The Sculptor's Warning single work   short story   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 The Sculptor's Warning
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Tale of the supernatural. A young English officer, scalped by Indians during a war in the last half of the 18th century, dies in the hut of a French settler, his Indian wife and their children. His ghost haunts the cottage which is generally untenanted until a Chicago sculptor comes to recuperate there in 1887 - and is visited by the ghost. Taking his appearance as a warning he starts him and is drowned when his steamer sinks ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 24 no. 285 February 1889 Z1080723 1889 periodical issue 1889 pg. 329-330
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