A Terrible Adventure single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 A Terrible Adventure
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A card-room in a London fashionable gentleman's club introduces the narrator to another player. He goes back to the man's rooms where he is locked in and finds himself playing against a lunatic for his life. He loses and only escapes being blown up by a moth which extinguishes itself and a deathly candle at the same time. Narrow escape from a lunatic tale. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 33 no. 401 October 1898 Z1075068 1898 periodical issue 1898 pg. 665-666
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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