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Selecting a Ghost

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published December 1883
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Argentine D'Odd is a successful man with a lovely wife, thriving bank account and a dignified (if fabricated) knightly heritage. But Goresthorpe Grange, his newly-purchased 'ancestral' home, lacks the one thing he wants most in the world: a ghost. Fortunately, there are people that can help with that. Unfortunately, the one who arrives is a con man. <br>Synopsis taken from publisher's website.

Non-supernatural, with a faked haunting. First published in London Society, December 1883, as "Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange." Not the same as Doyle's early story "The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe."
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Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1883 London Society, December 1883 MAGAZINE
December 1883 The New York Times, December 23, 1883 MAGAZINE
October 1887 Cover Dreamland and Ghostland: An Original Collection of Tales and Warnings from the Borderland of Substance and Shadow ; Embracing Remarkable Dreams, Presentiments, and Coincidences ; Records of Singular Personal Experience by Various Writers ; Startling Stories from Individual and Family History ; Mysterious Incidents from the Lives of Living Narrators ; and Some Psychological Studies, Grave and Gay (Vol. III.) George Redway Anthology 120
November 1888 Cover Ghost Stories and Presentiments George Redway Anthology 120
June 1889 Cover Strange Secrets Chatto & Windus Anthology 134
1893 Cover My Friend the Murderer and Other Mysteries and Adventures Lovell, Coryell & Company Collection 209
1893 Cover My Friend the Murderer and Other Mysteries and Adventures Lovell, Coryell & Company Collection
1895 Cover Strange Secrets Told by A. Conan Doyle and Others R. F. Fenno & Co. Anthology 117
1920 Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories Doubleday, Page & Company Anthology 203
1969 Cover Shapes of the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 27
1979 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications Collection 275
August 1979 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications Collection 275
1981 Cover L'horreur des altitudes Union générale d'éditions Collection 121
1982 Cover Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle Secker & Warburg Collection 129
1983 Cover Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle Secker & Warburg Collection 129
1984 Cover Geschichten des Grauens Naumann & Göbel Anthology 114
February 1984 Cover Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle Doubleday Collection 129
March 1986 Cover Supernatural Sleuths: Stories of Occult Investigators William Kimber Anthology 24
1987 Cover L'horreur des altitudes Union générale d'éditions Collection
June 1987 Cover Ghost Stories Exeter Books Anthology 115
April 1988 Cover The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle W. Foulsham & Co. Collection 42
June 1989 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Amereon House Collection 275
April 1990 Cover Il vampiro del Sussex Fanucci Editore Collection 35
2000 Cover The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Gramercy Books Collection
May 2004 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection 72
November 2006 Cover Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories Wildside Press Anthology 153
October 2007 My Friend the Murderer and Other Mysteries and Adventures Project Gutenberg Collection 209
2010 Cover The Speculative Conan Doyle Coachwhip Publications Collection 45
February 2010 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 8 LibriVox Anthology |12
February 2012 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection |72
February 2012 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection |72
June 2012 The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange Jurassic London Chapbook
August 2012 Cover Pandemonium: Lost Souls Jurassic London Anthology 147
August 2012 Cover Pandemonium: Lost Souls Jurassic London Anthology |147
May 2013 Cover Pandemonium: Lost Souls Jurassic London Anthology |147
July 2015 Cover Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories CreateSpace Anthology
2016 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications Collection 275
December 2019 Cover The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 5 Wimbourne Books Anthology 96
May 2021 Cover The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror Poisoned Pen Press Collection |8
May 2021 Cover The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror Poisoned Pen Press Collection |8