"The Boarded Window" tells the tale of an elderly, taciturn man who lived in a desolate cabin in Ohio, back in the days when Ohio formed a part of America’s western frontier.

Published in the San Francisco Examiner, July 14, 1889. Reprinted in:

• Chamber of Horrors, ed. Anon., Octopus 1984
• The Penguin Book of Horror Stories, ed. J. A. Cuddon, Penguin 1984
• Great Ghost Stories, ed. Betty Ann Schwartz, S&S/Little Simon 1985
• Realms of Darkness, ed. Mary Danby, Octopus 1985
• Night Cry Fall 1987
• Ghosts of the Heartland, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press 1990
• Great American Ghost Stories (1991)
• 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories, ed. Al Sarrantonio & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• Great American Ghost Stories, Volume Two (1993)
• Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, ed. Anon., Bracken Books 1994
• Three Tales of Horror, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce & Robert Louis Stevenson, Penguin 1995
• Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al, ed. Alan Maitland, Viking Penguin Canada 1996
• 100 Tiny Tales of Terror, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996