# Austin and His Friends

Author: Balfour, Frederic Henry, 1846-1909

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16099

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Austin+and+His+Friends+Balfour&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The old-fashioned ghost-story was always terrifying and ghastly; something that made people afraid to go to bed, or to look over their shoulders, or to enter a room in the dark. It dealt with apparitions in a white sheet, and clanking chains, and dreadful faces that peered out from behind the window curtains in a haunted chamber. And the more blood-curdling it was, the more keenly people enjoyed it--until they were left alone, and then they were apt to wish that they had been reading Robinson Crusoe or Alison's History of Europe instead. Now the present book embodies an attempt to write a _cheerful_ ghost-story; a story in which the ghostly element is of a friendly and pleasant character,...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/austin-and-his-friends-16099/chapters/16/index.md)