Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: 'Such grotesque attitudes as his figure assumed I never saw.'] Ghost I Have Met And Some Others By John Kendrick Bangs With Illustrations by Newell, Frost, and Richards TO CHOICE SPIRITS EVERYWHERE CONTENTS GHOSTS THAT HAVE HAUNTED ME THE MYSTERY OF MY GRANDMOTHER'S HAIR SOFA THE MYSTERY OF BARNEY O'ROURKE THE EXORCISM THAT FAILED THURLOW'S CHRISTMAS STORY THE DAMPMERE MYSTERY CARLETON BARKER, FIRST AND SECOND ILLUSTRATIONS "SUCH GROTESQUE ATTITUDES AS HIS FIGURE ASSUMED I NEVER SAW" "I TURNED ABOUT, AND THERE, FEARFUL TO SEE, SAT THIS THING GRINNING AT ME" "THE FRIENDLY SPECTRE STOOD BY ME" "HE FLED MADLY THROUGH THE WAINSCOTING OF THE ROOM" "THEN HE SET ABOUT TELLING ME OF THE BEAUTIFUL GOLD AND SILVER WARE THEY USE IN THE ELYSIAN FIELDS" "THERE WAS NO ONE THERE" "I DRAINED A GLASS OF COOKING-SHERRY TO THE DREGS" "IT HAD TURNED WHITE" "IT IS NOT OFTEN THAT ONE'S LITERARY CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST" "'SIX IMPTY CHAIRS, SORR'" "'L--LUL--LET ME OUT!' HE GASPED". "'I SHALL KEEP SHOVING YOU FOR EXACTLY ONE YEAR'" "I WAS FORCIBLY UNCLAD" "HE WAS AMPLY PROTECTED" "PINNED HIM TO THE WALL LIKE A BUTTERFLY ON A CORK" "FACE TO FACE" "HE RATTLED ON FOR HALF AN HOUR" "THE DEMON VANISHED" "'DOESN'T DARE LOOK ME IN THE EYE!'" "'LOOK AT YOUR SO-CALLED STORY AND SEE'" "IT WAS TO BE THE EFFORT OF HIS LIFE" "WHEN HE ROSE UP IN THE MORNING HE WOULD FIND EVERY SINGLE HAIR ON HIS HEAD STANDING ERECT" "'WEARS HIS QUEUE POMPADOUR, I SEE'" GHOSTS I HAVE MET, AND SOME OTHERS GHOSTS THAT HAVE HAUNTED ME A FEW SPIRIT REMINISCENCES