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FOREWORD. James H. Hyslop v
THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN. Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1
THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF. A. T. Quiller-Couch 38
THE OPEN DOOR. Mrs. Margaret Oliphant 62
THE DESERTED HOUSE. Ernest Theodor Amadeus
Hoffmann 115
THE MYSTERIOUS SKETCH. Erckmann-Chatrian 143
GREEN BRANCHES. Fiona Macleod 166
THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS. Amelia B. Edwards 187
THE WERE-WOLF. H. B. Marryatt 221
THE WITHERED ARM. Thomas Hardy 246
CLARIMONDE. Théophile Gautier 281
THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER Montague Rhodes James 324
CATHEDRAL.
WHAT WAS IT? Fitz-James O'Brien 346
GREAT GHOST STORIES
THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN
LORD EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me
one day, as if between jest and earnest: "Fancy! since we last met, I
have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London."
"Really haunted?--and by what--ghosts?"
"Well, I can't answer that question; all I know is this: six weeks ago
my wife and I were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet
street, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, 'Apartments,
Furnished.' The situation suited us: we entered the house--liked the
rooms--engaged them by the week--and left them the third day. No power
on earth could have reconciled my wife to stay longer; and I don't
wonder at it."
"What did you see?"
"It was not so much what we saw or heard that drove us away, as it was
an undefinable terror which seized both of us whenever we passed by the
door of a certain unfurnished room, in which we neither saw nor heard
anything. Accordingly, on the fourth morning I summoned the woman who
kept the house and attended on us, and told her that the rooms did not
quite suit us, and we would not stay out our week. She said, dryly: 'I
know why; you have stayed longer than any other lodger. Few ever stayed
a second night; none before you a third. But I take it they have been
very kind to you.'
"'They--who?' I asked, affecting to smile.
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FOREWORD. James H. Hyslop v
THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN. Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1
THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF. A. T. Quiller-Couch 38
THE OPEN DOOR. Mrs. Margaret Oliphant 62
THE DESERTED HOUSE. Ernest Theodor Amadeus
Hoffmann 115
THE MYSTERIOUS SKETCH. Erckmann-Chatrian 143
GREEN BRANCHES. Fiona Macleod 166
THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS. Amelia B. Edwards 187
THE WERE-WOLF. H. B. Marryatt 221
THE WITHERED ARM. Thomas Hardy 246
CLARIMONDE. Théophile Gautier 281
THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER Montague Rhodes James 324
CATHEDRAL.
WHAT WAS IT? Fitz-James O'Brien 346
GREAT GHOST STORIES
THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN
LORD EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me
one day, as if between jest and earnest: "Fancy! since we last met, I
have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London."
"Really haunted?--and by what--ghosts?"
"Well, I can't answer that question; all I know is this: six weeks ago
my wife and I were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet
street, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, 'Apartments,
Furnished.' The situation suited us: we entered the house--liked the
rooms--engaged them by the week--and left them the third day. No power
on earth could have reconciled my wife to stay longer; and I don't
wonder at it."
"What did you see?"
"It was not so much what we saw or heard that drove us away, as it was
an undefinable terror which seized both of us whenever we passed by the
door of a certain unfurnished room, in which we neither saw nor heard
anything. Accordingly, on the fourth morning I summoned the woman who
kept the house and attended on us, and told her that the rooms did not
quite suit us, and we would not stay out our week. She said, dryly: 'I
know why; you have stayed longer than any other lodger. Few ever stayed
a second night; none before you a third. But I take it they have been
very kind to you.'
"'They--who?' I asked, affecting to smile.