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- 12621
- author: Lang, Andrew
- title: The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
- date: None
- words: 82075
- flesch: 76
- summary: They saw Inverawe and his son fall, and other men whom they knew. Skafti answered that there was no hope of other men doing it, if Glam could not, seeing he was so strong and stout-hearted.
- keywords: absent; accident; account; actual; affair; age; aged; alarmed; amherst; apparition; appearance; attention; august; augustine; author; awake; away; bad; ball; barter; bath; bed; bedroom; belief; beresford; best; black; blood; blue; bocan; body; bolter; bones; book; box; boy; bright; broken; brother; brougham; buckingham; buckley; business; candle; captain; case; certain; chamber; chance; chang; chapter; character; children; christian; church; circumstances; claughton; clergyman; clerk; clothes; coincidence; cold; colonel; coming; common; company; considerable; country; course; cross; crystal; curious; dark; date; daughter; davies; day; days; dead; deal; death; december; detail; devil; different; difficulty; dining; distance; disturbances; disturbed; doctor; dog; dogs; donald; door; doubt; drawing; dream; dreaming; dress; duc; duke; early; effect; emily; emma; england; esther; evening; event; evidence; examples; experience; experiments; explanation; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fall; familiar; family; famous; farm; father; fear; february; feet; fell; fellow; felt; figure; fire; fisher; floor; folk; following; food; footsteps; forgotten; friday; friend; froda; future; galton; general; gentleman; george; ghost; ghostly; girl; glam; glass; god; good; great; grettir; grey; hair; half; hallucination; hand; hard; hath; haunted; hauntings; head; health; heavy; hetty; highland; hill; history; home; horses; hour; house; human; husband; imposture; impression; information; inquiry; inside; instance; inverawe; january; john; joseph; journey; june; kind; kitchen; kjartan; knock; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; large; later; law; leave; left; letter; lieutenant; life; like; little; live; living; london; long; look; lord; lost; loud; lying; lyttelton; macpherson; mad; magnus; maid; man; manner; march; mark; married; mary; matter; mause; memory; men; mental; mention; meresby; middle; mind; minister; miss; modern; moment; months; moon; morning; morton; mother; mrs; murder; murdered; mystery; names; narrative; native; nature; near; new; news; night; noises; note; november; number; nurse; o'clock; objects; occasion; occurrence; october; old; open; opinion; ordinary; outside; papers; parish; party; pass; past; path; peculiar; people; perceval; person; phantasms; phenomena; piece; place; point; poor; popular; portrait; presence; present; priest; proceedings; professor; promise; proof; psychical; purpose; queen; question; raps; rare; read; real; reason; red; regiment; report; rest; return; rev; ricketts; rizzio; rokeby; room; rose; round; rule; s.p.r; said; sane; saying; scene; science; scientific; scott; search; second; secret; seer; sense; sergeant; servant; service; set; shchapoff; shepherd; short; sign; similar; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; small; society; sounds; soutar; spectre; spirit; standing; state; statement; stay; stone; stories; story; strange; strong; study; subject; summer; sunday; sure; surprised; tail; tale; talk; tall; teed; tell; telling; theory; things; thinking; thorgunna; thorhall; thorir; thorodd; thought; thurid; ticonderoga; time; town; towse; trial; tristram; trouble; true; tuesday; tyrone; unconscious; unknown; unusual; usual; veracious; version; view; visible; vision; visit; voice; vol; waking; wall; walter; way; week; wesley; white; wife; william; window; winter; witness; witnesses; woman; wood; words; work; wraith; wrist; years; young
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- 12674
- author: Lang, Andrew
- title: Cock Lane and Common-Sense
- date: None
- words: 97559
- flesch: 67
- summary: The question is whether all these spiritual beings are only ghosts raised to higher powers: or (in the case of deity), to the highest conceivable power, while, even when this last process has been accomplished, we ask whether other ghosts, on lower grades, continue to be recognised. There are many other cases in which apparitions are seen in houses where mysterious thumps and raps occur, especially in General Campbell's experience (p. 483).
- keywords: abnormal; absent; accepted; account; action; activity; actual; affair; agencies; agency; ages; aid; air; alleged; american; ancient; anecdote; angels; animistic; answer; anthropological; anthropology; apparitions; appearance; april; argument; arm; attempt; attention; aubrey; auguier; australian; author; authority; automatic; awake; bad; ball; barwick; bed; bedroom; belief; believers; best; bezuel; bishop; black; blood; bodies; body; book; boy; boyle; brain; briggs; brother; brown; business; butler; campbell; carpenter; case; castle; causes; central; centre; century; certain; chair; character; chief; child; children; china; christian; church; cideville; circle; circumstances; civilisation; clairvoyance; classes; classical; clear; clothes; cock; coincidence; coincidental; cold; collection; coming; committee; common; company; conception; concerned; conclusion; conditions; confession; conjuring; consciousness; contact; contemporary; conversation; conway; cotton; country; course; court; crookes; cross; crystal; culture; cupertino; cure; curious; curtains; dark; date; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; death; demons; describes; devil; diabolical; different; difficult; diffused; diffusion; dinner; disease; distance; distant; disturbances; divine; doctor; doctrine; document; dominant; door; doubt; drawing; dreams; dress; earlier; early; easy; edinburgh; edition; educated; effect; england; english; epileptic; epworth; eskimo; essay; events; evidence; examination; examined; examples; existence; experience; experiments; explanation; eye; eyes; face; facts; fairies; faith; fall; false; familiar; family; famous; fanny; father; february; feet; figure; fire; floor; folklore; following; force; forgotten; form; fourth; frazer; french; friend; furniture; future; gasparin; gazing; general; gentleman; genuine; ghost; ghostly; girl; glanvill; glass; god; gods; golding; good; great; greatrakes; greece; greek; gregory; guilty; half; hallucinated; hallucinations; hallucinatory; hand; harris; haunted; hauntings; head; hearing; heavy; henry; hibbert; highland; historical; history; home; honourable; hour; house; human; hunter; husband; hypnotic; hypothesis; iamblichus; idea; identical; identity; illusions; imposture; impressions; information; inquiry; instances; interest; interesting; investigation; invisible; james; john; johnson; joseph; journal; judge; june; kind; kirk; knocking; knocks; knowledge; known; kohl; ladies; lady; lane; large; later; law; laws; lay; learned; left; legal; legend; letter; levitation; life; light; like; likely; literary; literature; little; living; lodge; london; long; longer; lord; lost; loyer; lucretius; macpherson; magic; magical; maid; making; malady; man; manifestations; manner; maori; martin; marvels; material; matter; means; mediaeval; medicine; medium; memory; mental; mere; method; middle; mind; minister; mirabel; miracles; miraculous; miss; modern; moment; money; morning; morris; morton; moses; mother; motion; movements; mrs; murder; 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world; worthy; wraiths; writer; writing; years; young; zulu
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- 13319
- author: Belasco, David
- title: The Return of Peter Grimm
- date: None
- words: 36124
- flesch: 93
- summary: He is the son of _PETER'S_ dead sister, and has been educated by_ PETER _to carry on his work. [_He goes quickly to_ PETER _and listens to his heart.
- keywords: act; afraid; andrew; annamarie; arms; away; bad; batholommey; bed; belasco; big; book; boy; business; calling; care; catherine; chair; change; child; children; church; circus; clear; clock; close; clown; coffee; colonel; coming; course; cry; david; day; days; dead; dear; death; desk; doctor; door; enters; eyes; face; family; feeling; fellow; fine; flowers; frederik; frederik grimm; gardens; girl; glad; god; good; great; grimm; h'm; half; hand; happy; hard; hartman; hat; head; heart; henry; hicks; home; hope; house; idea; james; katie; know; lamp; lawton; leave; left; letter; life; lights; like; lips; listens; little; long; look; love; macpherson; man; manner; marta; matter; message; mind; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; music; new; night; nods; office; old; open; pause; peg; people; personal; peter; peter grimm; phone; picture; piece; place; plans; play; poor; present; promise; question; rat; read; reading; rest; return; rev; room; rose; run; saying; second; set; shoulder; singing; sir; small; speak; spirit; stage; stairs; standing; subject; sure; table; telegram; thank; theatre; things; thinking; thought; time; town; true; truth; uncle; uncle peter; voice; want; warfield; watch; way; wedding; wife; william; window; wish; work; world; years; york; young
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- 13934
- author: Harris, J. W. (John William)
- title: Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
- date: None
- words: 12531
- flesch: 67
- summary: In the Alleged Haunting of B---- House, p. 33, Miss Freer says: Apparitions are really hallucinations or false impressions upon the senses, created so far as originated by any external cause, by other minds either in the body or out of the body, which are themselves invisible in the ordinary and physical sense of the term, and really acting through some means at present very imperfectly known. Miss Freer, who saw the shadows of a figure on the wall first, and then the figure itself, must have been more scientifically operated on, but an apparition to several young ladies is harder to bring about.
