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Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, Developed

Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, Developed

by Joseph Taylor

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Author
Taylor, Joseph, 1762?-1844
Title
Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed
Credits
Produced by Bryan Ness, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Language
English
LoC Class
BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Subject
Apparitions
Category
Text
eBook-No.
31341
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31341
Release Date
February 21, 2010
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.APPARITIONS; OR, THE MYSTERY OF Ghosts , Hobgoblins , AND HAUNTED HOUSES, DEVELOPED . — APPARITIONS; OR, THE MYSTERY OF Ghosts , Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses , DEVELOPED.
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
  3. 3.AN ESSAY ON GHOSTS AND APPARITIONS.
  4. 4.THE DOMINICAN FRIAR.
  5. 5.THE SUPERSTITIOUS COUPLE.
  6. 6.THE HAUNTED BED-ROOM.
  7. 7.REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF THE POWER OF IMAGINATION.
  8. 8.THE WESTMINSTER SCHOLARS.
  9. 9.THE IDEOT'S FUNERAL.
  10. 10.THE VENTRILOQUIST.
  11. 11.THE FEMALE FANATIC, AND HEAVENLY VISITOR .
  12. 12.THE FEMALE SPRITES.
  13. 13.THE PRUSSIAN DOMINO, OR FATAL EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY .
  14. 14.THE DEAD MAN AND ANATOMICAL PROFESSOR .
  15. 15.THE DRUNKEN BUCKS, AND CHIMNEY-SWEEP .
  16. 16.THE CRIPPLEGATE GHOST.
  17. 17.THE VENTRILOQUIST.
  18. 18.THE SCHOOL-BOY APPARITION.
  19. 19.THE CREDULOUS PEASANTS.
  20. 20.THE NOCTURNAL DISTURBERS.
  21. 21.MARESCHAL SAXE, AND THE HAUNTED CASTLE . — FOOTNOTES:
  22. 22.REMARKABLE RESUSCITATION.
  23. 23.THE CREDULOUS BISHOP.
  24. 24.THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURER.
  25. 25.THE HEROIC MIDSHIPMAN; OR CHURCH-YARD ENCOUNTER .
  26. 26.THE COCK-LANE GHOST.
  27. 27.THE HYPOCHONDRIAC GENTLEMAN AND THE JACK-ASS .
  28. 28.THE CASTLE APPARITION. — FOOTNOTES:
  29. 29.THE TWINS, OR GHOST OF THE FIELD .
  30. 30.THE DOUBLE MISTAKE, OR COLLEGE GHOST .
  31. 31.THE HAUNTED CASTLE.
  32. 32.THE HAMMERSMITH GHOST.
  33. 33.THE FRIGHTENED CARRIER.
  34. 34.THE CLUB-ROOM GHOST.
  35. 35.THE LUNATIC APPARITION.
  36. 36.SUPPOSED SUPERNATURAL APPEARANCE.
  37. 37.THE APPARITION INVESTIGATED.
  38. 38.THE BENIGHTED TRAVELLER, AND HAUNTED ROOM .
  39. 39.THE HAUNTED BEACH, OR Power of Conscience on a Murderer .
  40. 40.THE SUBTERRANEAN TRAVELLER; OR GHOST AND NO GHOST .
  41. 41.THE MILKMAN AND CHURCH-YARD GHOST .
  42. 42.THE FAKENHAM GHOST.
  43. 43.THE UNFORTUNATE PRIEST, AND DEAD BODY .
  44. 44.THE VIGIL OF SAINT MARK, OR FATAL SUPERSTITION .
  45. 45.THE FLOATING WONDER, OR FEMALE SPECTRE .
  46. 46.POOR MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN . — FOOTNOTES:
  47. 47.GILES THE SHEPHERD, AND SPECTRE .
  48. 48.A MAN WITH HIS HEAD ON FIRE, AND COVERED WITH BLOOD .
  49. 49.THE INNOCENT DEVIL, OR AGREEABLE DISAPPOINTMENT .
  50. 50.THE SPECTRE OF THE BROKEN.
  51. 51.SIR HUGH ACKLAND.
  52. 52.AN AGREEABLE EXPLANATION.
  53. 53.THE SOMERSETSHIRE DEMONIAC.
  54. 54.THE MANIAC, OR FATAL EFFECTS OF WANTON MISCHIEF .
  55. 55.EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE DREAM, Without any Corresponding Event .
  56. 56.REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF THE POWER OF VISION.
  57. 57.THE PHILOSOPHER GASSENDI, AND THE HAUNTED BED-ROOM .
  58. 58.THE GHOST ON SHIP-BOARD.
  59. 59.A REMARKABLE STORY OF A GHOST,
  60. 60.THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER. — PART SECOND.
  61. 61.INDEX. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H. — I. — J. — L. — M. — N. — P. — R. — S. — T. — V. — W. — Transcriber's Note:

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