A Book Of Ghosts
by S. Baring-Gould
★★★★★No ratings yet
Language: English
Sign in to rate this book.
Sign in to shelve this book.
About this eBook
- Author
- Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
- Title
- A Book of Ghosts
- Credits
- Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Ghost stories, English
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36638
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36638
- Release Date
- July 6, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A BOOK OF GHOSTS
- 2.BY S. BARING-GOULD, M.A. — WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY D. MURRAY SMITH — SECOND EDITION — METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON — Colonial Library — First Published October 1904 Second Edition December 1904 — "WHO ARE YOU?"
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.A BOOK OF GHOSTS
- 7.JEAN BOUCHON — "JEAN BOUCHON MORT SUR LE CHAMP DE GLOIRE 1870 DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI."
- 8.POMPS AND VANITIES — THEN THE BRIDE PUT BACK HER VEIL, AND BETTY, STUDYING THE WHITE FACE, SAW THAT THIS ACTUALLY WAS NOT HERSELF; IT WAS HER DEAD SISTER LETICE.
- 9.McALISTER
- 10.THE LEADEN RING — HER HAT WAS BLOWN OFF, AND NEXT INSTANT A DETONATION RANG THROUGH HER HEAD AS THOUGH A GUN HAD BEEN FIRED INTO HER EAR.
- 11.THE MOTHER OF PANSIES
- 12.THE RED-HAIRED GIRL — A WIFE'S STORY
- 13.A PROFESSIONAL SECRET — IF HE WENT OUT FOR A WALK THEY TROTTED FORTH WITH HIM, SOME BEFORE, SOME FOLLOWING.
- 14.H. P.
- 15.GLÁMR
- 16.COLONEL HALIFAX'S GHOST STORY
- 17.THE MEREWIGS
- 18.THE "BOLD VENTURE"
- 19.MUSTAPHA — I — II — III — IV — "YOU LET THAT MUSTAPHA COME IN, AND TRY AND STICK HIS KNIFE INTO ME."
- 20.LITTLE JOE GANDER — "MAMMY," SAID HE, "MAMMY, MY VIOLIN COST THREE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, AND I CAN'T MAKE IT PLAY NOWAYS."
- 21.A DEAD FINGER — I — II — III — IV
- 22.BLACK RAM
- 23.A HAPPY RELEASE — "I BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE TALKING GOODY-GOODY."
- 24.THE 9.30 UP-TRAIN
- 25.ON THE LEADS
- 26.AUNT JOANNA — SHE THRUST HER HAND INTO THE TEAPOT AND DREW FORTH THE COINS, ONE BY ONE, AND ROLLED THEM ALONG THE TABLE.
- 27.THE WHITE FLAG
Community reviews
Sign in to write a review.
No reviews yet.