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Famous Modern Ghost Stories
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Famous Modern Ghost Stories, by Various, Edited by Emily Dorothy Scarborough
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Title: Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Author: Various
Release Date: February 22, 2005 [eBook #15143]
Language: English
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FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STORIES
Selected, with an Introduction by
DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, PH.D.
Lecturer in English, Columbia University
Author of The Supernatural In Modern English Fiction, Fugitive Verses, From A Southern Porch, etc. Compiler of Humorous Ghost Stories G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press
1921
To
ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, LITT. D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
WHO GUIDED MY EARLIER STUDIES IN THE SUPERNATURAL
The Imperishable Ghost
INTRODUCTION
Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitalit
