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An Encounter with a Madman single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 An Encounter with a Madman
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The narrator, fearful of ghosts, is scared by a newspaper account of an escaped lunatic but is committed to go out. In his railway carriage he sees a man who assumes the description, they tussle, and he awakes to find himself in a strait jacket. Humorous variation of the madman genre. (PB)

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