Famous Modern Ghost Stories - Various
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Ghosts have always haunted the pages of literature and the more man knows about the natural world the more he seems to crave stories about the supernatural. Ghosts sweep, flutter haunt and scare. They come in all shapes sizes and temperaments. This collection contains the following stories. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, The Shadows on the Wall by Mary Freeman, The Messenger by Robert Chambers, Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev, The Beast with the Five fingers by W F Harvey, The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France, What Was It? By Fits-James O'Brien, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambroise…mehr

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Ghosts have always haunted the pages of literature and the more man knows about the natural world the more he seems to crave stories about the supernatural. Ghosts sweep, flutter haunt and scare. They come in all shapes sizes and temperaments. This collection contains the following stories. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, The Shadows on the Wall by Mary Freeman, The Messenger by Robert Chambers, Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev, The Beast with the Five fingers by W F Harvey, The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France, What Was It? By Fits-James O'Brien, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambroise Bierce, The Shell of Sense by Olivia Dunbar, The Woman at Seven Brothers by Wilbur Steele, At the Gate by Myla Closser, Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe, The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne, The Bowmen by Arthur Machen, and A Ghost by Buy De Maupassant.
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JOSEPH ADDISON How shall I bring to your mind the time and distance that separate us from the Age of Fable? Think of what seemed to you the longest week of your life. Think of fifty-two of these in a year; then think of two thousand five hundred years and try to realize that Aesop-sometimes called the Eighth Wise Man-lived twenty-five centuries ago and made these wonderful tales that delight us to-day. Shakespeare is even yet something of a mystery, although he was born in our own era, less than five hundred years ago; but men are still trying to discover any new facts of his life that might better explain his genius. A greater mystery is grand old Homer, who has puzzled the world for centuries. Scholars are not certain whether the "Iliad" or "Odyssey" are the work of one or more than one mind. Who can say? for the thrilling tales were told-probably after the fashion of all the minstrels of his day-more than eight hundred years before Christ. On the background of that dim distant long ago, perhaps two hundred years later than Homer, looms the magnificent figure of another mysterious being-Aesop the Greek slave. Wherever and whenever he lived, and whether, in fact, he ever lived at all, he seems very real to us, even though more than two thousand years have passed. Among all the stories that scholars and historians have told of him-sifting through the centuries the true from the false-we get a vivid picture of the man. He was born in Greece, probably in Phrygia, about 620 years before Christ. He had more than one master and it was the last, Iadmon, who gave him his liberty because of his talents and his wisdom. The historian Plutarch recounts his presence at the court of Croesus, King of Lydia, and his meeting Thales and Solon there, telling us also that he reproved the wise Solon for discourtesy toward the king. Aesop visited Athens and composed the famous fable of Jupiter and the Frogs for the instruction of the citizens. Whether he left any written fables is very uncertain, but those known by his name were popular in Athens when that city was celebrated throughout the world for its wit and its learning. Both Socrates and Plato delighted in them; Socrates, we read, having amused himself during the last days of his life with turning into verse some of Aesop's "myths" as he called them.