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The Highboy

Alison Lurie

First published June 1994
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"An acquisitive matron is unnerved by a capricious, malevolent spirit that seems to have inhabited her prized chest of drawers." (Publisher)

First published in Redbook, October 1990 as 'A Curious Haunting.'

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1994 Cover Women and Ghosts William Heinemann Collection 41
September 1994 Cover Women and Ghosts Nan A. Talese / Doubleday Collection
May 1995 Cover Women and Ghosts Minerva (UK) Collection
October 1995 Cover Women and Ghosts Avon Books Collection 40
November 1995 Supernatural Stories Kingfisher Anthology 175
November 1995 Cover Supernatural Stories Kingfisher Anthology 175
September 1996 Cover Supernatural Stories Kingfisher (US) Anthology
October 1996 Cover The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 390
October 1996 Cover The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 390
1997 Cover Great Ghost Stories Reader's Digest Anthology 362
June 1999 Cover Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 328
September 2000 Cover Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 328
October 2001 Cover Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories Robinson Anthology |19
May 2004 Cover Supernatural Stories Kingfisher (US) Anthology 175
September 2008 Cover Ghost Stories Alfred A. Knopf Anthology 371
September 2008 Cover Ghost Stories Alfred A. Knopf Anthology 371
October 2012 Cover Women and Ghosts Nan A. Talese / Doubleday Collection