- keywords: affected; alice; alleged; apparition; attack; attention; audible; better; binet; book; case; connected; course; criminal; days; distance; dog; doubtless; ear; early; effect; effort; experience; eye; fact; father; feeling; footnote; freer; friend; gang; garrison; gentleman; ghost; glen; good; great; haunted; haunting; health; hearing; house; hypnotic; hypnotism; idea; indian; influence; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; langton; later; left; life; little; lord; man; means; mind; miss; mrs; nature; nerves; night; nun; nuns; occasion; oliphant; pain; people; person; phenomena; piper; podmore; poltergeist; poor; position; possible; power; pressure; priests; question; rare; rascals; reason; religious; room; says; scientific; second; slight; society; sound; speech; spirits; strong; studies; study; subject; thought; time; transfer; victim; vision; voices; way; window; word; work; writer; years; young
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- 14099
- author: None
- title: True Irish Ghost Stories
- date: None
- words: 55330
- flesch: 74
- summary: Whatever may be the ultimate explanation, we feel that there is a great deal in the words quoted by Professor Barrett: In spite of all reasonable scepticism, it is difficult to avoid accepting, at least provisionally, the conclusion that there are, in a certain sense, haunted houses, _i.e._ that there are houses in which similar quasi-human apparitions have occurred at different times to different inhabitants, under circumstances which exclude the hypothesis of suggestion or expectation. Two stories are told about haunted houses at Drogheda, the one by A.G. Bradley in _Notes on some Irish Superstitions_ (Drogheda, 1894), the other by F.G. Lee in _Sights and Shadows_ (p. 42).
- keywords: account; answer; apparition; appearance; arms; avenue; banshee; barrack; barrett; bed; bedroom; best; black; blood; book; boy; boys; broken; brother; business; candle; captain; carriage; case; castle; certain; chamber; chapter; children; church; churchyard; city; clergyman; close; clothes; co.; coach; cold; coming; connection; cook; cork; corney; correspondent; country; courage; course; cross; curious; dark; date; daughter; day; days; dead; death; devil; different; distance; dog; door; doubt; drawing; dress; dublin; early; esq; evening; evidence; experience; explanation; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; family; farmer; father; fear; feeling; figure; fire; floor; following; footnote; footsteps; friend; frightened; furniture; gate; gentleman; ghost; ghostly; girl; glass; god; good; great; group; hair; half; hall; hand; haunted; haunting; head; hearing; heavy; high; home; horses; hour; house; human; husband; incident; inside; ireland; irish; kitchen; knocking; known; lady; lamp; large; later; leave; left; legend; length; letter; life; like; limerick; little; locked; long; looking; lord; loud; m.a; making; man; manner; match; material; matter; member; men; middle; midnight; miles; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; months; moonlight; morning; mother; mrs; mysterious; names; nature; near; neighbours; new; night; noises; north; number; nurse; o'clock; occasion; occupants; occupied; occurrence; october; officer; old; open; opening; order; ordinary; outside; p.m.; parish; particular; passage; past; people; person; personal; phantom; phenomena; place; point; poltergeist; poor; position; possible; presence; present; previous; priest; professor; quarter; question; randall; reason; rector; related; relative; reputation; rest; return; rev; richard; road; room; round; scanlan; scene; second; servants; short; sign; similar; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; sleeping; small; spirit; spot; standing; state; station; stones; stories; story; strange; street; strong; supernatural; table; tales; tall; tapestry; terrible; terror; thing; thought; time; tottenham; town; trees; true; truth; turning; unpleasant; unseen; upstairs; usual; visible; visit; voice; walking; wall; way; westropp; white; wife; window; woman; words; work; world; writer; yards; years; young
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- 14522
- author: Wilde, Oscar
- title: The Canterville Ghost
- date: None
- words: 11845
- flesch: 71
- summary: The whole family were now quite interested; Mr. Otis began to suspect that he had been too dogmatic in his denial of the existence of ghosts, Mrs. Otis expressed her intention of joining the Psychical Society, and Washington prepared a long letter to Messrs. Myers and Podmore on the subject of the Permanence of Sanguineous Stains when connected with Crime. Mr. Otis consequently resumed his great work on the history of the Democratic Party, on which he had been engaged for some years; Mrs. Otis organized a wonderful clam-bake, which amazed the whole county; the boys took to lacrosse euchre, poker, and other American national games, and Virginia rode about the lanes on her pony, accompanied by the young Duke of Cheshire, who had come to spend the last week of his holidays at Canterville Chase.
- keywords: american; appearance; arms; beautiful; bed; black; blood; bottle; boys; canterville; cecil; celebrated; chains; chase; cheshire; child; cold; corridor; day; days; deal; death; deep; determined; dinner; door; duchess; duke; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; fearful; fell; floor; frightened; ghost; good; grave; great; green; half; hand; head; heavy; high; home; house; housekeeper; illustration; jewels; lady; large; laughter; library; like; little; london; long; look; lord; low; man; mean; mind; minister; miss; moment; morning; mrs; natural; new; night; o'clock; old; otis; past; place; pony; poor; reason; red; rest; room; round; second; servants; simon; sir; skeleton; sleep; small; spot; stain; staircase; states; strange; terrible; thing; time; twins; umney; united; virginia; voice; washington; way; white; wife; window; years; young
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- 15258
- author: Falconer, Lanoe
- title: Cecilia de Noël
- date: None
- words: 34332
- flesch: 83
- summary: By Mrs. Mrs. ALEXANDER. Lady Atherley was counting the stitches of her knitting; I was too tired; so he resumed: For my part, I prefer the daylight and the glass, without any daubing.
- keywords: able; afraid; air; arms; atherley; augustus; aunt; austyn; bad; beautiful; bed; best; better; bible; black; blue; book; boys; breakfast; broken; canon; carriage; castleman; cecilia; ceiling; certain; chair; chapter; children; christian; church; cissy; class; cold; colour; comfort; common; cook; course; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; denis; dinner; doctor; door; doubt; drawing; dream; dressing; drive; early; effect; eleanour; end; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; family; fancy; far; father; feeling; fever; fine; fire; george; ghost; glad; god; good; gospel; great; half; hall; hand; hann; hard; harold; haunted; head; heart; heaven; help; henrietta; high; hill; home; hope; hour; house; human; ill; instance; instant; jackson; jane; john; kind; kitchen; lady; lady atherley; large; late; left; life; like; likely; lindy; little; living; london; long; look; looking; love; lucinda; lyndsay; maid; mallet; man; manner; matter; men; mind; molyneux; moment; monk; morning; mostyn; mother; mrs; nature; near; new; night; noise; noël; old; open; pain; parkins; past; patient; people; person; pity; place; poor; question; real; religion; religious; remember; rest; rood; room; rose; round; saying; self; sense; series; sermons; servants; shadow; sign; simple; sir; sitting; sleep; smile; sort; soul; standing; station; stay; step; story; strange; suffering; supernatural; sure; sweet; tea; thing; thought; time; tip; tired; touch; true; truth; uncle; view; village; voice; want; warren; way; weald; white; window; wish; woman; words; work; world; worse; years; young
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- 16538
- author: None
- title: The Alleged Haunting of B—— House Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor
- date: None
- words: 54525
- flesch: 76
- summary: | Miss Freer | | Miss Freer | Crash under dome | | | |
- keywords: a.m.; account; afternoon; alleged; appearance; april; arrival; article; august; awake; b----; bang |; banging; bed; bedroom; black; body; boisseaux |; breakfast; burn; bute; c----; case; certain; close; conversation |; correspondent; corridor; course; dark; day; daylight |; days; death; description; different; dinner; direction; distinct; disturbed; dog; dome |; door |; doubt; downstairs; dressing; duff; earlier; early; endell; evening; evidence; experience; explosive |; face; fact; fall |; familiar; family; father; february; figure; fire; floor; following; footsteps |; freer |; frightened; garford |; gentlemen; ghost; glen; good; great; ground; guests; h----; h----s; half; hall; hallucinations; hand; haunted; haunting; hearing; hot; hour; house; housemaid; i. |; inquiry; interested; interesting; intervals; ishbel; journal; june; kind; knocking; knocks; known; lady; langton |; large; late; lay; leaving; left; letter; little; living; london; long; lord; loud; m--- |; macp; maid; major; man; march; married; matter; members; mention; mind; minutes; miss langton; miss moore; moment; months; moore; morning; movement; moving; myers; names; nature; near; night; noise |; nos; nun; o'clock; occasion; occupied; old; open; order; outside; overhead; p.m.; passage; peculiar; people; percussive |; persons; phenomena; pipes; place; point; possible; practical; present; private; proprietor; psychical; question; quiet; reading |; reason; regard; reputation; research; rev; robinson |; room |; s----; s.p.r; said; second; sensation; servants; short; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; smoking; society; sound; stairs; state; story; subject; subjective; t--- |; table |; talking; taylor; tenancy; things; thought; time; upstairs; usual; viii; visit; wall; watch; water; way; window; witnesses; woman; writing; years; | ---------+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+; | attics; | butler; | colonel; | crash; | date; | dining; | drawing; | heavy; | library; | miss; | mr; | mrs; | vibrating; | voices; | wing; | |
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- 16975
- author: Hubbell, Walter
- title: The Haunted House: A True Ghost Story Being an account of the mysterious manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox, the young girl who is possessed of devils, and has become known throughout the entire dominion as the great Amherst mystery
- date: None
- words: 18145
- flesch: 78
- summary: Great Heavens, exclaimed Olive, What shall we do with her; she is crazy? Jane, who always retains her presence of mind, took her sister's hand and said in a soothing tone: Come Esther, get into bed again. As these strange things only occur while Miss Esther Cox is present, she has become known as the Amherst Mystery throughout the entire country.
