Title: A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705

Title: A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 Title Record # 1032764
Author: Daniel Defoe
Date: 1706-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English

Note:

"one of the earliest fictional Ghost Stories – though apparently based on a true incident" --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by Mike Ashley
"in fact more reportage of a claimed sighting than an actual ghost story" --SFE3, biog. entry by John Clute and Peter Nicholls

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Year	Title
1706	A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, the Next Day After Her Death: to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 [as by uncredited]
1889	A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal, the Next Day After Her Death, to Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury the Eighth of September 1705
1918	A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
1919	The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
1924	Mrs. Veal
1946	True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
1987	True Revelation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
2004	A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705 [as by D. Defoe]
2006	A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal ...
2007	A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal
2008	The Apparition of Mrs Veal

Year	Language	Title
1936^ⓘTranslated by Georgette Camille, first published in the anthology <i>Histoires de fantômes anglais</i>, May 1936.	French	Mrs Veal
1963^ⓘTranslated by Rafael Llopis	Spanish	La aparición de Mrs. Veal
1981^ⓘTranslated by Mihai Rădulescu.	Romanian	Apariția Doamnei Veal^?Aparitia Doamnei Veal
1989^ⓘTranslated by Alda Carrer	Italian	L'apparizione della signora Veal

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors	1910-09-00	ed. Adam L. Gowans	Gowans & Gray (Gowans's New Sixpenny Series #2)		-/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	128	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors	1912-06-00	ed. Adam L. Gowans	Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library)		1/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	225	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors	1919-01-00	ed. Adam L. Gowans	Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library #2)		2/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	225	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors	1920-10-00	ed. Adam L. Gowans	Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library #2)			225	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Selected Ghost Stories	1996-11-00	ed. Giles Gordon	Bloomsbury	0-7475-2914-0	£10.95^?£: UK pound	232	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Jeff Fisher (artist)

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Reviews

Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction