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The Spook House

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1910
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Some Haunted Houses

First published in the San Francisco Examiner, July 7, 1889.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 393
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 393
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 393
1926 Tales of Haunted Houses Haldeman-Julius Collection |7
1969 Cover Das Spukhaus Insel Collection 20
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 157
January 1977 Cover Das Spukhaus Suhrkamp Collection 21
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 157
March 1988 Cover I racconti dell'orrore Fanucci Editore Collection 39
February 1991 Cover Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories GuildAmerica Books / SFBC Anthology 233
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 |13
January 2008 Cover Horror Story Collection 3 LibriVox Anthology |7
October 2008 Cover The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre Penguin Books Collection 82
2009 Cover Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce Coachwhip Publications Collection 50
June 2009 Cover The Day They Hanged My Best Friend Jimmy... And 21 Other Weird Tales to Get You Through the Coldest Nights Tangled Vines Press Anthology 94
September 2011 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 14 LibriVox Anthology |11
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
January 2019 Cover Haunted House Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology
October 2019 Cover A House A-Haunt: Classic Stories of Haunted Houses, Horrific Rooms, and Other Ghastly Abodes Coachwhip Publications Anthology
2020 Cover John Landis Presents Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors That Should Never Be Opened DK Publishing Anthology
July 2020 Cover John Landis Presents Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors That Should Never Be Opened DK Publishing Anthology 247
April 2023 Cover The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales British Library Publishing Collection 245