- keywords: afternoon; amherst; appearance; astonishment; author; bed; bob; boys; breakfast; caritte; cellar; chair; cold; continued; corner; cottage; cox; dan; day; dead; dining; dinner; distance; doctor; door; esther; esther cox; evening; eyes; face; fact; factory; fall; family; feet; fire; floor; george; ghost; girl; god; good; great; hands; hard; head; home; honest; hour; house; jane; john; kitchen; known; lamp; large; left; like; little; looking; loud; manifestations; matter; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mrs; night; o'clock; old; olive; parlor; past; people; person; place; rest; room; second; sister; sleep; small; sounds; stairs; strange; street; table; teed; time; true; village; wall; water; way; weeks; white; wife; william; work; young
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- 17190
- author: Collison-Morley, Lacy
- title: Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
- date: None
- words: 20055
- flesch: 74
- summary: These instances I have not, as a rule, troubled to collect, for they cannot strictly be classed as ghost stories; but since the influence of the dead was generally considered to be exercised in this way, I shall give a few stories which seem particularly striking. I will include here a couple of stories which, if they cannot exactly be classed as stories of warning apparitions, are interesting in themselves, and may at least be considered as ghost stories.
- keywords: able; account; achilles; ajax; alive; apparition; aristeas; arms; battle; bed; belief; best; black; blood; bodies; body; book; boy; brutus; candles; case; certain; chains; charito; clothes; corpse; course; cæsar; daughter; day; days; dead; dead man; death; deceased; divine; door; doubtless; early; earth; eucrates; evil; existence; eyes; fact; famous; father; feet; find; following; footnote; form; friends; future; ghost; gigantic; girl; gods; good; great; greece; greek; hair; hands; head; hector; helen; help; hero; heroes; home; house; human; husband; instance; interesting; island; isle; italy; kind; large; larvæ; later; left; life; little; living; long; love; lower; lucian; machates; magic; maiden; man; means; men; modern; mother; n.h; necromancy; nero; night; number; occasion; offerings; old; oracle; parents; pelops; people; place; pliny; question; religion; restless; return; rites; rome; room; round; rule; saying; sea; shade; ship; shore; similar; slave; sleep; son; souls; spells; spirits; stories; story; tale; temple; thou; time; tomb; town; trench; troy; truth; vision; war; warning; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years
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- 17229
- author: None
- title: The Haunted Hour: An Anthology
- date: None
- words: 40107
- flesch: 91
- summary: When the heron's in the high wood and the last long furrow's sown With the herded cloud before her and her sea-sweet raiment blown Comes Mary, Mary Shepherdess, a-seeking for her own. In the hour that I meet you ghost to ghost, Stripped of the flesh that you skulk within, Stripped to the coward soul 'ware of its sin, Ye shall learn, ye shall learn, whether dead men hate!
- keywords: abbey; alas; alice; arms; arthur; aye; baie; ballad; bare; baron; bay; bear; bed; bell; bent; best; bird; black; blood; blue; boat; body; bower; bray; breast; breath; breeze; bridegroom; bridge; bright; brother; chaleurs; chamber; child; children; church; clerk; close; coach; cock; cold; comrade; country; crew; cross; cruel; cry; dame; dark; darkness; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; des; dim; dog; don; door; dora; dove; dream; earth; ere; eve; eyes; face; fain; fair; faith; far; fast; father; fear; feet; fire; flame; flesh; foam; folk; foot; free; friar; fro; garden; garrison; gate; gay; ghost; ghostly; glad; glass; god; golden; good; grave; gray; great; green; grey; grief; grim; hair; half; hall; hamilton; hand; happy; hard; hath; haunted; head; heart; heaven; hell; henry; high; hill; hither; hollow; holy; home; hood; hour; house; ingoldsby; iscariot; janet; john; judas; katherine; kilmer; kingston; kiss; knee; laddie; lady; lake; land; lay; leave; left; legend; lie; lies; life; like; lips; little; little dead; live; living; lonely; long; longfellow; look; looking; lord; loud; louise; love; low; maid; man; marching; mare; margaret; marjorie; mary; mass; men; merry; midnight; mist; moan; moon; moonlight; moor; morning; morrow; mother; nay; near; new; news; night; o'er; old; open; orchard; page; pain; pale; pass; past; phantom; place; play; poems; poor; priest; queen; quick; rain; ravelston; red; rest; richard; riding; rise; road; robert; room; rose; round; sad; sail; saunders; says; sea; seas; set; shade; shadows; shepherdess; ship; shore; shorter; shot; sigerson; silence; silent; silver; sir; sister; sky; sleep; sleeping; small; smile; snow; song; soul; spake; spirit; stair; stand; stars; stone; strange; sun; sweet; tears; thee; theodosia; thing; thomas; thou; thy; tide; tighe; time; tis; tlot; touch; town; tree; true; turn; twas; tynan; voice; wait; wall; walter; wan; warm; watch; waves; way; weary; weeping; white; wide; wife; wild; william; wind; window; winter; woman; word; year; yellow; young
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- 2433
- author: MacDonald, George
- title: Donal Grant
- date: None
- words: 183951
- flesch: 86
- summary: Said Davie, Must a woman, Mr. Grant, marry a man she does not love? No, certainly, Davie. Mr. Grant, said Arctura, in dread of what Davie might say next, what do you take to be the duty of one inheriting a property? Said the gentleman, 'Now you'll have no more trouble.
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wull; ye hae; ye'll; ye're; years; yer; yersel; young; youth
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- 28699
- author: Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington)
- title: Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters
- date: None
- words: 46381
- flesch: 60
- summary: Burning with curiosity, Mr. Hoole made such good time to Epworth that before noon he was at the rectory and eagerly listening to an account of the marvels that had so alarmed the Wesleys. Once more time proved that the spirit seer, as Swedenborg was now popularly known, had told the truth.
