Ghost Stories

Elder 'machiavelli-er'
I On the evening after the stained-glass 'windie' ...

Necromancy
The belief that it was possible to call up the souls ...

The Drunken Bucks And Chimney-sweep
On March the 19th, 1765, four bucks assembled at an i...

The Vision And The Portrait
Mrs. M. writes (December 15, 1891) that before her visi...

The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall
BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS The trouble with Harrowby H...

Lord St Vincent's Ghost Story
Sir Walter Scott, writing about the disturbances in the...

The Specter Of Tappington
COMPILED BY RICHARD BARHAM "It is very odd, thou...

The Cry Of The Peacock
'Damn the dice!' cried the elder of the two players, ...

The Deathbed
Miss C., a lady of excellent sense, religious but not b...

Water-fowls
If a stream flow through the grounds, in the vicinity o...

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The Fascination Of The Ghost Story
What is the fascination we feel for the mystery of the ghost story? Is it of the same nature as the fascination which we feel for the mystery of the detective story? Of the latter fascination, the late Pau...