The phamtasmagorical experiences of a small boy who wanders away from home with a wooden sword in hand. He can't hear gunfire because he is deaf, and doesn't realize that he is in the middle of a real battle and that the soldiers he cheers on are wounded and dying.z
First published in the San Francisco Examiner, Jan 20, 1889.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1891 |
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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | E. L. G. Steele | Collection | 41 |
| 1892 | In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 41 | |
| 1898 | In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Collection | 36 | |
| 1909 |
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In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | The Neale Publishing Company | Collection | 46 |
| 1910 | In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 41 | |
| 1918 | In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Boni & Liveright | Collection | 46 | |
| 1918 | In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Boni & Liveright | Collection | 46 | |
| 1926 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories | Haldeman-Julius | Collection | |2 | |
| 1930 | In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 41 | |
| 1941 | In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Chatto & Windus | Collection | 41 | |
| 1955 |
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The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter and Other Stories | Avon | Collection | |3 |
| 1963 |
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Mein Lieblingsmord | Insel | Collection | |
| January 1965 |
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Die Geschichte eines Gewissens | Fischer Bücherei | Collection | 19 |
| October 1966 |
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Beyond the Curtain of Dark | Four Square Books | Anthology | 33 |
| 1969 |
|
Das Spukhaus | Insel | Collection | 124 |
| 1970 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Doubleday | Collection | 313 |
| November 1971 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales | Ballantine Books | Collection | 68 |
| November 1972 |
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Beyond the Curtain of Dark | Pinnacle Books | Anthology | 41 |
| November 1972 |
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Beyond the Curtain of Dark | New English Library | Anthology | 33 |
| 1974 |
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Un călăreț prin cer și alte povestiri | Cartea Românească | Collection | |
| 1974 |
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Ut av mørket | Fredhøis Forlag A/S | Anthology | 36 |
| January 1975 |
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Galassia, #205 | Casa Editrice La Tribuna | MAGAZINE | 87 |
| January 1977 |
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Das Spukhaus | Suhrkamp | Collection | 119 |
| 1984 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | Collection | 313 |
| 1984 | The Best of Ambrose Bierce | Castle / Book Sales | Omnibus | 18 | |
| October 1987 |
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Le mort et son veilleur | Néo | Collection | 37 |
| December 1987 |
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The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader | Chronicle Books | Omnibus | 24 |
| 1988 |
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce | Picador / Pan Books | Omnibus | 18 |
| June 1993 |
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Nursery Crimes | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 503 |
| 1994 |
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Civil War Stories | Dover Publications | Collection | 41 |
| 1997 |
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday | Pantheon Books | Anthology | 441 |
| November 1997 |
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The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 295 |
| November 1998 |
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday | Vintage Books | Anthology | 441 |
| 2004 |
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Contos fantásticos do século XIX | Companhia das Letras | Anthology | 389 |
| October 2008 |
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The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre | Penguin Books | Collection | 19 |
| 2009 |
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday | Penguin Books | Anthology | |441 |
| May 2009 |
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday | Penguin Books | Anthology | 441 |
| June 2011 |
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Great Short Stories by Great American Writers | Coyote Canyon Press | Collection | 166 |
| September 2011 |
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Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 14 | LibriVox | Anthology | |2 |
| March 2012 |
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Civil War Stories | Dover Publications | Collection | |
| March 2012 |
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Civil War Stories | Dover Publications | Collection | |
| July 2012 |
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Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale | Centipede Press | Collection | |
| October 2014 |
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Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 220 |
| March 2015 |
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday | Mariner Books | Anthology | 441 |
| May 2023 |
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Selve oscure | ABEditore | Anthology | |8 |
| May 2024 | PseudoPod, 27 May 2024 | Escape Artists, Inc. | MAGAZINE |