| "August Heat" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by W. F. Harvey | |
| Genre(s) | Horror, mystery |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Midnight House and Other Tales |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent |
| Publication date | 1910 |
"August Heat" is a 1910 short story by W. F. Harvey, about two men, unknown to each other, whose look at the other's possible future suggests that one of them will be murdered and the other will be the murderer. It is often referred to as a ghost story (it appears in The Folio Society's Book of Ghost Stories, for example, and in Edward Gorey's ghost story collection The Haunted Looking Glass) even though no ghosts are featured.[1]