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The Wind in the Rose-Bush

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

First published March 1903
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A mother comes to get her daughter back from her late sister's late husband's second wife, but the child seems strangely hard to locate, and a rosebush in the garden exhibits strange activity.

First published in Everybody's Magazine, February 1902.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1903 Cover The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 3
January 1968 Cover Magazine of Horror, January 1968 Health Knowledge, Inc. MAGAZINE 69
1969 Cover The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural Garrett Press Collection 3
1971 Cover Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 71
1974 Cover Collected Ghost Stories Arkham House Collection 90
March 1976 Cover Some Things Weird and Wicked Pantheon Books Anthology 14
August 1977 Cover Some Things Weird and Wicked Bantam Books Anthology 11
October 1981 Cover Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New Doubleday Anthology 12
1982 Cover Tales of Imagination and Suspense Silver Burdett Press Anthology 90
May 1982 Cover Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 12
December 1986 Cover The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural Academy Chicago Collection
January 1987 Cover The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural Academy Chicago Collection
December 1988 Cover Ghosts Signet / New American Library Anthology 85
October 1989 Cover Ghosts Robinson Anthology
December 1992 Cover The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II Xanadu Anthology 333
1993 Cover Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New Longmeadow Press Anthology 12
February 1993 Cover The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II Carroll & Graf Anthology 333
August 1993 Cover Horror by Lamplight Chancellor Press Anthology 270
April 1994 Cover The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II Carroll & Graf Anthology 333
May 1995 Cover The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women Penguin Books Anthology 357
January 1999 The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural Project Gutenberg Collection 3
August 2006 Cover H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself Pegasus Books Anthology
September 2006 Cover H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself Pegasus Books Anthology 283
June 2007 Cover H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 19 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself Fall River Press Anthology 151
February 2010 Cover The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce Penguin Books Anthology 243
January 2013 Cover The Second Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Ghost Stories Wildside Press Anthology 497
September 2015 Cover Chilling Ghost Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 159
November 2016 Cover Chilling Ghost Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology |159
January 2018 Cover Lost Ghosts: The Complete Weird Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Hippocampus Press Collection
June 2019 Cover Il vento nel cespuglio di rose e altre storie del soprannaturale Black Dog Edizioni Collection |2
August 2020 Cover Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 Pegasus Books Anthology
December 2020 Cover Il vento nel cespuglio di rose e altre storie del soprannaturale Black Dog Edizioni Collection |2
January 2022 Cover Shadows on the Wall The British Library Collection |104
January 2022 Cover Shadows on the Wall The British Library Collection 104
March 2022 Cover Il vento nel cespuglio di rose e altre storie del soprannaturale SAGA Egmont Collection |2