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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 39 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4654 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 82 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Mr. 22 Mrs. 16 Miss 13 ghost 11 time 11 Lord 9 man 8 house 8 Lady 8 God 7 night 7 St. 7 Sir 7 London 6 room 6 hear 6 Dr. 5 spirit 5 look 4 story 4 like 4 death 4 day 4 John 4 George 4 England 3 think 3 irish 3 illustration 3 hand 3 door 3 case 3 William 3 Jack 3 Ireland 3 House 3 Home 3 Bob 2 tell 2 old 2 little 2 great 2 good 2 dead 2 bed 2 York 2 Wesley 2 Twas 2 Scott 2 Queen Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1236 most 79 least 49 well 3 hard 2 worst 2 all 1 strangest 1 pleasantest 1 meagerest 1 highest 1 eldest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 archive.org 2 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.archive.org 1 www.pgdpcanada.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.pgdpcanada.net 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/5/2/14522/14522-h/14522-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/5/2/14522/14522-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/tomossingtonsgho00marsrich 1 http://www.archive.org/details/banshee_00odon 1 http://archive.org/details/trueghoststories00carr 1 http://archive.org/details/ghostworld00dyer 1 http://archive.org/details/americana Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 2 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk 1 jabbechard@aol.com Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 _ was _ 22 _ is _ 21 _ did _ 13 _ have _ 10 _ are _ 10 _ seen _ 10 door was open 9 _ do n''t 9 _ saw _ 9 _ see _ 9 room was empty 8 _ do _ 8 _ had _ 8 one was there 8 room was full 8 things went on 7 _ were _ 7 days gone by 6 _ does _ 6 _ does n''t 6 eyes were wide 6 nothing was visible 5 _ think _ 5 case was not 5 days went by 5 ghosts do not 5 house was not 5 man is not 5 one does not 5 thing is certain 5 time went on 4 _ coming down 4 ghosts are not 4 house was perfectly 4 house was then 4 house was very 4 man was so 4 room was not 4 room was so 4 story is well 4 thing went on 3 _ am _ 3 _ felt _ 3 _ hear _ 3 _ heard _ 3 _ knew _ 3 _ know _ 3 _ make _ 3 _ was not 3 bed made up Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ are not nearly 1 _ did not _ 1 _ do not so 1 _ is not here 1 _ is not right 1 _ was not _ 1 _ was not human 1 _ was not present 1 beds are not commonly 1 case have no more 1 case is not evidential 1 case is not singular 1 case was not definitely 1 case was not suitable 1 day are not less 1 day was no better 1 day was not mortal 1 death does not finally 1 deaths is not likely 1 eyes are no longer 1 friend is no longer 1 friend made no attempt 1 friends had not altogether 1 friends were not mere 1 ghost gave no further 1 ghost gave no more 1 ghost had no desire 1 ghost is not so 1 ghost is not yet 1 ghost was not only 1 ghost was not safe 1 ghosts are no respecters 1 ghosts are not _ 1 ghosts are not even 1 ghosts do not always 1 ghosts had no purpose 1 ghosts have no power 1 ghosts were not always 1 house has no history 1 house has not even 1 house is no longer 1 house was no longer 1 house was not even 1 house was not large 1 houses are not equally 1 houses were not below 1 life were no longer 1 life were not likely 1 life were not sufficient 1 man did no such A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 34171 author = Bangs, John Kendrick title = Toppleton''s Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile date = keywords = Alice; Arabella; Barncastle; Burningford; CHAPTER; Chatford; Duchess; Edward; Hicks; Hopkins; Hoppy; Lady; London; Lord; Mr.; Sallie; Toppleton; know; spirit summary = To the agent''s credit be it said that when Hopkins Toppleton came along "But I heard you laugh," said Toppleton, eyeing the agent, his anger now "You are a bright spirit," said Hopkins with a forced laugh. "I wish," said Toppleton, experiencing a slight return of his awed "Never mind," said Hopkins, the colour returning to his cheeks, "I feel "I should like to have been on hand to hear you," said Hopkins with a "I should think it likely," said Toppleton. "Well," Toppleton