Title: August Heat
Title Record # 897213
Author: William Fryer Harvey
Date: 1910-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: William Fryer Harvey
Date: 1910-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: The full text of this story is available online. Multiple audio files of the story are available from the Wikipedia link.
Synopsis: One very hot day, an artist randomly draws a man in the dock at trial. He soon comes across the living counterpart of that unknown face, who's a gravestone carver who had the random impulse to carve a stone with an unfamiliar name and today's date of death--the name being the artist's.
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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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| Midnight House and Other Tales | 1910-00-00 | William Fryer Harvey | J. M. Dent |
v+ 243 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| Famous Ghost Stories | 1944-00-00 | ed. Bennett Cerf | Modern Library (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books #73) | $1.25?$: US dollar |
xi+ 361 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| Midnight Tales | 1946-00-00 | William Fryer Harvey | J. M. Dent | 8/6?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). |
xiv+ 200 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Geo. Mansell | ||
| The Beast with Five Fingers: Twenty Tales of the Uncanny | 1947-00-00 | William Fryer Harvey | E. P. Dutton | $2.50?$: US dollar |
219 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Short Stories | 1948-00-00 | ed. Henry Christ, Jerome Shostak | Oxford Book Co. | $2.08?$: US dollar |
429 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| The Week-End Book of Ghost Stories | 1953-00-00 | ed. Hereward Carrington | Ives Washburn | $3.50?$: US dollar |
viii+ 280 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| Famous Ghost Stories | 1956-00-00 | ed. Bennett Cerf | Modern Library | P21 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
xi+ 361 |
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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| The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Midnight Tales | 1962-00-00 | William Fryer Harvey | Aldine | 10 | 5/-?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). |
xv+ 200 |
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. |
coll | ||
| Famous Ghost Stories | 1962-00-00 | ed. Bennett Cerf | Vintage Books | V-140 | $1.25?$: US dollar |
xi+ 361 |
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 | ||
| The Other Side of the Clock | 1971-06-00 | ed. Philip Van Doren Stern | Pinnacle Books | P036-N | $0.95?$: US dollar |
220 | 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 | |
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| Midnight House and Other Tales | 1976-00-00 | William Fryer Harvey | Arno Press (Supernatural and Occult Fiction) | 0-405-08133-2 | $14.00?$: US dollar |
243 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
| 100 Tiny Tales of Terror | 1996-09-00 | ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg | Barnes & Noble Books | 0-7607-0140-7 | $7.98?$: US dollar |
x+ 565 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Cheryl Knippenburg | |
| The Double Eye | 2009-06-29 | William Fryer Harvey | Tartarus Press | 978-1-905784-14-1 | £32.50?£: UK pound |
xvi+ 303 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
| The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories | 2010-00-00 | ed. Michael Kelahan | Fall River Press | 978-1-4351-2498-1 |
xiv+ 408 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Patrice Kaplan | |
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| The Big Book of Ghost Stories | 2012-09-18 | ed. Otto Penzler | Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books | 978-0-307-47449-0 | $25.00?$: US dollar |
xii+ 833 |
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 | Gregg Kulick | |