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The Hanging of Alfred Wadham

E. F. Benson

First published 1929
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A priest learns in confession that a murderer about to be executed is innocent, but cannot act on the knowledge.

Notes

First published in the magazine Britannia, December 21, 1928.

Publications (18)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1929 Cover Shudders Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology
1929 Cover Shudders Hutchinson Anthology 49
August 1929 Cover Weird Tales, August 1929 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 253
1931 Shudders Hutchinson Anthology
1934 Cover More Spook Stories Hutchinson Collection 89
1934 Cover A Century of Creepy Stories Hutchinson Anthology 331
1935 More Spook Stories Hutchinson Collection
1971 A Century of Creepy Stories Books for Libraries Press Anthology 331
November 1992 Cover The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson Robinson Collection 507
December 1992 The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson Carroll & Graf Collection 507
1994 Cover Creepy Stories: A Classic Collection Bracken Books Anthology 210
1996 Cover The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson Carroll & Graf Collection 507
November 1996 Cover The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson Carroll & Graf Collection 507
1999 Cover The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson Carroll & Graf Collection 507
February 2005 Cover Sea Mist Ash-Tree Press Collection 51
June 2012 Cover Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson Wordsworth Editions Collection 581
2019 Weird Tales (disc 2) Anthology 253|21402253
January 2025 Cover Weird Tales: The Best of the 1920s Centipede Press Anthology 577|577.2