said, "I''ll find out all about it and let you know, My daughter, Lady Alice Chatford, Mr. Toppleton," said Barncastle. "My friend Toppleton, my dear," said Barncastle, "has paid me the "Ah, Toppleton!" said Barncastle, "let us not waste words. "Well, of course," said Toppleton, "you know more about it than I do, "There are two reasons, Toppleton," said Barncastle, fixing his eye with id = 41739 author = Barnett, C. Z. (Charles Zachary) title = A Christmas Carol; Or, The Miser''s Warning! (Adapted from Charles Dickens'' Celebrated Work.) date = keywords = BOB; Christmas; FRANK; MRS; SCR; SPIRIT summary = am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, And a happy Christmas, and a merry new year to you, Bob Cratchit. A merry Christmas and a happy new year, sir. yonder poor child was left alone, he _did_ come just like that! pleasant happy Christmas Day we shall spend. Tiny Tim shall not go without his Christmas dinner notwithstanding quite light, and the GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT discovered, as in _The SECOND SPIRIT and SCROOGE enter._ SPIRIT advances--draws SCROOGE back from the group--a bright glow lights up the Scene, as the SPIRIT and SCROOGE sink through the Stage unnoticed SCROOGE and the SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT BOB CRATCHIT enters with TINY TIM upon his Not coming upon Christmas Day! A merry Christmas and a happy new year! A merry Christmas and a happy new year! The SPIRIT enters, followed by SCROOGE._) The SPIRIT enters, followed by SCROOGE._) id = 9312 author = Barr, Robert title = From Whose Bourne date = keywords = Brenton; Chicago; Ferris; Mr.; Mrs.; Roland; Stratton; speed summary = "My dear," said William Brenton to his wife, "do you think I shall be "Come, come," said the man who stood beside Brenton, "haven''t you had "Taking it all in all," said Brenton, "do you think the spirit-land is "Yes," said Speed; "I think if ever a man was in misery, he is. "But, my dear sir," said Brenton, "look at the appalling condition of "I have been in a good deal of trouble," Brenton said to Speed, "and "There!" said Speed to Brenton, triumphantly, "what do you think of "Yes, I know he has," said Brenton, dubiously; "but he is a newspaper "The scoundrel!" said Brenton to Speed, as Stratton made this remark. "Now," said John Speed to William Brenton, "we have got Stratton fairly "Certainly," said Brenton; "I shall be glad to answer anything as long "Yes," said Brenton; "but the case comes on in a few days. id = 13319 author = Belasco, David title = The Return of Peter Grimm date = keywords = BATHOLOMMEY; Belasco; CATHERINE; FREDERIK; Grimm; JAMES; MACPHERSON; MRS; Mr.; PETER; REV; WILLIAM summary = The scene of the play is laid in the living room of Peter Grimm''s home at [_Thinking--ignoring_ FREDERIK.] He''s a great old man--your uncle. time._ JAMES _posts the letters in a mail-box outside the door._ PETER PETER _calls "Come in,"_ WILLIAM, _a delicate child of eight, stands [_Looking after_ JAMES.] Uncle Peter, when I came in this [_Seeing_ WILLIAM.] Circus day comes but once a year, little _There is a pause._ PETER _stops short, looking at_ WILLIAM. speaking so as not to be heard by_ CATHERINE.] Frederik, I want to think [_Coming back to_ PETER _and looking at him transfixed._] Uncle CATHERINE _comes from_ WILLIAM''S _room, simply dressed in white--no touch [MARTA _re-enters from_ WILLIAM''S _room and closing the door comes down JAMES _looks at_ CATHERINE, _then at_ FREDERIK. makes you think Peter Grimm is in this room? I believe Uncle Peter Grimm was in this room id = 28699 author = Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) title = Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters date = keywords = Dee; Dr.; England; God; Grandier; Home; Knight; London; Lord; Lurancy; Mary; Mignon; Mompesson; Mr.; Mrs.; Roff; Swedenborg; Wesley; William; ghost summary = given every evidence of being possessed by evil spirits. two modest little girls in the bed, between seven and eight years old, fraudulent mediums so frequently offer to-day--"An evil spirit took Another night and more knockings, followed by "a noise in the room over "For some time past a great knocking having been heard in the night, at At the time he saw the ghost he was still a young man, thinking far less Why may not the spirit of the living person have left his body Is the "spirit" present in both places at the same time--in times, she said, there had appeared to her at dead of night a female lifted Home himself from the floor; spirit hands were seen and felt; an occasional returns of Mary''s spirit in the years immediately following Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits"--is one of the great id = 6027 author = Burnett, Frances Hodgson title = In the Closed Room date = keywords = Foster; Jane; Jem; Judith summary = knew that Judith held the thing in horror, but it was a truth Mother said she wasn''t like any other kind of girl, and "She''s a queer little fish, Judy," Jane said to her husband as hat and feathers her little face seemed like a white flower. "Come and play with me," she said--though Judith heard no voice "There''s a picture in there of a little girl I know," Judith "It was a little girl''s room," Judith said. "It looks almost as if it had died too," said Judith. Closed Room became as far away as all other places and things had "They''re flowers," said Judith, her eyes still more puzzled. "I''m going up to play with the little girl, mother," she said. "If they would look like that," the little girl said, "she would They went into the Closed Room and Judith lay down. id = 44625 author = Carrington, Hereward title = True Ghost Stories date = keywords = Claughton; Dr.; George; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; St.; bed; case; death; ghost; hand; house; room; time summary = "cases," spending nights in "haunted houses," and accounts of his "Looking up, I saw, standing by the side of my bed, a young man, The following case is reported in Podmore''s _Apparitions and Thought But how about those ghosts which appear some time after death? photograph ghosts seen in haunted-houses; but, though the figures those cases in which the apparition of a living person has been seen, haunted houses; the theory which says that the figures seen are real, several persons saw the figure at the same time, or "collectively." door open, turned out the light and was soon sound asleep. lived in a house whose ruins still stand close by where I saw the face In the following case the ghost kept its promise to appear--doing After this Mrs. Claughton saw a man standing on Mrs. B.''s left hand--tall, dark, well bed curtain a figure cross the room to the table on which the light was id = 37857 author = Castlemon, Harry title = The Haunted Mine date = keywords = Banta; Bob; Casper; Claus; Denver; Fay; Haberstro; Jack; Julian; Louis; Mr.; St.; Wiggins summary = "I don''t care," said Julian, settling the box under his arm and going "That is no way for you to save money, Julian," said Jack. "What do you want to know for?" said Julian, remembering what Jack had "I tell you, that boy is coming to some bad end," said Jack. "I''ve got the box," said Julian, when Casper asked him what he meant "I tell you, Jack, that fortune in the box is ours," said Julian. "I will tell you one thing, Jack," said Julian. "By George, Jack," said Julian, when he went home that night, "did I "We don''t want a sleeping-car," said Jack, catching Julian by the arm "And to think that that fellow watched us all the while we were in St. Louis," said Jack, leaning over and whispering the words to Julian. "Come on, boys," said Mr. Banta, turning to Julian and Jack, who id = 17190 author = Collison-Morley, Lacy title = Greek and Roman Ghost Stories date = keywords = Achilles; Footnote; Greek; Pliny; Rome; day; dead; death; ghost; man; spirit; story summary = Cicero[1] tells us that it was generally believed that the dead lived on lived there night and day for a long time. soon as he heard the story he took the house. dead fought for three days and three nights, and the clash of their arms how, even in his day, "the priests that raise the dead from Avernus live Finally the dead man sat up and asked why he had been brought back believed that the dead could return at night to those whom they loved is horror; and then at night her dead husband appears to her and describes Before leaving these stories of visions of the dead, we must not omit to the ghost of the