- keywords: account; affair; afterward; age; aid; alarm; alive; alleged; altogether; apparition; author; aware; bearing; bed; belief; best; body; book; brougham; candle; career; case; castle; celebrated; century; certain; chamber; chance; character; charge; charles; children; church; city; claims; clear; clergyman; clerk; clothes; cock; coming; committee; company; complete; conditions; connection; contemporary; continued; contrary; convent; country; course; court; crawford; crookes; cross; crystal; daughter; day; days; dead; death; december; dee; desire; devils; different; difficult; direction; discovery; dissociation; door; doubt; drummer; earlier; early; earth; easy; effect; elizabeth; england; english; entire; events; evidence; evident; evil; existence; experiences; explanation; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; feet; figure; floor; following; footnotes; forgotten; form; fox; fraud; frederica; friends; ghost; girl; glanvill; god; good; grandier; great; greater; ground; half; hallucinations; hand; haunting; head; health; high; history; hodgson; home; hope; hours; house; human; husband; hypothesis; idea; imagination; important; influence; inquiry; instance; instant; interested; interesting; intervention; investigation; invisible; jeffrey; john; kelley; kerner; knocking; knocks; knowledge; known; lady; lane; large; later; laubardemont; law; lay; learning; leave; left; letter; life; like; little; living; london; long; longer; lord; lost; loudun; lurancy; maid; making; man; manner; marvelous; marvels; mary; matter; means; medium; mediumship; memory; mental; mere; messages; mignon; mind; minded; mission; modern; moment; mompesson; months; morning; mother; mrs; myers; mysterious; mystery; narrative; nature; near; need; new; night; noise; number; nuns; occasion; old; open; order; original; paper; parents; parsons; past; peculiar; people; personality; phenomena; philosopher; physical; physician; place; point; possessed; possession; possible; powers; presence; present; problems; psychical; public; queen; question; reality; reason; recent; record; regard; related; remarkable; reputation; request; research; result; return; rev; riddle; robert; roff; room; samuel; science; scientific; seated; secondary; secret; self; sense; servant; short; sidgwick; similar; singular; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; small; society; soul; sound; special; spirit; spiritism; spiritistic; spiritual; squire; state; statement; stevens; story; strange; strong; study; subject; subliminal; sufficient; suggestion; superior; supernatural; superstitious; sure; swedenborg; séance; table; task; tedworth; telepathic; test; things; thought; time; town; true; truth; unhappy; unknown; unseen; vain; value; vennum; victim; view; visit; watseka; way; wesley; white; wide; wife; william; window; woman; wonder; words; work; world; years; york; young
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- 30440
- author: O'Donnell, Elliott
- title: Byways of Ghost-Land
- date: None
- words: 65991
- flesch: 69
- summary: Yet they interest me, and although I quake horribly when they are present, I derive endless amusement at other times, in speculating on their _raison d'être_, and curious--perhaps complex--constitutions. Sometimes it flaps its leathern wings against the window of the room containing the sick person, and in a broken, howling tone calls upon the latter to give up his life; whilst, at other times, according to Mr Dyer in his _
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- 31341
- author: Taylor, Joseph
- title: Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed
- date: None
- words: 49570
- flesch: 68
- summary: Sometimes they are found in the plastering of a wall, and at other times in a rotten post, or in some old chest or trunk; and the noise is made by beating its head on the subject that it finds fit for sound. Sometimes a friendly ghost surprises you with a hand as cold as clay; at other times, that same ghostly hand gives three solemn raps, with several particularities, according to the different dispositions of the ghost.
- keywords: abbé; account; act; affair; alarmed; answer; apartment; apparition; appearance; approach; assistance; astonishment; attention; barbarosse; bed; billows; bishop; black; blood; body; boy; bridge; broken; candle; care; castle; cause; certain; chair; chamber; character; child; children; church; circumstances; close; clothes; clouds; coffin; cold; commissioners; company; conversation; corpse; country; courage; course; court; credulous; curiosity; dark; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deep; determined; devil; different; dinner; discovery; distance; dog; domino; door; dreadful; dream; effect; evening; event; extraordinary; eyes; face; fall; family; fancy; fast; fatal; father; fear; feet; fellow; female; field; figure; finding; fire; floor; following; foot; friar; friend; frightened; funeral; gentleman; ghost; gille; girl; glass; god; good; grave; great; greatest; green; half; hand; hat; haunted; head; hearing; heart; high; hollow; holy; home; hope; hour; house; husband; imagination; inhabitants; inn; instant; john; junker; justice; kind; king; knife; knocking; known; ladies; lady; landlord; lane; lanthorn; large; lay; leave; left; length; letter; life; like; lindorf; little; living; long; look; lost; love; maid; man; manner; mareschal; mary; master; means; melancholy; mercy; middle; midnight; mind; moment; money; monsieur; moon; morning; mother; murder; mysterious; mystery; nature; near; neighbourhood; new; night; noise; number; o'clock; o'er; object; observed; occasion; old; open; order; pale; parish; particular; party; past; people; person; phenomenon; philosopher; place; plain; pocket; poor; possible; power; prayers; present; priest; proper; public; purpose; question; reason; related; relation; remarkable; remember; resolution; rest; return; room; round; safety; sea; second; secret; servants; set; short; silence; silent; singular; sir; sister; situation; skull; sleep; small; solemn; spectre; spirit; stairs; state; stood; stories; story; strange; strong; subject; sudden; sun; supernatural; superstitious; supposed; surprise; table; terrified; terror; thee; thing; thought; thy; time; tone; town; truth; unfortunate; usual; vain; vault; view; village; visible; vision; visit; voice; watch; water; way; west; white; wife; wind; window; woman; wood; words; world; yard; years; young; youth
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- 32841
- author: Ogilvie, William
- title: The Laird o' Coul's Ghost
- date: None
- words: 6347
- flesch: 71
- summary: And how long has he been with me? C. Only since we past Brunsley, but now he is gone. O. Coul, we are just now upon Elmscleugh, and I desire to part with you, tho' I have gained more from our Conversation together, than what perhaps I would have done otherwise in a twelve month, I chuse rather to see you at another Time, when you are at Leisure, and I wish it may be at as great a Distance from Innerwick as you can. O. May I then ask you, if you be in a State of Happiness or not? C. There are a great many Things that I _can_ answer, which the Living are entirely ignorant of: there are many more Things, that notwithstanding the additional Knowledge I have acquired, since my Death, that I _cannot_ answer, and there are several Things and Questions that you may start, of which the last is one, that I _will_ not answer.
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- 34171
- author: Bangs, John Kendrick
- title: Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile
- date: None
- words: 58671
- flesch: 76
- summary: Better than this, however, better even than personal beauty, with which he was plentifully endowed, Mr. Hopkins Toppleton was blessed with a great name, which he had received ready-made from his illustrious father, late head of the legal firm of Toppleton, Morley, Harkins, Perkins, Mawson, Bronson, Smithers and Hicks. To the agent's credit be it said that when Hopkins Toppleton came along and desired to rent the apartment for office use his first impulse was to make a clean breast of the matter, and to say to him that in his own opinion and that of others the room was haunted and had been so for many years; but when he reflected that his conscience, such as it was, along with the rest of his being, was in the employ of the proprietors of the building, he felt that it was his duty to hold his peace.
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- 34263
- author: O'Donnell, Elliott
- title: The Banshee
- date: None
- words: 53769
- flesch: 68
- summary: When I was alone I hurried past, often with my eyes shut; and at night time, I am not ashamed to admit, I often ran. There are other old Scottish family ghosts, all very distinct from the Banshee, though a few bear some slight resemblance to it, but as my space is restricted, I will pass on to family ghosts of a more or less similar type that are to be met with in England.
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- 36512
- author: Cruikshank, George
- title: Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers"
- date: None
- words: 27085
- flesch: 59
- summary: The drawings profess to be designed and conjointly executed in this way, by _holy_ spirits or _angels_, and are given as _sacred_ And so with the other parts of the figure, all except the face is _material_; and then to my old enemy in one sense, and _friend_ in another--Napoleon, for I volunteered, and armed myself to assist to keep him from coming over here before I was twenty years of age; and as a caricaturist, what by turning him, sometimes into ridicule, and sometimes, in fact very often I may say, killing him with my sharp etching needle, little Boney used very frequently to give me a good solid bit of meat, and make my pot boil.
