Category: Short Stories
CHAP. PAGE I. THE CHAIR 7 II. THE HEAD 26 III. THE CUPBOARD 39 IV. THE EMPTY LEASH 52 V. THE DRESSING-ROOM 63 VI. THE RETICULE 77 VII. THE COOMBE 95 VIII. THE TRUNK 110 IX. THE COUGH 124 X. THE SYDERSTONE HAUNTINGS 132 XI. THE GREEN VAPOUR 161 XII. THE STEPPING-STONES 188 XIII...
Near Bournemouth there is a house called the Caspar Beeches that never lets for any length of time. It has a very remarkable history, which, in the words of Mr. Mark Wildbridge,...
11. CHAPTER XSome years ago I published in a work entitled _Ghostly Phenomena_ (Werner Laurie & Co.) an account, sent me by the late Rev. Henry Hacon, M.A., of Searly Vicarage, North Kelsey...
13. CHAPTER XIIBetween Coalbrookdale and the Wrekin, in a charmingly wooded valley, flows a stream crossed by seven stepping-stones, and on one bank of the stream are the ruins of what was onc...
7. CHAPTER VIBetween Norwich and Swaffham, low down in a little valley, there once stood a mill. It is now a ruin, and all the people round studiously avoid it after nightfall. It must be ad...
14. CHAPTER XIII"Who is the most interesting person in this institution?" my friend Dr. Custance remarked, repeating my words. "If you mean from your point of view--ghosts, I should say Dacre,...
2. CHAPTER II am not a psychometrist--at least not to any great extent. I cannot pick up a small object--say an old ring or coin--and straightway tell you its history, describing all the pe...
6. CHAPTER VThe idea of a theatre being haunted--a theatre where everything is bright and everyone full of life--must, for the moment, strike one as preposterous. Why, the mere thought of t...
8. CHAPTER VIIPeople are not half particular enough about new houses. So long as the soil is gravel, so long as the rooms are large and airy, the wall-papers artistic, and there's no basement...
3. CHAPTER IISome few years ago, two men were trudging along a road, not twenty miles from Sudbury, swearing heartily. It was not the first time they had sworn, not by any means, but it is e...
9. CHAPTER VIIIThe other day I went to a matinée at "The St. James's." I am fond of French Revolutionary plays, and _The Aristocrat_ appealed to me, not only by reason of its picturesqueness,...
4. CHAPTER IIIPeople often wonder why new houses--houses without any apparent history--should suddenly begin to be haunted, often by a variety of very alarming phenomena, and then, just as su...
5. CHAPTER IVI have so often been accused of writing too exclusively about the horrid types of spirit, such as earth-bound murderers, suicides, and elements, that I am more than pleased to b...
10. CHAPTER IXI know a man called Harrison. So, in all probability, do you; so, in all probability, do most people. But it is not everyone, I imagine, that knows a Harrison who delights in th...
1. Chapter X.), in connection with the hauntings, are fictitious.CHAP. PAGE I. THE CHAIR 7 II. THE HEAD 26 III. THE CUPBOARD 39 IV. THE EMPTY LEASH 52 V. THE DRESSING-ROOM 63 VI. THE RETICULE 77 VII. THE COOMBE 95 VIII. THE TRUNK 110 IX. THE...