dead, and that he has already appeared as stone and "Later he is met by the ghost of the dead man, man who rose from the dead twenty days after he was buried, and that he id = 39485 author = Crowe, Catherine title = Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas date = keywords = Alfred; Annie; Captain; Coullie; Donald; Givry; Healy; Ihan; Madame; Mr.; Mrs.; Mungo; Rob; Robertson; Shiels summary = "''Come in,'' I said, without turning my head, for I thought it was the "''I know he''s come back,'' said one, ''for I saw him standing at his own "Presently, the landlord re-entered the room, saying, that Mrs. Robertson answered that her husband had not returned from Raasa, and "''But people saw him last night, standing at his own door,'' answered the "''I suppose he has a great many places to stop at,'' said my mother; ''if husband having been called away on business; and, said the young woman, went some time since to pay a visit at an old place belonging to our "''I have seen that dog two or three times,'' said I. He said, he did not believe in ghosts; though he had heard "Well, I thought he came in with me," said Donald; and going to the door "I saw a man in the passage," said Annie, looking very pale and id = 36512 author = Cruikshank, George title = Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" date = keywords = Dr.; Home; Mr.; Mrs.; Veal; ghost; hand; like; question; spirit; table; time summary = details as to the _person_ and _dress_ of a Ghost; and in a work which short story about the ghost of a lady appearing to her friend. appears that this was reported to be the ghost of a poor gentleman of to the light of day some more facts about ghosts from the _dark_ side night there appeared to him in his bed-room the ghost of a stout old for a "play bill!"), in which the ghost or evil spirit of a drummer, or SPIRITS OF CLOTHES, why, then, it appears that GHOSTS NEVER DID APPEAR, question on the table, for the spirits to rap out an answer--viz., as table, and there the spirit sat, but, like ''Banquo''s'' Ghost, _invisible these supposed spirits, their mediums, and their friends should _place_ satisfied unless they could see these spirited ghosts "knock each brain he had the _appearance_ of a person or ghost constantly by his id = 40729 author = Dickens, Charles title = "Old Scrooge": A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens'' Celebrated Christmas Story. date = keywords = Bob; Christmas; Fred; Mr.; Mrs.; Scro; Scrooge summary = Mrs. Belle Kemper, Scrooge''s first and last love _Scro._ But you were always a good man of business Jacob. (_The Spirit of Christmas Past rises from the hearth as Scrooge finishes _Scro._ Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me? _Scro._ [_uneasily_] Yes. _Spir._ Let us see another Christmas. (_Children place chairs around the table; Bob puts Tiny Tim in a high _Scro._ Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live? after year, and saying, Uncle Scrooge, I wish you A Merry Christmas and _Fred._ A Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to the old man. _Scro._ Can this be the Spirit of Christmas Future that I see _Scro._ Ah, here are more of my old business friends; the Spirit directs _Mrs. K._ Well, you must know, my dear children, that Fanny Scrooge--our _Scro._ It''s I, your Uncle Scrooge. _Scro._ Do with me as you please; it is Christmas Day. id = 46647 author = Dickinson, Sidney title = True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural date = keywords = Australia; Candler; Melbourne; Miss; Mrs.; New; Rounsfell; day; door; fact; find; flower; house; look; room; time; wife summary = for the time the thought of letter-writing, and three days later I During my year abroad, my wife was living, as I have said, in Boston, the new wife, and the step-mother, as the years passed and she had no On the afternoon of the second day of my wife''s visit, the child hand and followed by his silent and sad-faced wife, both passengers and young man who was a long-time friend of her family, and when he called on the other, my wife''s bedroom, the bathroom, our friend''s room, a My wife went at once to her room to lay "You should not bring me these things," my wife said to him one day. "Before we sit down," said