- keywords: account; air; alive; answer; apparitions; appearance; atmosphere; author; bargrave; baron; beard; bed; belief; better; bit; black; blue; body; book; brain; business; cabinet; case; cellar; certain; change; character; children; christian; circle; circumstances; clothes; coat; cold; comfort; common; company; consequence; contrary; course; dark; darkness; day; days; death; defoe; different; doubt; drawing; dresses; drummer; duke; earth; evil; eyes; face; fact; family; father; figure; following; form; fortune; friend; frightened; general; gentleman; ghost; god; good; gown; great; hamlet; hand; head; heavy; hold; home; hope; house; husband; important; instance; invisible; iron; kind; known; lady; large; law; leave; left; legs; life; light; like; little; london; long; looking; man; matter; mediums; mind; mrs; natural; nature; new; noises; nonsense; occasion; old; opinion; order; owen; page; parts; people; persons; piece; place; point; poor; popular; present; proper; public; purpose; question; rap; rapping; reader; real; reason; respect; respectable; rest; room; said; saw; second; secret; sense; servants; silk; sort; soul; sound; spirits; spiritual; state; story; strange; subject; supernatural; support; sure; séance; table; test; things; thought; time; tricks; true; veal; walking; way; wesley; white; wife; wine; woman; words; work; world; writing; years; young
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- 36595
- author: Lewes, Mary L.
- title: Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore
- date: None
- words: 57866
- flesch: 67
- summary: In regard to the haunted house of St. Govan's its history and associations may have had something to do with the manifestations, for, as remarked in the previous chapter, there must be few old houses which have not known strange happenings within their walls. HOW TO KNOW WHOSE LIGHT IT WAS In old times I have heard numbers of elderly people assert that they could tell one whose was the light passing by, and could relate how this was possible; and with my own ears I have heard one man say how his fear of the thing decreased as he came to know its mystery.
- keywords: able; account; ancient; animal; apparition; appearance; astonishment; away; bad; beautiful; bed; bedroom; belief; best; better; bishop; black; bliss; body; book; borrow; bridge; burial; butler; candles; canwyll; captain; cardiganshire; carmarthenshire; carter; case; cat; celtic; century; certain; chapter; character; charm; child; children; church; churchyard; clergyman; close; coffin; coming; common; connection; continued; corpse; cottage; country; course; cross; crowd; cry; curious; dark; darkness; david; davies; day; days; dead; death; description; details; different; dinner; direction; district; dog; dogs; door; doubt; dressing; drew; early; effect; evening; evil; experience; explanation; extraordinary; eyes; fact; fairies; fairy; family; far; farm; farmer; fear; feeling; figure; find; fire; folk; following; footnote; form; friend; frightened; funeral; gate; gentleman; ghost; ghostly; girl; good; grave; great; ground; half; hall; hand; hard; hare; haunted; head; heavy; help; high; hill; history; home; hounds; hour; house; howells; human; husband; idea; ill; imagination; incident; information; inquiries; instance; interesting; john; jones; kind; knowledge; known; lady; landing; large; later; left; legend; length; lestrange; life; lights; like; little; living; local; lonely; long; look; lore; lost; loud; lying; maesyfelin; maid; making; man; matter; means; meet; men; mention; middle; midnight; miles; mind; minister; miss; moment; months; morning; mrs; mysterious; mystery; nature; near; neighbourhood; night; noise; notice; nurse; o'clock; occasion; occult; odd; old; old house; old man; old woman; open; order; origin; outside; owner; parish; particular; parts; pass; passing; past; patient; pembrokeshire; people; person; phantom; place; point; poor; possible; powers; presence; present; question; reading; real; reason; rectory; related; relating; remembered; reply; reputation; respectable; return; rings; river; road; room; saying; seaton; servant; short; sign; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; small; smith; sound; south; spirits; spot; staircase; stairs; stay; stories; story; strange; subject; summer; sunday; supernatural; superstition; sure; tale; talking; teg; terrible; thing; thought; time; toili; tom; town; tradition; trees; true; truth; tylwyth; uncanny; unknown; unusual; usual; vicar; view; village; vision; visit; voice; wales; walk; wall; warning; way; weeks; welsh; west; white; wife; wild; window; wise; witch; witches; woman; words; work; world; yarn; years; young
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- 36991
- author: Mills, Weymer Jay
- title: The ghosts of their ancestors
- date: None
- words: 13428
- flesch: 81
- summary: [Illustration: I Rule by Right] On the wreck of many social thrones--for the town named after the Duke of York passed through numerous transitions the world knows nothing of--Patricia's aunt, Miss Georgina Knickerbocker, had elected to raise her sceptre. Have you ever heard of 'The School for Scandal,' Miss Knickerbocker? she asked, wreathing her face in an inscrutable smile.
- keywords: air; ancestors; answer; arbutus; attic; aunt; autocrat; bag; bells; black; blue; books; brother; cause; chairs; chapter; children; church; city; coat; company; cornbury; court; curtain; cut; daughters; dawn; day; days; dear; dim; dol; door; earth; easter; excitement; eyes; face; faithful; family; fashion; father; feet; figure; fine; flower; friend; garments; georgina; ghost; girl; good; great; green; hair; half; hall; hands; head; heart; high; home; hour; house; illustration; jane; jersey; jerusalem; jonathan; judge; julie; juma; knickerbocker; ladies; lady; leaves; life; lights; like; line; lips; little; long; lord; loud; love; mansion; marine; market; meeting; memory; mind; miss; miss georgina; mittens; moment; mother; mrs; new; niece; night; old; ole; parade; parlor; past; patricia; paul; peace; picture; poor; portrait; pride; quality; richard; room; rose; rumbell; said; scruggins; season; sheridan; sigh; silk; sister; slumnus; small; smile; snograss; social; state; strange; street; sweet; thought; time; tol; town; trenton; vanished; vesey; voice; water; way; white; wind; window; woman; words; world; years; york; young; youth
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- 37857
- author: Castlemon, Harry
- title: The Haunted Mine
- date: None
- words: 84269
- flesch: 90
- summary: He stopped in front of the door, and called out to somebody he left below, Does Mr. Julian Gray live here? Which one of you is Julian Gray? I am, sir. I am delighted to meet you, said he; and he thrust out his hand, into which Julian put his own.
- keywords: act; afraid; answer; arm; bag; bank; banta; bell; best; better; bid; big; bob; book; box; boys; breakfast; bucket; business; busy; bye; camp; care; casper; castlemon; cents; certain; chair; chance; chapter; cigar; city; claus; close; clothes; come; companion; conversation; country; course; day; days; deal; denver; different; dollars; door; dressed; dust; dutch; edward; ellis; express; eyes; face; far; fay; feet; fellows; find; fire; flat; floor; fortune; friends; game; german; ghosts; gibson; glad; gold; good; great; ground; grub; guess; haberstro; half; hand; hard; harry; haunted; head; help; hold; home; hope; horse; hotel; hour; idea; jack; jake; julian; lawyer; lean; leave; left; life; little; live; long; look; looking; lost; louis; luck; man; matter; men; miles; mind; miners; minutes; moment; money; morning; morrow; mountains; mule; near; need; nevins; new; o'clock; office; open; order; pack; papers; partner; pay; pete; pit; place; pocket; pool; pretty; property; provisions; question; ready; revolver; rich; right; room; safe; seat; series; sir; sound; spring; stairs; start; stay; story; street; supper; sure; surprised; talk; telegraph; thing; thinking; thought; time; train; trouble; trunk; truth; try; turning; use; valises; waiting; want; watch; water; way; weeks; wiggins; winter; wish; wonder; word; work; worth; young
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- 38060
- author: Gillmore, Inez Haynes
- title: Out of the Air
- date: None
- words: 50060
- flesch: 88
- summary: And little Lutetia Murray Lindsay will grow up in almost the same surroundings that Susannah Ayer enjoyed. You threw the whole lot of little rooms together to make this big room, Lutetia.
