Title: The Hanging of Alfred Wadham Title Record # 86586
Author: E. F. Benson
Date: 1928-12-21
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English User Rating: 7.00 (1 vote) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Year Title 1928 The Hanging of Alfred Wadham [as by Edward F. Benson]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Shudders	1929-00-00	ed. Cynthia Asquith	Charles Scribner's Sons		$2.00?$: US dollar	268	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Shudders	1929-00-00	ed. Cynthia Asquith	Hutchinson		7/6?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).	287	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Weird Tales, August 1929	1929-08-00	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	Hugh Rankin
Shudders	1931-00-00	ed. Cynthia Asquith	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).	287	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
More Spook Stories	1934-00-00	E. F. Benson	Hutchinson		7/6?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).	288	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	P. Youngman Carter
A Century of Creepy Stories	1934-00-00	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).	xi+ 1178	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
More Spook Stories	1935-00-00	E. F. Benson	Hutchinson		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).	288	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson	1992-11-00	E. F. Benson	Robinson	1-85487-110-2	£7.99?£: UK pound	xvii+ 624	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 Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson	1992-12-00	E. F. Benson	Carroll & Graf	0-88184-857-3	$10.95?$: US dollar	xvi+ 624	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
Creepy Stories: A Classic Collection	1994-00-00	ed. uncredited	Bracken Books	1-85891-136-2	£5.99?£: UK pound	[vi]+ 614	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Image Colour Library
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson	1996-00-00	E. F. Benson	Carroll & Graf	0-7867-0365-2	$12.95?$: US dollar	xvii+ 624	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	Kathleen M. Lynch , Barnaby Hall
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson	1996-11-00	E. F. Benson	Carroll & Graf	1-85487-110-2	$12.95?$: US dollar	xvi+ 624	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
Sea Mist	2005-02-25	E. F. Benson	Ash-Tree Press	1-55310-078-6	C$59.00?C$: Canadian dollar	xxxii+ 342	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Douglas Walters
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

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Reviews

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