my wife, turning smilingly to our friend, house I looked anxiously for the figure of my wife standing on the our friend and I went into the dining-room, while my wife retired to id = 15258 author = Falconer, Lanoe title = Cecilia de Noël date = keywords = Atherley; Aunt; Austyn; Canon; Cecilia; George; God; Lady; Lyndsay; Mallet; Molyneux; Mr.; Mrs.; Noël; Sir summary = "Because Mrs. Mallet has seen the ghost!" repeated Atherley. "Mrs. Mallet is a sensible woman," said Atherley heartily; "Ann, the "No, George; it is not likely that I should allow a person in Mrs. Mallet''s position to speak disrespectfully to me about Cecilia. "I should not wish such a thing to happen for a moment," said Mrs. Mallet, as if this had been no figure of speech but the actual "I can see Mrs. Mallet is a horrible old croaker," said Lady Atherley. "Denis, I have often told you not to ask questions," said Lady Atherley. "I think you will admit, George," said Lady Atherley, as we left the "George," said Lady Atherley, coming into the room at this instant; "But, my dear Cecilia," said Lady Atherley, looking up from the work "Do not believe him, Cecilia," said Lady Atherley: "he thinks there is "By the way," said Atherley that night after dinner, when Mrs. Molyneux id = 38060 author = Gillmore, Inez Haynes title = Out of the Air date = keywords = Ayer; Byan; Carbonado; Glorious; Lindsay; Lutetia; Lutie; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Murray; New; O''Hearn; Spash; Spink; Susannah; Warner; York summary = business--" Mr. Warner''s voice always swelled a little when he said "our stock!" said Susannah to Mr. Warner one day. "It seems quite shocking to you, of course, and--Wait a moment--" Mr. Warner rose and walked toward the door leading to Byan''s office. little business talk, before she''s had time to think and work up another Glorious Lutie; for the little room saw her only at morning and night. "I''ve bought this house, Mrs. Spash," Lindsay confided. "Did Miss Murray die in her room?" Lindsay asked. Lindsay stood looking for a long time into it. bedrooms," Lindsay went on, "the first time I came into the house. "Well, it''s time I went to work," Lindsay remarked a little listlessly. "Very likely you''re right, Mrs. Spash," Lindsay agreed. "Oh, I feel so much better now," Susannah said after a little talk; more "And little Lutetia Murray Lindsay will grow up in almost the same id = 13934 author = Harris, J. W. (John William) title = Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men date = keywords = B----; Footnote; Freer; Haunting; House; Miss; Mr.; Mrs. summary = The symptom probably appears in hypnotic cases from the Probably Miss Freer, subject to thought interesting than the transfer of thought by Miss Freer to a friend, who in the glen, Miss Freer almost always heard strange sounds at night. Miss Freer not only heard sounds in the house, where she was less known to Miss Freer and her friends until several visions of nuns had the haunters, may have been a thought transferred by a hypnotist to Miss Thought transfer--audible to the person affected alone, In a haunted house case, a story suggested The connection with hypnotism is seen in the next case. year before Miss Freer garrisoned the house. the transferred sound of the breathing of one of two people hypnotising hypnotists on one person, it may be noted that the sound like the giving The fact that the dog that appeared to Miss Freer was a spaniel like id = 61158 author = Hartzell, H. A. title = Death and Taxes date = keywords = Captain; Heather; Higgins; Jerry summary = "It''s a crime, Your Honor," said the young man with the dreamy eyes and "Poor Captain Wully," he said "All right, joker," said Jerry. "About that Scotch," said Jerry. Captain Wully scaring a couple of lovers with noises the young lady Captain Wully was seated on an old sea-chest, the bagpipes still tucked "Look," said Jerry. "_Gertrude!_" yelled Captain Wully. "Why," she said, "it looks like _me_--a little. And that was how Heather Higgins reluctantly happened to promise Jerry "_Rye!_" said Jerry. When Captain Wully realized Heather Higgins had taken the plaid skirt "That''s Red Skeleton," said Captain Wully. "_That_ even _I_ don''t believe," said Jerry. Jerry looked inquiringly at Heather. So she and Jerry excused themselves and left Captain Wully to Jerry said, "_Been?