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A Fruitless Assignment

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1893
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Some Haunted Houses

First published in the San Francisco Examiner, June 24, 1888.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1893 Can Such Things Be? Cassell Publishing Company Collection
1903 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 280
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 377
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 377
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 377
1926 Tales of Haunted Houses Haldeman-Julius Collection |4
1969 Cover Das Spukhaus Insel Collection 11
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 111
1976 Cover Tales for a Winter's Night Pelican Records Anthology |3
January 1977 Cover Das Spukhaus Suhrkamp Collection 13
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 111
1985 Campfire Stories: Things That Go Bump in the Night ICS Books Anthology 143
December 1987 Cover Poltergeist: Tales of Deadly Ghosts Severn House Anthology 56
1988 Cover Poltergeist: Tales of Deadly Ghosts Severn House Anthology 56
June 1988 Cover La valle degli spiriti Fanucci Editore Collection 149
January 2002 Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Project Gutenberg Collection
August 2002 Cover Campfire Stories: Things That Go Bump in the Night Globe Pequot Press Anthology 143
May 2004 Cover Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories IndyPublish.com Collection |10
October 2008 Cover The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre Penguin Books Collection 26
2009 Cover Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce Coachwhip Publications Collection 20
August 2011 Cover Can Such Things Be? Blackstone Audio Collection |280
May 2013 Cover Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories CreateSpace Collection
April 2023 Cover The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales British Library Publishing Collection 241