Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
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About This Book
This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories: The Ways of Ghosts, including "An Arrest," in which a murderer is escorted back to jail by the prison guard he murdered to escape; Soldier Folk including "A Man with Two Lives," in which a man dead and buried returns to claim his belongings, Some Haunted Houses, including "The Other Lodgers," in which a man checks into what he believes is a hotel only to discover it is an abandoned hospital, and Mysterious Disappearances, including "The Difficulty of Crossing a Fi...
Chapters (67)
- PRESENT AT A HANGING AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
- CONTENTS
- THE WAYS OF GHOSTS
- PRESENT AT A HANGING
- A COLD GREETING
- A WIRELESS MESSAGE
- AN ARREST
- SOLDIER-FOLK
- A MAN WITH TWO LIVES
- THREE AND ONE ARE ONE
- A BAFFLED AMBUSCADE
- TWO MILITARY EXECUTIONS
- SOME HAUNTED HOUSES
- THE ISLE OF PINES
- A FRUITLESS ASSIGNMENT
- A VINE ON A HOUSE
- AT OLD MAN ECKERT’S
- THE SPOOK HOUSE
- THE OTHER LODGERS
- THE THING AT NOLAN
- “MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES”
- THE DIFFICULTY OF CROSSING A FIELD
- AN UNFINISHED RACE
- CHARLES ASHMORE’S TRAIL
- SCIENCE TO THE FRONT
- FOOTNOTES
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