{"product_id":"2940013846814","title":"THE BEST GHOST STORIES OF ALL TIME (Special Nook Bestseller Edition) Classic Masterpeices of Paranormal, Occult and Ghost Stories","description":"THE BEST GHOST STORIES OF ALL TIME \u003cbr\u003e(Special Nook Bestseller Edition) \u003cbr\u003eClassic Masterpeices of Paranormal, Occult and Ghost Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted and the Haunters\u003cbr\u003eThe Silent Woman\u003cbr\u003eBanshees  \u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Went Too Far\u003cbr\u003eThe Phantom Rickshaw\u003cbr\u003eThe Rival Ghosts\u003cbr\u003eThe Damned\u003cbr\u003eThe Interval \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Many More!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In those days,\" she began, feeling from the quality of our silence that we were with her, \"in those days I was interested in psychic things, and had arranged to sit up alone in a haunted house in the middle of London. It was a cheap and dingy lodging-house in a mean street, unfurnished. I had already made a preliminary examination in daylight that afternoon, and the keys from the caretaker, who lived next door, were in my pocket. The story was a good one—satisfied me, at any rate, that it was worth investigating; and I won't weary you with details as to the woman's murder and all the tiresome elaboration as to why the place was alive. Enough that it was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was a good deal bored, therefore, to see a man, whom I took to be the talkative old caretaker, waiting for me on the steps when I went in at 11 p.m., for I had sufficiently explained that I wished to be there alone for the night. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'I wished to show you the room,' he mumbled, and of course I couldn't exactly refuse, having tipped him for the temporary loan of a chair and table.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Come in, then, and let's be quick,' I said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We went in, he shuffling after me through the unlighted hall up to the first floor where the murder had taken place, and I prepared myself to hear his inevitable account before turning him out with the half-crown his persistence had earned. After lighting the gas I sat down in the arm-chair he had provided—a faded, brown plush arm-chair—and turned for the first time to face him and get through with the performance as quickly as possible. And it was in that instant I got my first shock. The man was not the caretaker. It was not the old fool, Carey, I had interviewed earlier in the day and made my plans with. My heart gave a horrid jump.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Now who are you, pray?' I said. 'You're not Carey, the man I arranged with this afternoon. Who are you?'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I felt uncomfortable, as you may imagine. I was a 'psychical researcher,' and a young woman of new tendencies, and proud of my liberty, but I did not care to find myself in an empty house with a stranger. Something of my confidence left me. Confidence with women, you know, is all humbug after a certain point. Or perhaps you don't know, for most of you are men. But anyhow my pluck ebbed in a quick rush, and I felt afraid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Who are you?' I repeated quickly and nervously. The fellow was well dressed, youngish and good-looking, but with a face of great sadness. I myself was barely thirty. I am giving you essentials, or I would not mention it. Out of quite ordinary things comes this story. I think that's why it has value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'No,' he said; 'I'm the man who was frightened to death.'","brand":"Masters of Horror and Paranormal Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079735132400,"sku":"2940013846814","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013846814_p0.jpg?v=1763595490","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013846814","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}