“A Fruitless Assignment”
1888-06-24
short story
By Ambrose Bierce

Alternate Titles:
“The Haunting at Vine Street”

Some Haunted Houses

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First publication: San Francisco Examiner, June 24, 1888

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All of the stories in the Some Haunted Houses series:
A Fruitless Assignment
The Isle of Pines
The Spook House
At Old Man Eckert’s
A Vine on a House
The Thing at Nolan
The Other Lodgers