- keywords: afraid; afternoon; aged; ago; air; answer; apartment; arms; avenue; ayer; barn; beautiful; bed; bedroom; best; big; birds; bit; black; blue; book; boston; breakfast; brilliant; broken; building; bureau; business; byan; carbonado; care; cent; chance; cherry; child; city; close; colonial; color; coming; company; conscious; corner; course; cousin; cowler; crowd; curious; cut; dark; david; day; days; dead; deal; dear; decided; deep; desk; dinner; direction; dollars; door; doorway; early; effort; eloise; end; ernestine; evening; experiences; expression; eyes; face; fact; far; feet; fifth; figure; find; floor; flying; folks; forward; france; french; garden; gaze; ghost; girl; glance; glass; glorious; god; good; gratia; gray; great; green; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; hard; hat; head; headache; help; high; home; hot; hour; house; human; hung; hyde; idea; impulse; inside; instant; interval; job; key; kind; know; lady; landlady; late; lawn; lay; left; letter; lewis; life; lighted; like; lindsay; lines; lips; little; live; living; long; long time; longer; look; looking; lost; lot; love; lovely; low; lutetia; lutie; main; man; manner; matter; meadows; means; middle; midnight; mind; miniature; mining; minutes; miss; moment; money; months; mood; morning; mrs; murray; neck; need; new; night; note; number; o'hearn; office; old; open; outside; paper; past; people; person; picture; place; pleasant; point; pond; position; possible; present; pretty; private; question; quick; quiet; quinanog; reading; ready; real; reason; red; rest; return; rich; road; roof; room; rose; safe; second; self; sense; set; short; silence; situation; sleep; slim; small; smile; soft; sound; spash; spink; spirit; square; stairs; stairway; stand; steps; stop; story; straight; street; stretched; sudden; summer; sun; sure; susannah; swift; table; talk; tall; thesis; things; thinking; thought; time; tiny; tomorrow; tone; touch; town; true; upstairs; usual; village; voice; wall; want; warner; washington; water; way; weeks; white; wide; window; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; writing; years; yesterday; york; young
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- 39485
- author: Crowe, Catherine
- title: Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas
- date: None
- words: 66397
- flesch: 69
- summary: His chemicals and other articles, Alfred usually purchased, and he had made acquaintance with several young men, whose society and amusements he availed himself of these opportunities to enjoy. The gentleman considered this not impossible amongst a parcel of thoughtless young men, and appealed to them to make an apology; but one and all, on honour, denied the impeachment.
- keywords: absence; accident; account; acquaintance; adeline; afraid; age; alfred; animal; annie; answer; apparition; appearance; arm; arrival; attention; bautte; bed; belief; benoã; best; black; body; boy; breakfast; brother; brown; business; captain; care; carriage; cart; case; castle; cat; certain; chair; chamber; children; circumstances; close; cold; colman; company; confess; continued; contrary; conversation; coullie; countenance; country; course; cross; curious; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; death; dinner; direction; dog; dogs; donald; door; doubt; drawing; dreadful; dream; dress; early; eldest; england; evening; events; evidence; expected; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fall; family; far; farm; father; figure; fine; fire; floor; following; foot; footsteps; forest; form; fortune; franã§oise; friend; garden; general; gentleman; ghost; girl; givry; god; gone; good; gould; grandfather; grave; great; greathead; half; hand; haunted; head; health; healy; hearing; hedge; high; home; hour; house; husband; idea; ihan; ill; impression; interest; interesting; kitchen; known; ladies; lady; large; lawyer; leave; left; length; letter; life; lignerolles; little; live; living; locked; long; looking; lord; lost; louis; ma'am; madame; maid; man; manner; married; mary; matter; means; meeting; men; miles; mind; moment; money; monsieur; morning; mother; mrs; mungo; nature; near; neighbourhood; new; night; o'clock; object; occasion; officer; old; old man; open; opinion; opportunity; opposite; order; paris; particular; party; pay; people; period; person; place; poor; possible; post; present; pretty; property; quarter; question; reason; regiment; related; relation; remarkable; road; rob; robertson; room; round; sandy; secret; seeing; servants; shiels; short; silent; similar; singular; sir; sister; sleep; small; spot; stairs; standing; state; story; strange; street; strong; subject; sure; surprise; table; talking; thing; thinking; thought; time; town; truth; turn; turning; uncle; usual; view; visit; voice; walk; wall; want; watch; way; week; white; wife; wills; window; wish; woman; word; years; young; zwengler
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- 39769
- author: Tweedale, Violet
- title: Ghosts I Have Seen, and Other Psychic Experiences
- date: None
- words: 87753
- flesch: 77
- summary: That is one of several ways by which I distinguish it from other rooms. The auras of such men are naturally great, because such contrasts of light and shade only come in the lives of men possessed of great and lofty ideals.
- keywords: abnormal; absolute; accepted; action; actual; afternoon; age; alas; alive; ancient; angel; answer; answered; apparition; appearance; arm; astral; atmosphere; attention; attitude; aura; avenue; awakened; aware; away; bare; bathroom; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedroom; beginning; belief; best; better; big; black; blavatsky; blind; blood; body; book; box; boy; bright; brilliant; british; broken; brother; brown; business; caithness; candle; case; castle; catch; certain; chair; chambers; chance; chapter; charles; charming; children; christ; church; circumstances; claire; clear; close; cold; colin; coming; common; complete; conclusion; condition; connection; consciousness; considerable; constant; conversation; convinced; corner; corridor; country; couple; courage; course; court; covered; creation; creatures; crime; cromartie; cross; crowd; curiosity; curious; dark; darkness; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; deal; death; decided; deep; desire; determined; different; difficulty; dining; dinner; disembodied; distance; distant; disturbed; divine; doctor; dog; door; doubt; doubtless; downstairs; drawing; dream; dress; dressed; drop; drove; duchess; dwelling; early; earth; east; easy; edinburgh; end; england; english; enormous; entity; eternal; eternity; evening; evil; evolution; existence; experience; explanation; expression; eyes; face; fact; faith; fallen; familiar; family; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; figure; fine; fire; flaming; flesh; flight; floor; following; footsteps; force; forgotten; form; france; free; french; friend; friendship; future; garden; gentleman; genuine; ghost; girl; gladstone; glamis; glass; god; gold; golden; good; grand; grave; gray; great; greatest; green; guest; half; hall; hand; happenings; hard; haunted; head; hearing; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hidden; hideous; high; higher; history; hold; home; hope; horizon; horrible; horror; horses; hostess; hotel; hour; house; household; huge; human; humanity; husband; idea; incident; infinite; inside; interested; interesting; intervals; invisible; key; keys; kind; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; landing; large; later; lay; leave; left; length; life; like; little; lives; living; lodge; london; long; longer; looking; lord; lost; love; lovely; madame; maid; majesty; major; man; manner; mare; material; matter; means; medium; member; memory; mental; mention; mere; middle; mighty; mind; minutes; miss; modern; moment; money; month; morning; mother; moths; moving; mrs; murder; music; mystery; mystic; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; neighborhood; new; night; noise; normal; north; number; nurse; o'clock; occasion; occult; occupied; offer; old; open; opening; order; ordinary; outside; owner; pale; paper; parents; particular; party; passage; passing; past; path; peculiar; people; perfect; period; person; personal; phenomena; physical; pilgrims; place; play; point; pompey; poor; position; possessed; possession; possible; power; presence; present; prince; psychic; public; pure; purpose; puzzled; queen; question; quiet; reading; real; reason; recollection; region; regret; religion; remains; reply; residence; return; rise; road; robert; room; rose; round; russian; sacred; save; scene; scotch; scotland; scream; search; second; secret; seeing; self; sensation; sense; servants; set; shadow; shut; silence; silent; silk; silver; sinclair; single; sister; sitting; sleep; small; society; soldier; sort; soul; sounds; south; space; spirit; spiritual; spot; staircase; stairs; standing; stay; stewart; stone; story; straight; strange; street; strong; subject; sudden; suggestion; summer; supreme; sure; table; tall; tea; terrible; terror; things; thinking; thought; threshold; time; tired; touch; town; tragedy; trouble; true; truth; uncomfortable; understood; universe; unknown; unpleasant; unseen; unusual; upstairs; usual; utter; valori; vanished; vast; veil; view; violent; vision; visit; voice; wait; waking; walk; walls; weather; week; west; white; wide; wife; wild; william; window; winter; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; writing; wrong; wynford; years; young
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- 40453
- author: Marsh, Richard
- title: Tom Ossington's Ghost
- date: None
- words: 49879
- flesch: 88
- summary: As Mr. Graham said this, for some reason or other at least two of its hearers shivered; Ella clasped her hands more tightly as they lay upon her knee, and the expression of Madge's wide-open eyes grew more intense. Don't be so tiresome, Madge; tell us what it is? Mr. Graham is right--it is a legal document.
