Horror

Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

The Case of James Durham--The Grey Dog of ---- House, Birmingham--The Dog in the Cupboard--How the Ghost of a Dog saved Life--A Precentor's Adventure--Phantom Dog seen on Souter Fell--The Jumping Ghost--Dogs seen before a Death--A Dog scared by a Canine Ghost--The Phantom Dach...

Chapters

20. Chapter 20

One of the most extraordinary cases of hauntings by the phantasms of dogs is related in an old Christmas number of the _Review of Reviews_, edited by the late Mr. W.T. Stead, an...

21. Chapter 21

I take my first case from Mr. W.T. Stead's _Real Ghost Stories_, published in 1891. It is called "A Weird Story from the Indian Hills," and Mr. Stead preludes it thus: The "tale...

23. Chapter 23

"I sank wearily into my easy chair before the fire, which burned with a fitful and sullen glow in the tiny grate of my one room--bare and desolate as only the room of an unsucce...

19. Chapter 19

I had a collie who lived to a good old age. She was deaf and infirm, and one hind-leg was paralysed, so that it dragged as she walked. I was taken ill, not seriously, nor so as...

25. Chapter 25

We all know that vultures, kites and crows scent dead bodies from a great way off, but we don't all know that these and other kinds of birds possess, in addition, the psychic pr...

24. Chapter 24

Elephants undoubtedly possess the faculty of scenting spirits in a very marked degree. It is most difficult to get an elephant to pass a spot where any phantasm is known to appe...

9. Chapter 9

My informant was a Mrs. Hartnoll, whom I can see in my mind's eye, as distinctly as if I were looking at her now. Hers was a personality that no lapse of time, nothing could eff...

22. Chapter 22

From the Hebrides there comes to me a case of the phantasm of a black bull, that, on certain nights in the year, is heard bellowing inside the shed where it was killed.

26. Chapter 26

If I have failed to convince my readers as to the reality of a future existence for all species of mammalia, I trust I have at least suggested to them the idea of probability in...

15. Chapter 15

My wife, writes Mr. Ellis, who was brought up in Germany, and who is not sufficiently confident about her English to attempt to put down anything for publication in that languag...

18. Chapter 18

One evening in February, 1906, my son and I were quietly reading, in full gaslight, our small grey cat lying on the sofa a short distance from where I sat. Suddenly I saw on my...

14. Chapter 14

He was an only child and spent much of his time in the company of a cat who shared his tastes and pursuits even to the extent of fishing in the River Weir with him, the cat bein...

16. Chapter 16

Two or three years ago I visited a medium (Mrs. Davies of 44 Laburnum Grove, Portsmouth). I had been seated only a few minutes when a little pug-dog of hers looked up in the dir...

13. Chapter 13

Cook said, "I wish you would come downstairs and see how strangely Kitty behaves as soon as I open the cupboard. There is nothing in it but the wood; I turned it all out to see...

17. Chapter 17

Some five years ago we had a little puppy about six months old. I used to train him to always go round the back way to come into the house. One day he got hurt and run over, bei...

10. Chapter 10

One evening about four years ago I was in my drawing-room with two friends; we were all standing up on the point of going to bed, and only waiting till the old cook had succeede...

11. Chapter 11

Three or four years ago, Iona and I were sitting in the drawing-room on a Sunday evening, when cook came in to ask for Kitty (a silver-grey Persian cat) to settle him in the kit...

2. Chapter 2

The Case of James Durham--The Grey Dog of ---- House, Birmingham--The Dog in the Cupboard--How the Ghost of a Dog saved Life--A Precentor's Adventure--Phantom Dog seen on Souter...

12. Chapter 12

I remember that I saw something like a dark shadow move very quickly and disappear in front of a cottage piano. I exclaimed simultaneously with my friends "What was that?" and s...

3. Chapter 3

A Phantom Cavalcade--The Miller on the Grey Horse--A Phantom Horse and Rider--The White Horse of Eastover--The Afrikander's Story--Heralds of Death--Phantom Coach in U.S.A.--A S...

1. Chapter 1

5. Chapter 5

7. Chapter 7

4. Chapter 4

6. Chapter 6

8. Chapter 8