_" Jerry said, "_Been?_" well," said Jerry, and stared at Wesley Tatom''s tie. "I don''t think women like to be taken for granted," Jerry said. "Heather," said Jerry, "will you marry me?" id = 16975 author = Hubbell, Walter title = The Haunted House: A True Ghost Story Being an account of the mysterious manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox, the young girl who is possessed of devils, and has become known throughout the entire dominion as the great Amherst mystery date = keywords = Bob; Cox; Dan; Esther; Jane; John; Olive summary = Olive, Jane, and Esther, and is a shoemaker by trade, and one of Dan''s Esther, after sleeping for about an hour, comes into the dining room "Come right up to bed you silly girl," said Jane, "and don''t be talking about rats at this time of night." So Jane took the lamp and Esther After closing the door of their room, "Esther," said Jane, "you are none of the family remained in the house but Olive and Esther, who hour, she went into Dan''s cottage with Esther and Jane, who both ran out between my feet; then Jane and I went to our room, shut the door, said "So do I," replied Dan. And up he went to bed, Jane returning to the Dan, Olive, Esther and Jane, William Cox and John Teed having left the Esther was seated in the dining room when Olive first saw the id = 12621 author = Lang, Andrew title = The Book of Dreams and Ghosts date = keywords = Claughton; December; Donald; Dr.; Duke; George; Glam; Grettir; House; John; Lady; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Ricketts; Shchapoff; Sir; St.; Thorhall; Towse; Wesley; William; dream; ghost; story summary = wakened me, and said she had dreamed Fanti went mad, and turned into a told the story having left the hall in the interval, she went into the At night Mrs. Herbert dreamed that they went into the garden, down a said father appeared to him in a dream, and made known to him where for a person in a dream to see a dead man, as it comes that he sees a "On Friday night (Jan. 21) I dreamed that my daughter''s time came; dead man was dreaming about the living person to whom, or about the pretty man," Sergeant Davies said good-bye to his wife, who never saw my bed, I heard a voice but saw nothing; the voice said, "Come away". went to his parents'' room, saw his father asleep in bed and his mother The story of the lady who often dreamed of a house, and when by chance id = 12674 author = Lang, Andrew title = Cock Lane and Common-Sense date = keywords = Carpenter; Cock; Dr.; England; Gasparin; Glanvill; Hibbert; Home; Iamblichus; Joseph; Kirk; Lane; London; Lord; Mirabel; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Paris; Porphyry; Psychical; Rev.; Scott; Sir; Society; St.; Wodrow; case; ghost summary = anthropologists will hear gladly about wraiths, ghosts, corpsecandles, hauntings, crystal-gazing, and walking unharmed through witnesses of all sorts, like the ''knockings,'' ''movements,'' ''ghosts,'' Second sight, the fairy world, ghosts, ''wraiths,'' ''astral bodies'' of modern Ojibway ''close place,'' or lodge, like those seen by old spirit is present, he makes a whirring noise, like the Cock Lane Psychical Society can collect some 400 cases of haunted houses in known to him who say they have seen ghosts in haunted houses, were like the old theory of haunted houses, namely, that a ghost, or young lady, in bed, saw a light, then a hallucination which called ''seen ghosts'' in haunted houses, and other odd phenomena, he knows cases, we have the effect, with no visible cause; in ghost stories, The old, savage, natural theory of ghosts and wraiths is that they Modern times have known dream-evidence in cases of murder, as in the id = 36595 author = Lewes, Mary L. title = Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore date = keywords = Cardiganshire; John; Jones; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; St.; Toili; Wales; Welsh; ghost; hear; house; light; man; old; story; time summary = supposed ghost in the house), declared that they had seen a "grey lady" old country house has its ghost, yet the stories and legends connected ghost" story of Mayfield, a very old house in West