- keywords: afraid; air; answer; appearance; arm; arms; aware; baby; bad; ballingall; bed; bedroom; best; better; bit; blood; book; brodie; bruce; burglar; business; care; case; cat; certain; chair; chapter; charles; charlie; cheeks; child; circumstances; clover; common; companion; conscious; continued; corner; cottage; course; creature; cry; curious; cut; day; dead; dear; document; dog; door; doubt; ella; explanation; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fashion; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; find; fingers; fire; floor; fortune; friend; gaol; gentleman; ghost; girl; giving; glance; god; good; graham; great; half; hand; handle; hard; hat; haunted; head; heart; help; hidden; hiding; hold; home; hope; hour; house; hurley; husband; i'm; impression; inside; jack; key; kind; kitchen; lady; large; laugh; leave; left; lessons; life; like; likely; lips; little; long; look; looking; madge; man; manner; martyn; matter; meaning; means; mercy; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; music; mystery; need; nicholls; night; odd; officer; old; open; ossington; panel; paper; person; piece; place; plain; pocket; point; policeman; position; possible; presence; present; property; question; rate; reason; revolver; road; room; round; run; said; saying; search; second; sense; set; share; shoulder; silence; sitting; situation; small; sort; stand; standing; story; straight; strange; strength; sudden; sure; table; taking; tea; tell; thing; time; tom; tone; turn; turning; visitor; voice; wainscot; wall; wandsworth; way; wife; window; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; writing; years; young
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- 40729
- author: Dickens, Charles
- title: "Old Scrooge": A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story.
- date: None
- words: 14802
- flesch: 99
- summary: Uncle Scrooge, uncle Scrooge! (_Scrooge seems to make efforts to reply to the toast, while spirit drags him away._) CURTAIN. My wife, your niece--Yes, you may. (_Scrooge kisses her._)
- keywords: 1st; act; bed; belinda; belle; better; black; bob; boy; business; chair; change; children; christmas; coat; cratchit; day; dead; dear; desk; discovered; door; dress; end; exeunt; father; fellow; fezziwig; fire; flat; fred; ghost; god; good; great; half; halloo; hands; happy; hat; head; heart; home; hope; house; jacob; james; joe; julia; kemper; large; life; little; live; long; love; man; marley; martha; men; merry; mother; mrs; new; night; old; outside; page; past; peter; place; poor; room; scene; scro; scrooge; sir; small; spirit; sure; table; things; time; tiny; topper; turkey; uncle; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; work; world; year; young
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- 40823
- author: O'Donnell, Elliott
- title: Ghostly Phenomena
- date: None
- words: 36121
- flesch: 64
- summary: I have frequently seen phantasms of the dead both in haunted houses and elsewhere. If spirits can manifest themselves in haunted houses without the assistance of a medium, or the necessity of sitting round tables with joined hands, or facing curtained off recesses or mysterious cabinets--why cannot they thus simply manifest themselves at a _séance_?
- keywords: account; actual; air; animal; antagonistic; apparition; appearance; astonishment; away; banshee; beautiful; bed; bedroom; benevolent; big; blood; body; book; boy; brother; case; certain; chapter; chest; child; clanogrians; clifford; close; clothes; cold; country; course; curious; dalrymple; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; def; different; distance; disturbances; dog; door; doubt; dreams; dublin; earth; elementals; england; evening; evil; example; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; fear; featherstone; feeling; feet; figure; floor; following; footsteps; forces; form; friend; frightened; furniture; garden; ghosts; good; great; grey; ground; hair; half; hand; haunted; hauntings; head; hearing; heavy; high; home; horror; house; human; husband; idea; impersonating; impressed; incident; inclined; instance; kind; known; lady; landing; large; left; letter; life; lights; like; little; living; london; long; looking; luminous; man; manifestations; manner; material; matter; means; mind; miss; moment; morbas; morning; mother; mrs; murder; nature; near; new; night; noises; number; numerous; o'clock; objective; occasion; occurrence; old; open; opinion; opposite; order; outside; page; parsonage; passages; past; peculiar; people; phantasms; phantom; phenomena; place; possible; powers; presence; present; probability; psychic; question; regard; relative; rev; road; room; sea; seeing; sensations; silence; similar; sister; sitting; sleep; soul; sound; species; spirits; spot; square; standing; stewart; stone; story; strange; street; suggestion; suicide; superphysical; sure; séances; tall; terror; thing; thought; time; town; type; vagrarian; vice; vicious; visit; walking; wall; warnings; way; west; white; wife; window; woman; work; world; writing; years; yellow
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- 41739
- author: Barnett, C. Z. (Charles Zachary)
- title: A Christmas Carol; Or, The Miser's Warning! (Adapted from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Work.)
- date: None
- words: 11078
- flesch: 96
- summary: _Enter DARK SAM, L. H._ SAM. _Enter FRANK, L. H._ FRANK.
- keywords: 1st; 2nd; acts; approaches; better; black; bob; boy; chair; cheer; children; christmas; coat; comedy; coming; cratchit; dark; day; dead; dear; dinner; door; dream; ellen; enter; exit; family; fire; frank; ghost; girl; good; goose; half; hand; happy; head; heart; hope; house; humbug; joe; life; little; long; love; man; marley; martha; men; merry; mind; miser; modern; money; mother; mrs; new; night; old; past; place; points; poor; present; price; pudding; room; round; sam; scene; scr; scrooge; shillings; sir; spirit; stage; sure; table; theatre; things; time; tiny; uncle; want; wife; work; year; york
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- 42566
- author: Parkes, William Theodore
- title: The Spook Ballads
- date: None
- words: 41042
- flesch: 84
- summary: He killed ze man in duel! The buds of my bouquet! Said she to me ta ta! Go home to your mamma!
- keywords: "--_the; advance; alack; arm; arms; author; aye; bad; ballads; band; bank; barney; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedroom; best; better; big; binks; blood; bloomin; blow; blue; bobbie; book; bore; bottle; bouncer; boy; boys; bradey; bride; bright; broken; captain; car; care; case; cashier; castlebar; cat; certain; chance; chancerie; charge; child; clever; clock; co.; cockatoo; cold; collar; colonel; comin; constable; cook; corney; couple; court; crack; crown; cry; curious; curse; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deed; deep; die; doctor; donkeys; doom; door; doth; double; drink; dublin; duel; earth; end; evening; evil; eye; eyes; face; fact; fairy; faith; fall; fame; fare; farmer; fate; father; feet; fire; fist; fit; fitz; foot; foreign; fortune; free; friend; fun; future; fytte; game; gay; genuine; german; gev; ghost; girl; glass; glee; golden; good; grand; great; green; grin; grip; hail; hair; half; hampton; hand; hat; hate; head; heart; heigho; hide; high; hill; hiram; home; honest; hope; horror; hour; house; howld; humour; illustrated; illustration; irish; jabez; jim; john; jones; jury; keen; kind; kiss; l.r.c.p; lady; lamp; land; late; laugh; law; lay; leave; left; length; life; like; line; little; lobby; london; lonely; long; longer; look; lord; loud; love; macfee; maiden; man; mare; mate; mckune; men; meself; midnight; mind; mister; mit; moment; moon; moral; morning; mother; murder; music; near; neck; need; new; news; night; noah; nose; note; o'byrne; o'er; o'gorman; o'toole; oath; old; open; pair; papers; parkes; pat; patrick; pay; people; piano; pile; place; play; pleasant; polis; poor; pounds; presence; present; quaint; queen; quick; quoth; readers; red; remarkable; ring; road; rollicking; room; rose; rough; round; royal; ruction; run; sad; said; sea; seat; second; self; semi; sergeant; set; shock; shout; sigh; silver; sir; sire; siz; sky; small; smile; social; sojer; soldier; song; sonnet; sort; soul; spake; spirit; spook; spring; sprite; staball; stair; stand; start; state; stick; story; stranger; street; strife; strong; style; sudden; suit; sun; sure; sweet; tail; tears; tell; thee; thim; think; thought; thro; thunder; till; time; tint; tis; tommins; town; tramp; tree; trick; troubadour; true; turn; twas; vein; verse; vill; voice; volume; von; vos; vot; want; war; water; way; wealth; whin; wid; wife; wig; wild; window; wint; wish; wit; woe; woman; words; work; world; wot; writ; wrong; yer; young; zare; zat
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- 44397
- author: O'Donnell, Elliott
- title: Haunted Places in England
- date: None
- words: 57006
- flesch: 81
- summary: Suddenly I heard a sound--a sound, familiar enough at other times; but, at this hour, and in this place, everything seemed different. As no one happened to be going out just then, the trunk was pushed on one side, and the Parminters, having many other things to occupy their minds, did not give it another thought.
