{"product_id":"2940014607674","title":"FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STORIES","description":"The Imperishable Ghost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGhosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the\u003cbr\u003etime. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before. They are\u003cbr\u003efar more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more\u003cbr\u003einterested in them. There are persons that claim to be acquainted with\u003cbr\u003especific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with\u003cbr\u003ethem, and even some who insist that they are private secretaries to the\u003cbr\u003edead. Others of us mortals, more reserved, are content to keep such\u003cbr\u003edistance as we may from even the shadow of a shade. But there's no\u003cbr\u003egetting away from ghosts nowadays, for even if you shut your eyes to\u003cbr\u003ethem in actual life, you stumble over them in the books you read, you\u003cbr\u003esee them on the stage and on the screen, and you hear them on the\u003cbr\u003electure platform. Even a Lodge in any vast wilderness would have the\u003cbr\u003ecompany of spirits. Man's love for the supernatural, which is one of the\u003cbr\u003emost natural things about him, was never more marked than at present.\u003cbr\u003eYou may go a-ghosting in any company to-day, and all aspects of\u003cbr\u003eliterature, novels, short stories, poetry, and drama alike, reflect the\u003cbr\u003eshadeless spirit. The latest census of the haunting world shows a vast\u003cbr\u003eincrease in population, which might be explained on various grounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife is so inconveniently complex nowadays, what with income taxes and\u003cbr\u003eother visitations of government, that it is hard for us to have the\u003cbr\u003eadded risk of wraiths, but there's no escaping. Many persons of to-day\u003cbr\u003eare in the same mental state as one Mr. Boggs, told of in a magazine\u003cbr\u003estory, a rural gentleman who was agitated over spectral visitants. He\u003cbr\u003ehad once talked at a séance with a speaker who claimed to be the spirit\u003cbr\u003eof his brother, Wesley Boggs, but who conversed only on blue suspenders,\u003cbr\u003ea subject not of vital interest to Wesley in the flesh. \"Still,\" Mr.\u003cbr\u003eBoggs reflected, \"I'm not so darn sure!\" In answer to a suggestion\u003cbr\u003eregarding subliminal consciousness and dual personality as explanation\u003cbr\u003eof the strange things that come bolting into life, he said, \"It's crawly\u003cbr\u003eany way you look at it. Ghosts inside you are as bad as ghosts outside\u003cbr\u003eyou.\" There are others to-day who are \"not so darn sure!\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070718492912,"sku":"2940014607674","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014607674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}