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Two Military Executions

Ambrose Bierce

First published November 1906
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Soldier-Folk

Lieutenant Dudley suffers guilt over having had a soldier executed unnecessarily. His own death occurs under circumstances of seeming haunting.

First published in Cosmopolitan (New York), November 1906.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1906 Cover Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1906 International Magazine Company MAGAZINE 38
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 361
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 361
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 361
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 380
November 1971 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales Ballantine Books Collection 153
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 380
1994 Cover More Dixie Ghosts: More Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South Rutledge Hill Press Anthology 212
1995 More Dixie Ghosts: More Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South Rutledge Hill Press Anthology 212
January 2002 Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Project Gutenberg Collection
May 2004 Cover Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories IndyPublish.com Collection |8
March 2008 Cover Haunted Dixie: Great Ghost Stories from the American South Fall River Press Anthology 209
January 2009 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 1 LibriVox Anthology |12
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection
May 2013 Cover Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories CreateSpace Collection