Best Ghost Stories Best Ghost Stories

Best Ghost Stories

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, The Haunted and The Haunters, The Silent Woman, Banshees, The Man Who Went, Too Far, The Woman's Ghost Story, The Phantom Rickshaw, The Rival Ghosts, The Damned Thing, The Interval, Dey Ain't No Ghosts, Some Real American Ghosts

Daniel De Foe and Others
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Publisher Description

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 Paul Armstrong used to say that it was because we are all as full of crime as Sing Sing—only we don't dare.

 Thus, may I ask, are we not fascinated by the ghost story because, no matter what may be the scientific or skeptical bent of our minds, in our inmost souls, secretly perhaps, we are as full of superstition as an obeah man—only we don't let it loose?

 Who shall say that he is able to fling off lightly the inheritance of countless ages of superstition? Is there not a streak of superstition in us all? We laugh at the voodoo worshiper—then create our own hoodooes, our pet obsessions.

 It has been said that man is incurably religious, that if all religions were blotted out, man would create a new religion.

 Man is incurably fascinated by the mysterious. If all the ghost stories of the ages were blotted out, man would invent new ones.

 For, do we not all stand in awe of that which we cannot explain, of that which, if it be not in our own experience, is certainly recorded in the experience of others, of that of which we know and can know nothing?[Pg viii]

Skeptical though one may be of the occult, he must needs be interested in things that others believe to be objective—that certainly are subjectively very real to them.

The ghost story is not born of science, nor even of super-science, whatever that may be. It is not of science at all. It is of another sphere, despite all that the psychic researchers have tried to demonstrate.

 

Contents

THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL   Daniel De Foe

CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK  Montague Rhodes James

THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS       Edward Bulwer-Lytton

THE SILENT WOMAN           Leopold Kompert

BANSHEES    

THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR    E.F. Benson

THE WOMAN'S GHOST STORY       Algernon Blackwood

THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW            Rudyard Kipling

THE RIVAL GHOSTS Brander Matthews

THE DAMNED THING           Ambrose Bierce

THE INTERVAL         Vincent O'Sullivan

DEY AIN'T NO GHOSTS        Ellis Parker Butler

SOME REAL AMERICAN GHOSTS

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
April 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
330
Pages
PUBLISHER
ANEB Publishing
SELLER
kaichien ku
SIZE
526.2
KB
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