- keywords: 8vo; able; account; afternoon; agency; alarmed; animals; arms; atmosphere; attention; bed; bedroom; beeches; beryl; better; big; bit; black; body; box; boy; brandy; broken; brown; case; casson; cat; centre; certain; chair; change; chapter; children; close; coat; cold; come; cookham; coombe; cough; county; course; craddock; cupboard; curious; dark; darkness; davy; day; days; dead; death; deep; different; direction; distance; dog; door; doubt; dyer; early; effect; eldred; elizabeth; end; ephraim; evening; experience; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; felt; figure; fingers; fire; fitzsimmons; floor; following; footsteps; form; forward; friend; frightened; garden; gas; gate; gentleman; george; getting; ghost; ghoul; girl; god; good; great; green; griffiths; gyp; hack; half; hall; hands; hard; haunted; hauntings; head; heart; help; henry; high; history; hold; hollow; home; horror; hour; house; human; idea; influence; inside; intense; jane; john; june; kind; kitchen; knocks; know; lady; landing; large; leave; leethwaite; left; legs; length; life; like; little; live; living; loft; london; long; longer; look; looking; loud; love; mad; man; manner; mansfield; matter; member; middle; mill; mind; minutes; miss; moment; months; moon; moonlight; morgan; morning; mother; mrs; murder; mystery; nature; near; nearer; neck; nerves; net; new; night; noises; norfolk; o'clock; object; occasion; old; open; opinion; outside; parminter; parry; parsonage; parsons; particular; past; pelamon; people; person; phoebe; picture; pines; place; pool; poor; possible; present; pretty; price; probability; public; queer; question; rattling; raven; reason; reply; rest; rev; reynolds; road; robert; room; rose; round; rum; said; school; second; sense; servants; service; set; shadows; shoes; sickertorft; silence; sir; sitting; sleeping; small; smith; soft; sounds; spirits; spot; square; stairs; stand; state; stay; stepping; stewart; stones; strange; stream; street; subject; sudden; suggestion; superphysical; sure; surprise; syderstone; tap; tell; terrible; terror; theatre; thing; thinking; thomas; thought; time; tired; trees; true; trunk; truth; unable; upstairs; usual; vane; view; violent; voice; walk; wall; water; way; week; white; wife; wilfred; window; woman; wood; work; wotherall; years; young
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- 44625
- author: Carrington, Hereward
- title: True Ghost Stories
- date: None
- words: 51870
- flesch: 75
- summary: Bed time came. Miss A. S. Verity also furnishes this corroborative statement: I remember my sister telling me that she had seen S. H. B. and that he touched her hair, before he came to see us on April 2.
- keywords: a.m.; account; advanced; alive; animals; answer; apartment; apparition; appearance; appendix; arm; arms; astonishment; atmosphere; awake; bed; bedroom; best; black; blackburn; blood; body; book; brain; bridge; bruce; burning; candle; captain; cases; cause; ceiling; centers; certain; chair; chapter; character; child; church; claughton; clear; close; clothes; cold; conclusion; conscious; consciousness; corner; corpse; country; course; curious; dark; darkness; date; day; days; dead; death; deep; distance; dog; door; drawing; dream; dress; earth; effect; england; english; esther; evening; event; evidence; example; existence; experience; explanation; extinguished; eyes; face; fact; family; famous; far; father; fear; features; feeling; feet; figure; fingers; fire; fisher; floor; following; foot; footsteps; force; form; forward; friend; general; george; ghost; ghostly; gone; good; grave; great; half; hallucination; hand; haunted; head; hearing; heavy; help; high; history; home; horrible; horror; hours; house; human; idea; impression; incident; instant; interesting; invisible; known; lady; large; later; leaving; left; letter; life; like; little; living; london; long; looking; lord; man; manifestations; manner; marquis; material; matter; mental; midnight; mind; minutes; miss; moment; months; morning; mother; mrs; narrative; nature; near; new; night; noise; number; o'clock; object; occasion; occurrence; old; open; outside; passage; past; peculiar; people; person; phantasms; phantom; phenomena; physical; picture; place; point; possible; power; presence; present; proceedings; proved; psychical; question; real; reality; reason; record; remarkable; research; result; return; road; room; rose; round; saw; scientific; second; seeing; sensation; sense; servant; shadow; shape; shock; short; shoulders; sir; sister; slate; sleep; sleeping; small; society; soft; solid; soul; sounds; space; speak; spirit; spiritual; spoken; spot; stairs; stead; stories; story; strange; strong; supposed; table; telepathic; terror; theories; theory; thing; thinking; thought; time; transference; true; view; vision; visit; visitor; voice; wall; way; weeks; white; wide; wife; window; woman; words; work; world; writing; years; young
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- 45362
- author: Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. (Thomas Firminger)
- title: The Ghost World
- date: None
- words: 89647
- flesch: 69
- summary: Among rude races the original idea of the human soul seems to have been that of vaporous materiality, which, as Dr. Tylor observes,[4] has held so large a place in modern philosophy, and in one shape or another crops up in ghost stories. The black ribbon was formerly in the possession of Lady Betty Cobb, who, during her long life, was ever ready to attest the truth of this narration, as are, to the present hour, the whole of the Tyrone and Beresford families.[224] As Mr. Andrew Lang points out in the 'Nineteenth Century,'[225] Lord Tyrone merely did what many ghosts had done before in the matter of touching Lady Beresford's wrist.
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- 46647
- author: Dickinson, Sidney
- title: True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural
- date: None
- words: 40406
- flesch: 66
- summary: If this were not the case, it seems singular that manifestations of a like nature did not present themselves at other times and in other places. The parlor contained a fine piano, and several pictures of merit adorned the walls; heat (seldom necessary in that mild climate except on rainy days in autumn and winter) was furnished to this and other rooms by open fireplaces, and vases and other _bric-a-brac_ stood upon the mantels; the bed and table linen was all of excellent quality, there was a sufficiency of crockery and glass and silverware and culinary utensils:--and as we sat down to our inauguratory dinner, and contrasted our condition with the three years' previous experience of travel and steamer and hotel life in all parts of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania and the Fiji Islands, we congratulated each other that we had found a home indeed.
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- 59872
- author: Waterworth, E. M.
- title: Our Den
- date: None
- words: 16014
- flesch: 90
- summary: He called it his den, but it was the jolliest place in the house, except---- Except when Rupert went into a rage and hit Harold, then father told him to meet him in his study, and you should have seen Rupert's face, interposed Jack. Don't you fret, auntie, said Jack, who had been capering about, and leaving little rivulets of water wherever he went.
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- 6027
- author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- title: In the Closed Room
- date: None
- words: 11636
- flesch: 92
- summary: Jane Foster, sweltering at her machine, was obliged to stop every few minutes to wipe the beads from her face and neck. Well, it seems still up here--and kind of dead, Jane Foster replied with her habitual sociable half-laugh.
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- 61158
- author: Hartzell, H. A.
- title: Death and Taxes
- date: None
- words: 4813
- flesch: 87
- summary: Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Masterson are widely respected. The Scotch whiskey and rum toffee Jerry could see a reason for--but not the plaid skirt.
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- 9312
- author: Barr, Robert
- title: From Whose Bourne
- date: None
- words: 30117
- flesch: 86
- summary: The party had been one given on Christmas Eve, and as it was now two o'clock in the morning, the departing guests were wishing Mrs. Brenton a merry Christmas. Finally, the door closed on the last of the revellers, and Mrs. Brenton stood for a moment giving instructions to the sleepy servants; then, with a tired sigh, she turned and went upstairs, Brenton walking by her side until they came to the darkened room, which she entered on tiptoe.
- keywords: advice; afraid; answer; argus; bed; benham; best; better; book; brenton; brown; business; capsules; case; certain; chair; chapter; chicago; christmas; cincinnati; city; coffee; course; crime; cup; day; dead; dear; death; defence; detective; dinner; doctor; door; dream; experience; eyes; face; fact; feeling; fellow; ferris; friend; george; girl; glad; good; grains; great; guilty; hand; hope; house; husband; illustration; interview; jane; john; jury; lawyers; leave; lecocq; left; life; little; long; look; man; matter; mind; moment; money; morning; morphia; morton; motive; mrs; murder; newspaper; office; old; people; person; place; point; poison; possible; prisoner; question; quinine; reason; residence; right; roland; room; sheriff; sir; sorry; speed; stephen; stratton; suicide; sure; table; talk; thing; thought; time; track; trial; trouble; way; wife; william; wish; woman; world; wrong; young
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