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Hertford O'Donnell's Warning

Mrs. J. H. Riddell

First published 1874
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

A successful London doctor is haunted by a banshee, the creature whose scream portends death. On the night her wordless wail becomes a grave warning - get to the hospital, immediately - the doctor wonders just whose death he's been warned of. His own? A patient? A family member?

First published in London Society, Christmas 1867.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1874 Frank Sinclair's Wife and Other Stories Tinsley Brothers Collection 247|3247
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1971 Cover The Wild Night Company Sphere Anthology 129
April 1971 Cover The Wild Night Company: Irish Stories of Fantasy and Horror Taplinger Anthology 122
August 1977 Cover The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs. J. H. Riddell Dover Publications Collection 130
1988 Cover Irish Tales of Terror Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology
November 1990 Cover Mystery for Christmas Michael O'Mara Books Anthology 12
October 1991 Cover Mystery for Christmas Headline Anthology 15
October 1992 Cover Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural Souvenir Press Anthology 36
December 1992 Cover The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II Xanadu Anthology 306
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November 1994 Cover Mystery for Christmas St. Martin's Press Anthology 12
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May 1995 Cover The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women Penguin Books Anthology 306
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December 2012 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. J. H. Riddell: Volume 1: Including Two Novels "The Haunted River", and "The Haunted House at Latchford", Three Novelettes "Nut Bush Farm", "A Terrible Vengeance", and "Old Mrs Jones", and Two Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual Leonaur Ltd Collection
January 2015 Cover The Fifth Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Haunts Wildside Press Anthology
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