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August Heat

William Fryer Harvey

First published 1910
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

One very hot day, an artist randomly draws a man in the dock at trial. He soon comes across the living counterpart of that unknown face, who's a gravestone carver who had the random impulse to carve a stone with an unfamiliar name and today's date of death--the name being the artist's.

The full text of this story is available online. Multiple audio files of the story are available from the Wikipedia link.

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1953 Cover The Week-End Book of Ghost Stories Ives Washburn Anthology 81
1956 Cover Famous Ghost Stories Modern Library Anthology 276
1962 Cover The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Midnight Tales Aldine Collection
1962 Cover Famous Ghost Stories Vintage Books Anthology
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1976 Midnight House and Other Tales Arno Press Collection
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