This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories: The Ways of Ghosts, including "An Arrest," in which a murderer is escorted back to jail by the prison guard he murdered to escape; Soldier Folk including "A Man with Two Lives," in which a man dead and buried returns to claim his belongings, Some Haunted Houses, including "The Other Lodgers," in which a man checks into what he believes is a hotel only to discover it is an abandoned hospital, and Mysterious Disappearances, including "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field," in which a man disappears in full view of witnesses while crossing a field.
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Tap into the mind of one of the greatest ghost story writers of all times,
This review is from: Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories (Paperback)
This short collection is guaranteed to make you feel eerie in those cold, dark nights when you stayed home alone to read. But then again how else to savor these stories? Here is a pointer. Get your hands on a copy of this book sometime around mid-day Friday. Blow off your friends for the night and go straight home. Wait until the daylight is just a memory and then sit with this book on your favorite old chair, preferably near a window, and delve into it with only the nightstand light on. Take time reading each page, relish each word, don't pay attention to the creepy scratching on you window, or the squeaking in the other rooms, it's all just in your mind. Whether you'll remember about the serial murders in the book, or the ghostly apparitions- it won't matter. What'll matter is how you experience reading about them...give it a try, be brave...
-by Simon Cleveland
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book is in large print easy to read. i like short stories so this one came up to the bar.
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I really liked this book. The stories are presented by the author as "eye-witness accounts" that he collected from other people - so they are short and to the point with very little embellishment. I think this makes the stories more realistic and creepy, because they seem like the kind of tales you would hear around the campfire. It's a fun style to read...who knows, maybe they ARE true ghost stories?!
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