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Original title: A Short Trip Home
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Ghosts
Fiction→ Fantasy→ Literary Fantasy

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Taps at Reveille (1935) [Collection]
      Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
     Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1963) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ray Bradbury , Roald Dahl , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Shirley Jackson , Richard Matheson , Theodore Sturgeon , Avram Davidson , Henry Slesar , John Collier , Edward D. Hoch , Jack Ritchie , Gerald Kersh , Robert Arthur , Joseph Payne Brennan , Robert Hichens , George Hitchcock , Grace Amundson , Idris Seabright , Stuart Cloete , Richard Wormser , Joan Vatsek , Gilbert Thomas , Don Stanford , Mack Morriss , Jane Rice , George Mandel , Jeremiah Digges , Andrew Benedict
     All Problems Are Simple and Other Stories (1988) [Anthology]
      Authors: Stephen King , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Alice Walker , Jean Stafford , John Updike , Peter Taylor , Paul Bowles , John O'Hara , Harold Brodkey , Irwin Shaw , Peter Cameron , Elizabeth Spencer , Evan S. Connell , Daniel Menaker , George Milburn , Mary Robison , Walter Bernstein , Allan Seager , Ella Leffland
     Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) [Anthology]
      Authors: Arthur C. Clarke , George Bernard Shaw , Arthur Conan Doyle , F. Scott Fitzgerald , V.S. Naipaul , Kenzaburo Oe , Luigi Pirandello , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Günter Grass , Bernard Malamud , Joseph Conrad , Gabriel García Márquez , Mervyn Peake , Rohinton Mistry , Margaret Atwood , Boris Vian , Herman Melville , E.B. White , Yevgeny Zamyatin , A. S. Byatt , T.H. White , James Stephens , Isabel Allende , Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Jerome Bixby , Philip MacDonald , Elizabeth Bowen , Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Conrad Aiken , Yehuda Amichai , Robert Aickman , William Goyen , Julian Barnes , Elizabeth Taylor , John D. Beresford , May Sinclair , William Sansom , Elizabeth Spencer , Hortense Calisher , Wolfgang Hildesheimer , Tommaso Landolfi , Mircea Eliade , Grace Amundson , Hanns Heinz Ewers , Dorothy K. Haynes , Amos Tutuola , Angus Wilson , Liliana Heker , Antonia White , Ann Bridge , Joyce Marshall , Ethel Wilson , Leon Rooke , Alfonso Reyes , Timothy Findley , Geoffrey Drayton , Satyajit Ray , Lion Feuchtwanger , Peter Green , Eric P. McCormack , Brett Balon , Ben Hecht
     Oxford Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: M. R. James , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Graham Greene , Alison Lurie , Edith Nesbit , Edith Wharton , Ellen Glasgow , Algernon Blackwood , Robert Bloch , A. S. Byatt , Joanna Russ , H. Russell Wakefield , Angela Carter , Thomas Burke , Fay Weldon , William Trevor , Muriel Spark , Elizabeth Bowen , Hugh Walpole , Walter de la Mare , Robert Aickman , Elizabeth Taylor , Oliver Onions , May Sinclair , L. P. Hartley , Marghanita Laski , Elizabeth Jane Howard , John Wyndham , William Sansom , Christine Brooke-Rose , Penelope Lively , Jane Gardam