Ghost Stories

'muckle-mouthed Meg'
'Hang him, Provost!'[1] cried the Town Clerk; 'he was...

Captain Wheatcroft
In the month of September 1857 Captain German Whea...

Half-past One O'clock
In October, 1893, I was staying at a town which we shal...

The Arrears Of Teind
"Mr. Rutherford, of Bowland, a gentleman of landed prop...

The Dwarf Hunters
The heavy summer in the South is particularly hard to...

The Milkman And Church-yard Ghost
A man much addicted to the heinous sin of drunkenness...

Sir Hugh Ackland
The following remarkable fact shews the necessity of ...

The Man At The Lift
In the same way, in August, 1890, a lady in a Boston ho...

The Credulous Bishop
A few years since, a memorable conference took place ...

The Cold Hand
[Jerome Cardan, the famous physician, tells the followi...

HUNT'S "Romances of the West of England"

The Ghost Of Rosewarne
"Ezekiel Grosse, gent., attorney-at-law," bought the lands of Rosewarne from one of the De Rosewarnes, who had become involved in debt by endeavouring, without sufficient means, to support the dignity of his f...