Publisher's Synopsis
The Haunters and The Haunted
Ghost Stories and Tales of The Supernatural
GHOST STORIES FROM LITERARY SOURCES
and
GHOST STORIES FROM LOCAL RECORDS, FOLK LORE, AND LEGEND
Edited With an Introduction
By Ernest Rhys
Classic Ghost Stories
In this Ghost Book, M. Larigot, himself a writer of supernatural tales, has collected a remarkable batch of documents, fictive or real, describing the one human experience that is hardest to make good. Perhaps the very difficulty of it has rendered it more tempting to the writers who have dealt with the subject. His collection, notably varied and artfully chosen as it is, yet by no means exhausts the literature, which fills a place apart with its own recognised classics, magic masters, and dealers in the occult. Their testimony serves to show that the forms by which men and women are haunted are far more diverse and subtle than we knew. So much so, that one begins to wonder at last if every person is not liable to be "possessed." For, lurking under the seeming identity of these visitations, the dramatic differences of their entrances and appearances, night and day, are so marked as to suggest that the experience is, given the fit temperament and occasion, inevitable.
Sample:
1. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
2. THE OLD NURSE'S STORY
3. THE SUPERSTITIOUS MAN'S STORY
4. A STORY OF RAVENNA
5. TEIG O'KANE AND THE CORPSE
6. THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS: OR THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN
7. THE BOTATHEN GHOST
8. THE GHOST OF LORD CLARENCEUX
9. DR DUTHOIT'S VISION
10. THE SEVEN LIGHTS
11. THE SPECTRAL COACH OF BLACKADON
12. DRAKE'S DRUM
13. THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM
14. THE POOL IN THE GRAVEYARD
15. THE LIANHAN SHEE
16. THE HAUNTED COVE
17. WANDERING WILLIE'S TALE
