Title: The Spectre of Tappington
Title Record # 1185595
Author: Richard Harris Barham
Date: 1837-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: The Ingoldsby Legends
Language: English
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Author: Richard Harris Barham
Date: 1837-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: The Ingoldsby Legends
Language: English
Synopsis: A young man stays at a country house where the only bedroom available to him is one where a crime was committed. He is visited by dreams of a skeletal phantom and every morning wakes to find that the breeches or trousers he wore the previous day have vanished.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Bentley's Miscellany, February 2, 1837 | 1837-02-02 | ed. Editors of Bentley's Miscellany | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
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| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | 1840-00-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire | Richard Bentley |
v+ 339 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll |  |
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| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | 1864-00-00 | Richard Harris Barham | W. J. Widdleton | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |||||
| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | 1867-00-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire | Richard Bentley |
xiv+ 513 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth and Marvels | 1879-00-00 | uncredited | Richard Bentley & Son |
xvi+ 546 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | 1898-00-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire | J. M. Dent |
xxiii+ 638 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | 1907-00-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esqre. | J. M. Dent |
xix+ 549 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | 1907-00-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esqre. | J. M. Dent |
xix+ 549 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | 1909-00-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esqre. | William Heinemann |
xix+ 549 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | 1913-05-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esqre. | William Heinemann |
xix+ 549 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | 1919-06-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esqre. | William Heinemann |
xix+ 549 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| The Ingoldsby Legends: or, Mirth & Marvels | 1920-06-00 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Esqre. | William Heinemann |
xix+ 549 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| Humorous Ghost Stories | 1921-00-00 | ed. Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. | G. P. Putnam's Sons | $3.50?$: US dollar |
xviii+ 431 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| Famous Mystery Stories | 1922-00-00 | ed. J. Walker McSpadden | Thomas Y. Crowell (The "Mystery" Library) | $1.25?$: US dollar |
x+ 292 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| Weird Tales, October 1928 | 1928-10-00 | ed. Farnsworth Wright | Popular Fiction Publishing Co. | $0.25?$: US dollar |
148 | pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75 |
mag | C. C. Senf | |
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| A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen | 1934-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Daily Express Publications | 1087 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
| A Century of Ghost Stories | 1936-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Hutchinson | 3/6?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). |
1013 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| Century of Thrillers | 1937-00-00 | ed. uncredited | President Press |
viii+ 367, vi+ 373, vi+ 370 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
| Famous Mystery and Detective Stories | 1938-00-00 | J. Walker McSpadden | Blue Ribbon Books | 639 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | ||||
| La gerbe noire | 1947-00-00 | ed. Jean Ray | La Sixaine (Le roman noir) | 231 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Lubsis | |||
| Ghosts! An Anthology of Spectral Stories | 1971-00-00 | ed. Alan C. Jenkins | Blackie | 0-216-88411-X | £1.25?£: UK pound |
383 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
| Nightcaps and Nightmares | 1983-05-00 | ed. Peter Haining | William Kimber | 0-7183-0269-9 | £6.50?£: UK pound |
204 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Ionicus | |
| La gerbe noire | 1984-01-00 | ed. Jean Ray | Néo (Fantastique / Science-fiction / Aventures #96) | 2-7304-0242-X | F29.00?F: French frank |
230 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Jean-Michel Nicollet | |
| Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories | 1996-00-00 | Rex Collings | Wordsworth Editions (Wordsworth Classics) | 1-85326-186-6 | £?£: UK pound |
x+ 289 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Caspar-David Friedrich | |
| Classic Tales of the Supernatural | 2001-00-00 | ed. Robin Brockman | Arcturus Publishing | 1-84193-013-X | 519 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Paul Ashby | |
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| Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural | 2002-00-00 | ed. Robin Brockman | Gramercy Books | 0-517-22095-4 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
519 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Paul Ashby | |
| The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories | 2004-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Wordsworth Editions | 1-84022-056-2 | 1149 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | |
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| Humorous Ghost Stories | 2008-10-18 | ed. Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. | Project Gutenberg | 26950 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | ||||
| Funny Bones: An Anthology of Humorous Ghost Stories | 2009-05-12 | ed. Dorothy Scarborough | Leonaur Ltd | 978-1-84677-692-2 | £19.78?£: UK pound |
236 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
| Funny Bones: An Anthology of Humorous Ghost Stories | 2009-05-12 | ed. Dorothy Scarborough | Leonaur Ltd | 978-1-84677-691-5 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
236 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||
| The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series | 2009-12-30 | Richard Harris Barham | LibriVox | $0.00?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
coll | Arthur Rackham | |||
| Humorous Ghost Stories | 2013-10-08 | ed. Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. | LibriVox | $0.00?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
anth | ||||
| The 7th Ghost Story Megapack: 34 Classic Stories! | 2016-11-08 | ed. John Gregory Betancourt | Wildside Press | 978-1-4794-2431-3 | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
| Weird Tales (disc 2) | 2019-00-00 | ed. uncredited | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
anth | ||||||
| Humorous Ghost Stories | 2021-02-13 | ed. Dorothy Scarborough | Spoken Realms | $18.56?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
anth |