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The Unlimited Draw of Tick Boileau

Rudyard Kipling

First published 1885
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An unpopular subaltern tells his messmates about a ghostly experience he had and gets them believing it, but he's hoaxing.

Hoax story without actual supernatural.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1885 Cover Quartette The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press Anthology 30
January 1987 Cover The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling W. H. Allen Collection 47
February 2007 Cover The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales Gollancz / Orion Collection 66
January 2008 Cover Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books Collection |66
November 2008 Cover Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books Collection |66
April 2009 Cover Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books / SFBC Collection
2010 Cover Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Fall River Press Collection 66
November 2010 Cover The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales Gollancz / Orion Collection
May 2014 Cover Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy Pegasus Books Collection |66