{"product_id":"2940014584630","title":"Scottish Ghost Stories","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCASE                                                         PAGE\u003cbr\u003e   I. THE DEATH BOGLE OF THE CROSS ROADS, AND THE\u003cbr\u003e        INEXTINGUISHABLE CANDLE OF THE OLD WHITE HOUSE,\u003cbr\u003e        PITLOCHRY                                               1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II. THE TOP ATTIC IN PRINGLE'S MANSION, EDINBURGH            25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III. THE BOUNDING FIGURE OF \"---- HOUSE,\" NEAR BUCKINGHAM\u003cbr\u003e        TERRACE, EDINBURGH                                     41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV. JANE OF GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH                         55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   V. THE SALLOW-FACED WOMAN OF NO. -- FORREST ROAD,\u003cbr\u003e        EDINBURGH                                              69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI. THE PHANTOM REGIMENT OF KILLIECRANKIE                    91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII. \"PEARLIN' JEAN\" OF ALLANBANK                            105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. THE DRUMMER OF CORTACHY                                 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX. THE ROOM BEYOND. AN ACCOUNT OF THE HAUNTINGS OF\u003cbr\u003e        HENNERSLEY, NEAR AYR                                  135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   X. \"---- HOUSE,\" NEAR BLYTHSWOOD SQUARE, GLASGOW. THE\u003cbr\u003e        HAUNTED BATH                                          159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI. THE CHOKING GHOST OF \"---- HOUSE,\" NEAR SANDYFORD\u003cbr\u003e        PLACE, GLASGOW                                        173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XII. THE GREY PIPER AND THE HEAVY COACH OF DONALDGOWERIE\u003cbr\u003e        HOUSE, PERTH                                          189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII. THE FLOATING HEAD OF THE BENRACHETT INN, NEAR THE\u003cbr\u003e        PERTH ROAD, DUNDEE                                    211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIV. THE HAUNTINGS OF \"---- HOUSE,\" IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD\u003cbr\u003e        OF THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD, ABERDEEN                   225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XV. THE WHITE LADY OF ROWNAM AVENUE, NEAR STIRLING          237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVI. THE GHOST OF THE HINDOO CHILD, OR THE HAUNTINGS OF\u003cbr\u003e        THE WHITE DOVE HOTEL, NEAR ST. SWITHIN'S STREET,\u003cbr\u003e        ABERDEEN                                              251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVII. GLAMIS CASTLE                                           263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                          CASE I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE DEATH BOGLE OF THE CROSS ROADS, AND THE\u003cbr\u003e      INEXTINGUISHABLE CANDLE OF THE OLD WHITE\u003cbr\u003e      HOUSE, PITLOCHRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral years ago, bent on revisiting Perthshire, a locality which had\u003cbr\u003egreat attractions for me as a boy, I answered an advertisement in a\u003cbr\u003epopular ladies' weekly. As far as I can recollect, it was somewhat to\u003cbr\u003ethis effect: \"Comfortable home offered to a gentleman (a bachelor) at\u003cbr\u003emoderate terms in an elderly Highland lady's house at Pitlochry. Must\u003cbr\u003ebe a strict teetotaller and non-smoker. F.M., Box so-and-so.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe naïveté and originality of the advertisement pleased me. The idea\u003cbr\u003eof obtaining as a boarder a young man combining such virtues as\u003cbr\u003eabstinence from alcohol and tobacco amused me vastly. And then a\u003cbr\u003ebachelor, too! Did she mean to make love to him herself? The sly old\u003cbr\u003ething! She took care to insert the epithet \"elderly,\" in order to\u003cbr\u003eavoid suspicion; and there was no doubt about it--she thirsted for\u003cbr\u003ematrimony. Being \"tabooed\" by all the men who had even as much as\u003cbr\u003ecaught a passing glimpse of her, this was her last resource--she would\u003cbr\u003eentrap some unwary stranger, a man with money of course, and inveigle\u003cbr\u003ehim into marrying her. And there rose up before me visions of a tall,\u003cbr\u003eangular, forty-year-old Scottish spinster, with high cheek-bones,\u003cbr\u003evirulent, sandy hair, and brawny arms--the sort of woman that ought\u003cbr\u003enot to have been a woman at all--the sort that sets all my teeth on\u003cbr\u003eedge. Yet it was Pitlochry, heavenly Pitlochry, and there was no one\u003cbr\u003eelse advertising in that town. That I should suit her in every respect\u003cbr\u003ebut the matrimonial, I did not doubt. I can pass muster in any company\u003cbr\u003eas a teetotaller; I abominate tobacco (leastways it abominates me,\u003cbr\u003ewhich amounts to much about the same thing), and I am, or rather I can\u003cbr\u003ebe, tolerably amenable, if my surroundings are not positively\u003cbr\u003einfernal, and there are no County Council children within shooting\u003cbr\u003edistance.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080241266928,"sku":"2940014584630","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014584630","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}