Title: A Diagnosis of Death
Title Record # 99404
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Date: 1901-12-08
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English
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Author: Ambrose Bierce
Date: 1901-12-08
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English
Note: First published as "The Diagnosis of Death" in the New York Journal, December 8, 1901.
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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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| Can Such Things Be? | 1910-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | The Neale Publishing Company (The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce #3) | 427 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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| Can Such Things Be? | 1918-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Boni & Liveright | 427 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| Can Such Things Be? | 1924-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Albert & Charles Boni | 427 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts | 1926-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Haldeman-Julius (Little Blue Book #1075) | 1075 | 64 | ph?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications. |
coll | |||
| Mein Lieblingsmord | 1963-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Insel | DM 12.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
221 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Monster Festival | 1965-00-00 | ed. Eric Protter | Vanguard Press | $4.95?$: US dollar |
286 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Edward Gorey |  |
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| Die Geschichte eines Gewissens | 1965-01-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Fischer Bücherei?Fischer Buecherei (Fischer Bücherei?Fischer Buecherei #642) |
642 | DM 2.60?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
139 | 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 | |
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| The House of the Nightmare: and Other Eerie Tales | 1967-00-00 | ed. Kathleen Lines | The Bodley Head | 21/-?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). |
208 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Jutta Ash | ||
| The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | 1968-00-00 | ed. Kathleen Lines | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $3.95?$: US dollar |
xii+ 239 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Jutta Ash | ||
| Magazine of Horror, November 1968 | 1968-11-00 | ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes | Health Knowledge, Inc. | $0.50?$: US dollar |
132 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Virgil Finlay | |
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| The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | 1970-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Doubleday | 496 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Alex Gotfryd | |||
| The House of the Nightmare: and Other Eerie Tales | 1970-12-00 | ed. Kathleen Lines | Penguin Books | 0-14-030456-8 | 204 | 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 | |||
| Can Such Things Be? | 1974-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Citadel Press | 0-8065-0550-8 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
160 | 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 | ||
| The House of the Nightmare: and Other Eerie Tales | 1974-00-00 | ed. Kathleen Lines | Heinemann Educational Books (Heinemann New Windmills #185) | 0-435-12185-5 | 208 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |
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| The House of the Nightmare: and Other Eerie Tales | 1975-00-00 | ed. Kathleen Lines | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 0-374-33432-3 | $5.95?$: US dollar |
xii+ 239 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Jutta Ash | |
| The Best of Ambrose Bierce | 1984-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Castle / Book Sales | 0-89009-798-4 |
vi+ 484 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |||
| The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | 1984-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | 0-8032-6071-7 | 496 | 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 | Marvin Cone | ||
| The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce | 1988-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Picador / Pan Books (Picador Classics) | 0-330-29802-X | £6.95?£: UK pound |
xix+ 810 |
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. |
omni | Robin Harris | |
| I racconti dell'orrore | 1988-03-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Fanucci Editore (I Miti di Cthulhu #27) | 88-347-0062-7 | Lit 15,000?Lit: Italian lira |
224 | 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 | Les Edwards | |
| Can Such Things Be? | 1990-04-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Citadel Press | 0-8065-0550-8 | $6.95?$: US dollar |
160 | 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 | Kevin Kelly | |
| Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown | 1993-08-00 | ed. Marvin Kaye | GuildAmerica Books / SFBC | 1-56865-043-4 / 00588 | $10.98?$: US dollar |
xv+ [3]+ 573 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Edward Gorey | |
| Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown | 1994-06-00 | ed. Marvin Kaye | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-11026-X | $24.95?$: US dollar |
xv+ 573 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Edward Gorey | |
| Can Such Things Be? | 1997-01-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Wordsworth Editions (Wordsworth American Classics) | 1-85326-570-5 |
vii+ 161 |
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 | |||
| Can Such Things Be? | 2003-08-01 | Ambrose Bierce | Project Gutenberg | 4366 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | ||||
Valea bântuită?Valea bantuita Valea bintuita |
2005-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Editura Leda ( Galeria fantastică?Galeria fantastica ) |
973-7786-52-1 | 264 | 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 | |||
| The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre | 2008-10-02 | Ambrose Bierce | Penguin Books (Penguin Red Classics) | 978-0-14-103881-0 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
234 | 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 | Coralie Bickford-Smith | |
| Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce | 2009-00-00 | Ambrose Bierce | Coachwhip Publications | 978-1-61646-002-0 | $9.95?$: US dollar |
167 | 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 | ||
| The Book of Ghosts | 2009-00-00 | ed. Devon Hague, Michael Hague | HarperCollins | 978-0-688-14008-3 | $19.99?$: US dollar |
144 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Jeanne L. Hogle , Michael Hague | |
| Can Such Things Be? | 2012-05-02 | Ambrose Bierce | 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 | ||||
| Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale | 2012-07-17 | Ambrose Bierce | Centipede Press (Masters of the Weird Tale) | 978-1-61347-015-2 | $350.00?$: US dollar |
600 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
| The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | date unknown | Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | 978-0-8032-6071-9 | $18.95?$: US dollar |
496 | 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 | Marvin Cone | |
Reviews
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction