Category: Short Stories

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

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Chapters

6. Chapter 6

So has the little church lain unnoticed for many centuries; for the horrors and follies of the Revolution have never come near, and the hardy and faithful people of Finisterre h...

4. Chapter 4

And then the footsteps came down the room lightly, towards the window; there was a pause, and then the great shutters swung back, and the white moonlight poured in. Its brillian...

3. Chapter 3

Yes, It was there. He knew that It would be. It seemed quite natural, he would have been disappointed had he seen nothing; but now he knew that the story was true, knew that he...

2. Chapter 2

It was not easy; why did I eat that lettuce salad at Pere Garceau's? I should have known better. It was making me irresistibly sleepy, and wakefulness was absolutely necessary....

5. Chapter 5

"With the utmost craft they arranged their plans together. They could not speak, for a word would have aroused the other inmates of the convent. They could make signs only when...

1. Chapter 1

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7. Chapter 7

"As far as the eye could see stretched a level plain of ashy white, faintly phosphorescent, a sea of velvet fog that lay like motionless water, or rather like a floor of alabast...

8. Chapter 8

HIS BROKEN SWORD. A novel. With an introduction by Edward Everett Hale. Printed at the University Press on American laid paper. 12mo. Gilt top, deckled edges. 354 pp. $1.25. _Th...