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The Tunnel

John Metcalfe

First published September 1925
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An unjustly imprisoned man, after years of obsessively digging an escape tunnel, is about to break through to the surface ...

First published in Outlook, March 14, 1925.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1925 Cover The Smoking Leg and Other Stories Jarrolds Collection 145
1926 Cover The Smoking Leg and Other Stories Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 122
1934 Cover The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories Hutchinson Anthology 871
1947 Cover Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Simon & Schuster Anthology
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