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References
- 1 2 Wilkie Collins - A Short Biography Wilkie Collins Information Pages. Accessed 8 Oct 2014.
- ↑ Wilkie Collins's A Terribly Strange Bed The Victorian Web. Accessed 8 Oct 2014.
- ↑ "A Terribly Strange Bed (TV Movie 1968) - Reference View - IMDb".
- A Terribly Strange Bed title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
