The Haunted Hour: An Anthology

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On Kingston Bridge the starlight shone Through hurrying mists in shrouded glow; The boding night-wind made its moan, The mighty river crept below. 'Twas All Souls' Night, and to...

As I sat musing by the frozen dyke, There was one man marching with a bright steel pike, Marching in the daylight, like a ghost came he, And behind me was the moaning and the mu...

In from the ocean the white fog creeps, Blotting out ship, and rock, and tree, While wrapped in its shroud, from the soundless deeps, Back to the land come the lost at sea.

Sir Ingoldsby (now no longer Bray) Is off like a shot away and away, Over the brine To far Palestine, To rummage and hunt over Ascalon plain For the unburied bones of his victim...

They say that she died of a broken heart (I tell the tale as 'twas told to me); But her spirit lives, and her soul is part Of this sad old house by the sea.

If a leaf rustled she would start: And yet she died, a year ago. How had so frail a thing the heart To journey where she trembled so? And do they turn and turn in fright, Those...

"And did it go up by the town, Or went it down by the lake? I know there are but two church yards Where a corpse its rest may take."

Yet his plate-jack was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore: At his saddle-girth was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more.

Bacon, Josephine Daskam, 25 Ballad of Douglas Bridge, 43 Ballad of Hallowe'en, 7 Ballad of Judas Iscariot, The, 205 Ballad of the Buried Sword, 39 Banshee, The, 183 Barham, Rich...