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One Summer Night

Ambrose Bierce

First published March 1906
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In search of cadavers for anatomic studies, two medical students and a labor dig up the grave of a man who is actually not dead.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1906 Cover Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1906 International Magazine Company MAGAZINE 543|543.2
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 58
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 58
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 58
1925 Ten Tales The First Edition Club Collection 59
1948 Cover Fear and Trembling: Shivery Stories Dell Anthology 85
October 1963 Cover Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fear and Trembling Dell Anthology 88
February 1964 Cover Magazine of Horror, February 1964 Health Knowledge, Inc. MAGAZINE 66
1974 Cover Can Such Things Be? Citadel Press Collection 36
April 1977 Cover Victorian Nightmares W. H. Allen Anthology 82
September 1977 Cover Victorian Nightmares Taplinger Anthology 82
December 1980 Cover Victorian Nightmares Coronet Anthology 82
1984 The Best of Ambrose Bierce Castle / Book Sales Omnibus 210
May 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 423
June 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 423
December 1987 Cover The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader Chronicle Books Omnibus 182
1988 Cover The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Picador / Pan Books Omnibus 416
1989 Cover Campfire Tales: Ghoulies, Ghosties, and Long-leggety Beasties ICS Books Anthology 105
April 1990 Cover Can Such Things Be? Citadel Press Collection
October 1990 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Dorset Press Anthology
December 1991 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Macdonald Anthology
April 1992 Cover The Little Book of Horrors Xanadu Anthology 64
October 1992 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Warner Books UK Anthology
January 1997 Cover Can Such Things Be? Wordsworth Editions Collection
February 2001 Cover A Bottomless Grave and Other Victorian Tales of Terror Dover Publications Anthology 82
February 2001 Cover Nasty Endings 1 Oxford University Press Anthology
August 2003 Can Such Things Be? Project Gutenberg Collection |3
June 2008 Cover Horror Story Collection 4 LibriVox Anthology |6
May 2012 Cover Can Such Things Be? LibriVox Collection
May 2012 Cover Can Such Things Be? Collection |58
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection
July 2013 Dark Eclipse, Issue Number 24 Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing MAGAZINE
September 2016 Cover Classic Tales of Horror Arcturus Publishing Anthology |11
April 2017 Cover Classic Horror Tales Canterbury Classics Anthology |10
October 2017 Cover Classic Tales of Horror Arcturus Publishing Anthology
November 2017 Cover Horror Short Stories Arcturus Publishing Anthology
March 2018 Cover Horror Short Stories Arcturus Publishing Anthology