover Dust 'n' Bones Hodder Children's Books Anthology
April 2010 Cover The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens Oneworld Classics Collection |3
2019 Cover Weird Tales Pulp Classics on DVD Anthology 534|10804534