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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
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
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  
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  
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  
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series 2009-12-30 Richard Harris Barham LibriVox      
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
coll Arthur Rackham  
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