Wales, dating back to years ago, the man who lived there used to see _curious, little people_, maple-tree, we should come to a house said to possess a ghost story, for A few years ago, a certain Mrs. Hudson went to live near the small town This story reminded me of a very old house near Arundel, in Sussex, said a certain house, the woman living at the lodge saw a pale light come previously never heard--there came to my mind a story told me by an old In the house we have mentioned there lived an old man and woman and home, but as the old man''s end drew near, Brins went over to his house, id = 2433 author = MacDonald, George title = Donal Grant date = keywords = Andrew; Arctura; Arkie; Bible; Brookes; CHAPTER; Carmichael; Christ; Davie; Donal; Eppy; Father; Forgue; God; Graeme; Grant; Jesus; Kennedy; Lord; Miss; Morven; Mr.; Mrs.; Simmons; good; hear; like; little; look; man; tell; think; time; weel summary = "Ye dinna surely think God fillsna a''thing?" exclaimed Donal. "Will you let me look at the passage?" said Donal to the boy, holding "Good morning, sir!" said Donal, and left the room. "For," continued Donal, "the man said he was the son of God, come down "The lesson ''s done, Davie," said Donal, and rose and went, leaving him "I do not believe," said Donal, "that any work of man''s hands, however "A little goes a long way with Davie, my lord," answered Donal. "Davie is not quite a man yet," said Donal; "and by the time he begins "My lord," answered Donal, "the moment a man speaks of love to a woman, "Do you know why things so often come right?" said Donal. "I should like to hear it, my lord," said Donal. "Would you not like, my lady," said Donal, "to come to the schoolroom id = 40453 author = Marsh, Richard title = Tom Ossington''s Ghost date = keywords = Ballingall; Brodie; Clover; Cottage; Ella; God; Graham; Jack; Madge; Martyn; Miss; Mr.; Ossington; Tom; look summary = The woman turned and looked at her; as she did so, Madge was conscious The woman, drawing nearer, clutched Madge''s arm with both her hands. Madge went to Ella''s room, and, turning the handle, entered. Madge moved out of the room, Ella going after her with a rush. "Yes--if he were to come back?" Madge looked out of the Madge, taking the paper from Ella''s hand, went with it closer to the "Madge, if you don''t stop talking like that, I''ll leave the house this Ella, clutching at Madge''s arm, stared over her shoulder with a face "Go," said Ella, as she hastened from the room, "and open the door, Ella--sit down, Madge--Graham, take a chair. "Come, Madge, let''s give the man his tea." Madge led the way, and they went over the house. When the two men had gone, Ella faced Madge with sparkling eyes. id = 36991 author = Mills, Weymer Jay title = The ghosts of their ancestors date = keywords = Georgina; Jonathan; Julie; Juma; Knickerbocker; Miss; Mrs.; Patricia; Snograss; York; illustration summary = The head of the Knickerbocker family turned irately in his chair and A faithful slave to old Miss Johnstone of Crown Street, Juma had been court that had stood there years before the coming of the Knickerbockers of--Patricia''s aunt, Miss Georgina Knickerbocker, had elected to raise her my father, and my brother Jonathan owns Knickerbocker Mansion, the finest That year, in which Richard Sheridan first played the organ in St. Paul''s and Mrs. Snograss elected to reside in York, proved, indeed, an Black "Rushingbeau," the York pronunciation for Mrs. Snograss''s serving-man, Rochambeau, meeting Juma at the morning market in ushered to Miss Georgina Knickerbocker''s bench. enemy being comfortably ensconced, arose and stalked over to Mrs. Rumbell''s seat, followed by her sister and the Mansion girls, so that the Georgina, entering the room, her face stern and white, said, eyeing him, "They are waiting for us in Lady Knickerbocker''s state-room yonder--Sir "Oh, let us cover our eyes," whispered Miss Georgina. id = 30440 author = O''Donnell, Elliott title = Byways of Ghost-Land date = keywords = Count; England; God; Hans; Krantz; Lady; Mrs; O''Donnell; Vercoe; day; death; eye; ghost; hand; hear; house; long; man; night; occult; phantasm; spirit; think; time; tree summary = of these occult brains, and at certain times (and in certain places) I