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The Shadowy Third

Ellen Glasgow

First published December 1916
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

<i>Wikipedia:</i> The first-person narrator, Miss Randolph, is employed as Mrs. Maradick's nurse by her husband Doctor Maradick. Miss Randolph comes to see Mrs. Maradick as a victim and not as a patient suffering from hallucinations, as Doctor Maradick insists. The ghost of Mrs. Maradick's daughter, Dorothea, haunts the story and the reader is left to determine if Dorothea's well-placed jumping rope resulted in Doctor Maradick's accidental death.

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Publications (40)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1916 Scribner's Magazine, December 1916 MAGAZINE 659
1923 The Shadowy Third and Other Stories Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 1
August 1929 Beware After Dark!: The World's Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror The Macaulay Company Anthology 94
March 1930 Ghost Stories, March 1930 Constructive Pub. Corp. MAGAZINE 22
1945 Beware After Dark!: The World's Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror Emerson Anthology 94
July 1946 Argosy, July 1946 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 59
June 1951 Fantastic Novels Magazine, June 1951 New Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 88
1973 More Little Monsters Manor Books Anthology 41
1985 Young Ghosts Harper & Row Anthology 122
1985 Young Ghosts Harper & Row Anthology 122
October 1986 Asimov's Ghosts Dragon Anthology 114
November 1987 The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century Virago Anthology 49
June 1988 Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters Armada Omnibus 122
October 1988 Haunting Women Avon Anthology 132
March 1989 The Virago Book of Ghost Stories McGraw-Hill Anthology 49
March 1989 The Virago Book of Ghost Stories McGraw-Hill Anthology 49
August 1990 The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century Virago Anthology 49
October 1996 The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 25
October 1996 The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 25
1998 The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century Virago Anthology
June 1999 Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 166
September 2000 Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 166
October 2000 The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories Robinson Anthology
November 2000 The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 435
2001 The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 435
October 2001 Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology |11
August 2005 The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (Revised + expanded) Robinson Anthology 435
August 2005 The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (Revised + expanded) Carroll & Graf Anthology 435
2009 American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps The Library of America Anthology 436
2011 The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories Fall River Press Anthology 394
July 2011 The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories Robinson Anthology
September 2011 Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 23 Classic Stories of the Supernatural Signet Classics Anthology 99
September 2012 The Big Book of Ghost Stories Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 23
October 2012 Tor.com, October 24, 2012 Tor MAGAZINE
December 2012 The Big Book of Ghost Stories Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology |23
2013 Before Weird Tales: Early 20th Century Stories of Horror and the Supernatural Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology
May 2016 The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women Dover Publications Anthology 199
June 2020 The Big Book of Ghost Stories Highbridge / Recorded Books Anthology |23
May 2021 Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth The British Library Anthology 219
October 2023 The Shadowy Third and Other Stories Nezu Press Collection