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The Difficulty of Crossing a Field

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1893
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series "Mysterious disappearances"

First published in the San Francisco Examiner, October 14, 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 309
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 415
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 415
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 415
1926 Tales of Haunted Houses Haldeman-Julius Collection |10
1969 Cover Das Spukhaus Insel Collection 35
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 171
January 1977 Cover Das Spukhaus Suhrkamp Collection 35
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 171
March 1988 Cover I racconti dell'orrore Fanucci Editore Collection 58
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 |16
October 2008 Cover The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre Penguin Books Collection 101
2009 Cover Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce Coachwhip Publications Collection 29
August 2011 Cover Can Such Things Be? Blackstone Audio Collection |309
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
April 2023 Cover The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales British Library Publishing Collection 285