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Title: The Sexton's Adventure Title Record # 839806
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date: 1851-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
Series Number: 3
Language: English
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Year Title
1851 The Sexton's Adventure [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
1851 The Sexton's Adventure [as by uncredited]
1851 The Sexton's Adventure [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
1973 The Sexton's Adventure [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]
1975 A Ghost Story [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
Year Language Title
2004Translated by Alexander Pechmann
German Abenteuer eines Totengräbers

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Dublin University Magazine, January 1851 1851-01-00 ed. Editors of Dublin University Magazine        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery 1923-00-00 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu George Bell & Sons  
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).
viii+
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
More Great Tales of Horror 1935-00-00 ed. Marjorie Bowen John Lane, The Bodley Head  
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).
xviii+
431
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories 1945-00-00 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Arkham House  
$3.00?$: US dollar
x+
357
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ronald Clyne Checkmark
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery 1971-00-00 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Books for Libraries Press 0-8369-3985-9   viii+
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Irish Ghost Stories of Sheridan Le Fanu 1973-00-00 Sheridan Le Fanu Mercier Press 0-85342-375-X   113
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  
Ghost Stories and Mysteries 1975-00-00 J. S. Le Fanu Dover Publications 0-486-20715-3   ix+
372
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 Hours After Midnight... 1975-00-00 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Leslie Frewin 0-85632-144-3
£4.50?£: UK pound
256
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Ghost Tour 1984-05-00 ed. Peter Haining William Kimber 0-7183-0507-8
£6.95?£: UK pound
190
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Realms of Darkness 1985-00-00 ed. Mary Danby Octopus Books 0-86273-244-1
$8.95?$: US dollar
796
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Realms of Darkness 1985-00-00 ed. Mary Danby Octopus Books 0-86273-244-1   796
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Realms of Darkness 1988-00-00 ed. uncredited Chartwell Books 1-55521-251-4   663
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Anthology of Fear 1988-12-00 ed. uncredited Marshall Cavendish Partworks 1-85435-117-6
£3.95?£: UK pound
368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Stories 1994-00-00 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Wordsworth Editions (Wordsworth Classics) 1-85326-218-8   178
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  
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery 2000-00-00 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Aegypan 1-59818-148-3
$13.95?$: US dollar
200
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Schalken the Painter and Others: Ghost Stories 1838–61 2002-08-30 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-042-5
C$60.00?C$: Canadian dollar
xxxiii+
245
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Douglas Walters 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
phantastisch!, #13 2004-01-00 ed.
Klaus Bollhöfener?Klaus Bollhoefener
Verlag Achim Havemann PHNTSTSCH013
€4.90?€: Euro
68
A4?21 cm by 29.7 cm or 8.3" by 11.7" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines
mag Gabriele Scharf Checkmark
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 2004-06-01 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Project Gutenberg 12647
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Checkmark
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery 2006-00-00 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Wordsworth Editions (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) 978-1-84022-067-4   vii+
178
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 Maurice de Vlaminck Checkmark
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan le Fanu: Volume 2 2010-04-29 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Leonaur Ltd 978-0-85706-147-8
£22.99?£: UK pound
572
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan le Fanu: Volume 2 2010-04-29 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Leonaur Ltd 978-0-85706-148-5
£14.99?£: UK pound
572
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  
Ghost Stories and Mysteries 2012-09-11 J. S. Le Fanu Dover Publications 978-0-486-14469-6
$24.95?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Best Ghost Stories and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu 2017-08-17 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Oldstyle Tales Press (Oldstyle Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Hauntings #10) 978-1-974661-12-1
$20.00?$: US dollar
434
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 M. Grant Kellermeyer  
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