Ghost Stories

My Gillie's Father's Story
Fishing in Sutherland, I had a charming companion in th...

The Deathbed Of Louis Xiv
"Here is a strange story that the Duc d'Orleans told me...

Has Presented It
But, in the drawings, the fragments were of different c...

The Corpse The Blood-drinker
Night was slowly falling in the narrow valley. On the...

The Residence At Whitminster
Dr. Ashton--Thomas Ashton, Doctor of Divinity--sat in...

The Isle Of Pines
For many years there lived near the town of Gallipo...

The Two Curmas
A rustic named Curma, of Tullium, near Hippo, Augustine...

Kotter's Red Circle
Kotter's first vision was detailed by him, on oath...

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

The Slaying Of Sergeant Davies
We now examine a ghost with a purpose; he wanted to hav...

Three Ghost Stories

The Signal-man
"Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ...

The Haunted House - The Mortals In The House
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in ...

The Trial For Murder
I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. Almost all men ar...