The Best Ghost Stories

Author: Various Authors
Published: 1919
Language: English
Wordcount: 82,126 / 222 pg
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 84.5
LoC Category: PN
Downloads: 91,404
Added to site: 2006.03.02
mnybks.net#: 13007
Origin: gutenberg.org

Introduction by Arthur B. Reeve
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

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ould often say, Mrs. Bargrave, you are not only the best, but the only friend I have in the world, and no circumstances of life shall ever dissolve my friendship. They would often condole each other's adverse fortunes, and read together Drelincourt upon Death, and other good books; and so, like two Christian friends, they comforted each other under their sorrow.

Some time after, Mr. Veal's friends got him a place in the custom-house at Dover, which occasioned Mrs. Veal, by little and little, to fall off from her intimacy with Mrs. Bargrave, though there was never any such thing as a quarrel; but an indifferency came on by degrees, till at last Mrs. Bargrave had not seen her in two years and a half; though above a twelvemonth of the time Mrs. Bargrave hath been absent from Dover, and this last half year has been in Canterbury about two months of the time, dwelling in a house of her own.

In this house, on the 8th of September, 1705, she was sitting alone in the forenoon, thinking over her unfortun

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The Damned thing was excellent, but all the others were tosh.

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