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John Mortonson's Funeral

Ambrose Bierce

First published March 1906
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

At John Mortonson's funeral, his family are frightened by the horrible appearance of the corpse and by a cat jumping out of the coffin.

First published in the Cosmopolitan (New York), March 1906.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1906 Cover Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1906 International Magazine Company MAGAZINE 544
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 252
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 252
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 252
1926 Tales of Haunted Houses Haldeman-Julius Collection |2
1965 Cover Histoires étranges et récits insolites Le Livre-club du libraire Anthology 193
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 87
1974 Cover Can Such Things Be? Citadel Press Collection 126
June 1974 Cover Racconti neri Garzanti Collection 53
1976 Cover Tales for a Winter's Night Pelican Records Anthology |6
1981 Cover De griezeligste verhalen Loeb Anthology 26
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 87
1984 The Best of Ambrose Bierce Castle / Book Sales Omnibus 300
1987 Cover Night Cry, Summer 1987 TZ Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 81
October 1987 Cover Le mort et son veilleur Néo Collection 47
1988 Cover The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Picador / Pan Books Omnibus 506
June 1988 Cover La valle degli spiriti Fanucci Editore Collection 109
April 1990 Cover Can Such Things Be? Citadel Press Collection
April 1992 Cover The Little Book of Horrors Xanadu Anthology 20
August 1994 Cover 100 Creepy Little Creatures Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 254
July 1995 Cover 100 Creepy Little Creatures Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 254
January 1997 Cover Can Such Things Be? Wordsworth Editions Collection
August 2003 Can Such Things Be? Project Gutenberg Collection |18
2005 Cover Valea bântuită Editura Leda Collection
September 2005 Cover Die Augen des Panthers Audiobuch Collection |2
2009 Cover Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce Coachwhip Publications Collection 138
February 2011 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 12 LibriVox Anthology |12
September 2011 Nota do Tradutor, September 2011 Revista de Tradução Literária e Biblioteca Digital MAGAZINE 214
September 2011 Nota do Tradutor, September 2011 Revista de Tradução Literária e Biblioteca Digital MAGAZINE 216
May 2012 Cover Can Such Things Be? LibriVox Collection
May 2012 Cover Can Such Things Be? Collection |252
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection
January 2013 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 19 LibriVox Anthology |4