Real Ghost Stories
by W. T. Stead
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About This Book
William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) was an English journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational minister. He attended Silcoates School in Wakefield, but was early apprenticed in a merchant's office at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He soon gravitated into journalism, and in 1871 became editor of the Darlington Northern Echo. In 1880 he went to London to be assistant editor of the Pall Mall Gazette under John Morley. The number of his publications gradually became very large, as he wrote with facility and sensational fervour on all sorts of subjects, from The Truth About Russia (1888), t...
Chapters (15)
- REAL GHOST STORIES
- Collected and Edited By
- WILLIAM T. STEAD
- NEW EDITION Re-arranged and Introduced By ESTELLE W. STEAD
- NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY 1921
- INTRODUCTION.
- A PREFATORY WORD.
- CONTENTS
- REAL GHOST STORIES. PART I. THE GHOST THAT DWELLS IN EACH OF US.
- PART II. THE THOUGHT BODY, OR THE DOUBLE.
- PART III. CLAIRVOYANCE—THE VISION OF THE OUT OF SIGHT.
- PART IV. PREMONITIONS AND SECOND SIGHT.
- PART V. GHOSTS OF THE LIVING ON BUSINESS.
- PART VI. GHOSTS KEEPING PROMISE.
- APPENDIX. SOME HISTORICAL GHOSTS.
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