Ghosts in the Great War, and true tales of haunted houses : $b Thrilling experience of "Daily News" readers
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Ghosts in the Great War, and true tales of haunted houses : $b Thrilling experience of "Daily News" readers
Ghost stories
Book No. 2. WARNINGS FROM BEYOND.
• Strange Warnings and Premonitions.
• Saved by His Child.
• A Persistent Warning.
• A Startling Vision.
• Why I Am Convinced.
• Inexplicable Experiences.
• An Unseen Menace.
• The Phantom Organist.
• Remarkable Stories of Ghosts of the Living.
• A Strange Vision.
• A Life-saving Vision.
• Grandmother's Call.
• Extraordinary Experiences Related by Nurses.
• The White Friar.
• A Wandering Spirit.
Tall Stories.
• The “Tallest” of the “Tall.”
• That Was a Good Race.
• The Musician's Ghost.
Strange Visions of Animals.
• The Dying Sealyham.
Book No. 3. UNCANNY STORIES.
• ‘One Tid 'E Get Out?
• In the Quiet of the Night.
• A Gruesome Treasurer.
• The Butterfly Ghost.
• Saved by His Own Ghost.
• A Photographic Mystery.
• The Flying Dutchman.
• A Strange Vision and Its Sequel.
Book No. 4. GHOSTS IN THE GREAT WAR AND HAUNTED HOUSES.
• A Pal in Life and Death.
• The Morning of the Ypres Big Push.
• Is there an Explanation?
• A Dream or a Ghost?
• An Evil Presence.
• A Strange Story.
• Was It a Curse!
LETTERS REFERRED TO IN INTRODUCTION.
Dear Sirs,—Noting that this correspondence is transferred to you, I
venture to think that I can subscribe interesting matter for the
subject.
Born seventy-three years ago and passing my early youth in the
country, it will be understood that story telling was a regular
feature of spending evenings, and the “ghostly” variety was very
prevalent, so much that my young mind was saturated with that
nonsense, and to such an extent that life for me after the passing of
daylight was a burden. In the dark I fancied seeing ghostly shapes
and hearing ghostly sounds everywhere. An elder sister who was
similarly affected and, to some extent, my mother, were the only
persons who knew of my sufferings, as I would have been subject to
ridicule from others, who, however, no doubt had a touch of the
disease themselves. I remember my mother hushing the “entertainer”
when children were present, and trying to divert the talk into other
channels.
Then happily came the cure. Somehow a book came into my hand
(probably borrowed by me or for me). I do not remember its title. It
may have been “Ghosts Laid Bare,” “The Inexplicable Explained,” or
“Common Sense Versus Superstition.” It was ghost stories again, just
as I had heard them (with variation) and quite in line with what the
otherwise generally intelligent Daily News has been serving us, but
with this difference, that after each tale a natural explanation of
it was given. It must have been done very well, fully intelligible
for my about thirteen years’ mind. The effect was remarkable. I saw
how I had been fooled, and to my intense relief was cured of all
fear.
You will therefore understand that unless your intended book of Ghost
Stories or Uncanny Incidents is to be on the same line, that is an
anti-dose after each dose of poison, I for one condemn it in advance.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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