{"product_id":"2940015878400","title":"GREAT GHOST STORIES","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    FOREWORD.                         James H. Hyslop                  v\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN.          Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton        1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF.        A. T. Quiller-Couch             38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE OPEN DOOR.                    Mrs. Margaret Oliphant          62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE DESERTED HOUSE.               Ernest Theodor Amadeus\u003cbr\u003e                                      Hoffmann                       115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE MYSTERIOUS SKETCH.            Erckmann-Chatrian              143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    GREEN BRANCHES.                   Fiona Macleod                  166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS.         Amelia B. Edwards              187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE WERE-WOLF.                    H. B. Marryatt                 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE WITHERED ARM.                 Thomas Hardy                   246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CLARIMONDE.                       Théophile Gautier              281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER          Montague Rhodes James          324\u003cbr\u003e    CATHEDRAL.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    WHAT WAS IT?                      Fitz-James O'Brien             346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGREAT GHOST STORIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLORD EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me\u003cbr\u003eone day, as if between jest and earnest: \"Fancy! since we last met, I\u003cbr\u003ehave discovered a haunted house in the midst of London.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Really haunted?--and by what--ghosts?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, I can't answer that question; all I know is this: six weeks ago\u003cbr\u003emy wife and I were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet\u003cbr\u003estreet, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, 'Apartments,\u003cbr\u003eFurnished.' The situation suited us: we entered the house--liked the\u003cbr\u003erooms--engaged them by the week--and left them the third day. No power\u003cbr\u003eon earth could have reconciled my wife to stay longer; and I don't\u003cbr\u003ewonder at it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What did you see?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It was not so much what we saw or heard that drove us away, as it was\u003cbr\u003ean undefinable terror which seized both of us whenever we passed by the\u003cbr\u003edoor of a certain unfurnished room, in which we neither saw nor heard\u003cbr\u003eanything. Accordingly, on the fourth morning I summoned the woman who\u003cbr\u003ekept the house and attended on us, and told her that the rooms did not\u003cbr\u003equite suit us, and we would not stay out our week. She said, dryly: 'I\u003cbr\u003eknow why; you have stayed longer than any other lodger. Few ever stayed\u003cbr\u003ea second night; none before you a third. But I take it they have been\u003cbr\u003every kind to you.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'They--who?' I asked, affecting to smile.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074430451952,"sku":"2940015878400","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015878400","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}