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Original title: The Open Window
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Ghosts
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) [Collection]
      Author: Saki
     Famous Ghost Stories (1944) [Anthology]
      Authors: M. R. James , Rudyard Kipling , Ambrose Bierce , Algernon Blackwood , August Derleth , Isak Dinesen , W. F. Harvey , Saki , W. W. Jacobs , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Richard Middleton , Oliver Onions , E. F. Benson , Thorp McClusky , Mark Schorer , Brander Matthews
     Short Story Masterpieces (1954) [Anthology]
      Authors: J. D. Salinger , William Faulkner , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway , Henry James , James Joyce , D. H. Lawrence , John Steinbeck , Sinclair Lewis , Harold L. Davis , Katherine Anne Porter , Jean Stafford , Eudora Welty , John Cheever , Peter Taylor , Joseph Conrad , Stephen Crane , W. Somerset Maugham , Carson McCullers , Sherwood Anderson , Frank O'Connor , Sean O'Faolain , John Collier , Katherine Mansfield , Saki , Ring Lardner , James Thurber , Irwin Shaw , Nelson Algren , Conrad Aiken , Hector Hugh Munro , A. E. Coppard , William Carlos Williams , Elizabeth Taylor , Mary McCarthy , J.F. Powers , Elizabeth Parsons
     Best Short Shorts (1958) [Anthology]
      Authors: Isaac Asimov , August Derleth , W. F. Harvey , Saki , Nelson S. Bond , Hugh B. Cave , Robert Zacks , Corey Ford , Ilse Aichinger , Paul Jones , Georges Surdez , Mary Dirlam , John Godey , Milton White , Bud Murphy , Peter Brackett , Sam F. Ciulla , Lois Dykeman Kleihauer , Marc Connelly , Lawrence Williams , Jim Kjelgaard , Robert M. Ross , Mary Knowles , Margaret Bird , Ruth Sterling , Quentin Reynolds , Elizabeth Middleton , James L. Schisgall , W.C. Heinz , Leslie Gordon Barnard , Hunt Miller , Laurene Chambers Chinn , Frederick Laing , Carl Zuckmayer , Alfred Coppel
     Best of Saki, the (1976) [Collection]
      Author: Saki