The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
by Andrew Lang
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About This Book
The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement, the stories are classed in different grades, as they advance from the normal and familiar to the undeniably startling. At the same time an account of the current theories of Apparitions is offered, in language as free from technicalities as possible. According to modern opinion every “ghost” is a “hallucination,” a false perception, the perception of something which is not present.
Chapters (97)(click to expand)
- THE BOOK OF DREAMS AND GHOSTS
- PREFACE TO THE NEW IMPRESSION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- CHAPTER I
- THE DOG FANTI
- MARK TWAIN’S STORY
- THE PIG IN THE DINING-ROOM
- THE MIGNONETTE
- THE LOST CHEQUE
- THE DUCKS’ EGGS
- THE LOST KEY
- THE LOST SECURITIES
- THE ARREARS OF TEIND
- THE TWO CURMAS
- THE ASSYRIAN PRIEST
- THE KNOT IN THE SHUTTER
- CHAPTER II
- QUEEN MARY’S JEWELS
- THE DEATHBED
- DREAM OF MR. PERCEVAL’S MURDER
- THE RATTLESNAKE
- THE RED LAMP
- THE SCAR IN THE MOUSTACHE
- THE CORAL SPRIGS
- THE SATIN SLIPPERS
- THE DEAD SHOPMAN
- NOTE
- CHAPTER III
- STORY OF THE DIPLOMATIST {56a}
- UNDER THE LAMP
- THE COW WITH THE BELL
- THE DEATHBED OF LOUIS XIV.
- CHAPTER IV
- THE OLD FAMILY COACH
- RIDING HOME FROM MESS
- THE BRIGHT SCAR
- THE VISION AND THE PORTRAIT
- THE RESTRAINING HAND
- THE BENEDICTINE’S VOICES
- THE MAN AT THE LIFT
- CHAPTER V
- THE WRAITH OF THE CZARINA
- AN “ASTRAL BODY”
- IN TAVISTOCK PLACE {93}
- THE WYNYARD WRAITH {95b}
- LORD BROUGHAM’S STORY
- THE DYING MOTHER {101}
- THE VISION OF THE BRIDE
- CHAPTER VI
- APPEARANCES OF THE DEAD
- THE DAEMON OF SPRAITON IN DEVON {111} ANNO 1682
- SIR GEORGE VILLIERS’ GHOST.
- CAVALIER VERSION {121}
- WYNDHAM’S LETTER
- LORD LYTTELTON’S GHOST
- CHAPTER VII More Ghosts With A Purpose
- THE SLAYING OF SERGEANT DAVIES
- CONCERNING THE MURDER OF SERGEANT DAVIES
- THE GARDENER’S GHOST
- THE DOG O’ MAUSE
- PETER’S GHOST
- CHAPTER VIII
- TICONDEROGA
- THE BERESFORD GHOST
- HALF-PAST ONE O’CLOCK
- “PUT OUT THE LIGHT!”
- CHAPTER IX
- THE CREAKING STAIR
- THE GROCER’S COUGH
- MY GILLIE’S FATHER’S STORY
- THE DREAM THAT KNOCKED AT THE DOOR
- THE GIRL IN PINK
- THE DOG IN THE HAUNTED ROOM
- THE LADY IN BLACK
- THE DANCING DEVIL
- CHAPTER X Modern Hauntings
- THE WESLEY GHOST
- LORD ST. VINCENT’S GHOST STORY
- CHAPTER XI
- MORE HAUNTED HOUSES
- HAUNTED MRS. CHANG
- THE GREAT AMHERST MYSTERY
- DONALD BAN AND THE BOCAN {239b}
- THE HYMN OF DONALD BAN
- THE DEVIL OF HJALTA-STAD {246}
- THE GHOST AT GARPSDAL
- CHAPTER XII The Story of Glam. The Foul Fords.
- THE STORY OF GLAM
- ‘THE FOUL FORDS’ OR THE LONGFORMACUS FARRIER
- CHAPTER XIII The Marvels at Fródá
- THE MARVELS AT FRÓDÁ {273}
- CHAPTER XIV
- HANDS ALL ROUND
- THE COLD HAND
- THE BLACK DOG AND THE THUMBLESS HAND
- THE GHOST THAT BIT
- Footnotes:
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