striking certain times; and I have since heard of hauntings by phenomena Trees are, I believe, frequently haunted by spirits that suggest crime. Many tales of trees being haunted in this way have come to me from India dead trees are some of the occult horrors that haunt woods, and, in phantasms, and it is quite possible for a house to be haunted by many a house being subjected to the hauntings of a dog, a sensual-looking who came tearing out of the room, her eyes half out of her head with of Man a similar kind of phantasm, called "the Mauthe dog," was said to work, but for nature, for the dark open air of night-time, for the vast This was repeated three times, when a black figure, like that of a man, id = 34263 author = O''Donnell, Elliott title = The Banshee date = keywords = Banshee; Count; Dempsey; Dublin; Dunloe; Ireland; Lady; Menzies; Miss; Mrs; O''D.; O''Hara; Ralph; Ronan; Sir; family; irish; time summary = the other hand, I do not think the Banshee would ever haunt a family that the time the Banshee appeared to them, and it is said to strictly confine a few days of the Banshee''s visit a member of the family died, but it was times as a very lovely young girl with long, red-gold hair, clad in a heard before Mrs Frances Sheridan''s death was that of the real Banshee; Banshees that is supposed to haunt our family, and which my mother always died, the Banshee was heard wailing round the house of his ancestors. Occasionally, too, the German family ghost, like the Banshee, is heard "The Banshee has come for him, Miss; and ''tis not I alone who have heard Years passed, and nothing more was seen or heard of the Banshee till I was Sometimes the Banshee, who follows old families, is "People have said to me that Banshees are heard, not seen. id = 40823 author = O''Donnell, Elliott title = Ghostly Phenomena date = keywords = Dead; Elementals; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Phantasms; Vagrarian; Vice; case; house; night; room; time summary = dream, in which I had seen a tall figure with a grey, evil face come the place where your house now stands, the tall figure of a man with a Hence I am inclined to think that the house was haunted by peculiar form of phenomenon, too, in my book, "The Haunted Houses of I have frequently seen phantasms of the dead both in haunted houses way connected with the house, or else it was a Vice Elemental attracted house in the same way as other Elementals--commonly known as Family In cases of suicide, too, I think the nature of the Phantasms that an account of a house presumably haunted by a Phantasm of the Dead. house in this village that is haunted by the ghost of a murdered lady, but A haunting of a similar nature occurred quite recently at a house near If spirits can manifest themselves in haunted houses without the id = 44397 author = O''Donnell, Elliott title = Haunted Places in England date = keywords = Beryl; Brown; Casson; Eldred; Fitzsimmons; George; Griffiths; John; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Norfolk; Parminter; Parry; Sir; Stewart; Syderstone; Wilfred; Wotherall summary = "Noises, like women," he said, "want keeping in their places. caught a sudden movement in the room, and I saw what looked like a said they had heard all their lives that the road was haunted, but for the ground floor of the house, for about the hundredth time--when Dr. Sickertorft suddenly remarked: "I wonder if this house is haunted?" The following day Lady Cookham and the children left, and Sir George run up the stairs and arrive outside Sir George''s door in time to hear the children, Bobbie and Jane, said they heard noises, and declared "Yes," she said, "the house is sold, and the new people are coming in sitting-room door open, and the chair placed near one of the windows it in pieces'': that this knock was so violent as to be heard by Mrs. Crafer in the centre of the house:--that she, the said Phoebe Steward, id = 32841 author = Ogilvie, William title = The Laird o'' Coul''s Ghost date = keywords = Coul; thing summary = _An Account of Mr. Maxwell Laird of Coul his Appearance after Death refuse to do a Thing to serve a good Purpose, If I thought I was obliged C. There are a great many Things that I _can_ answer, which the Living are O. Tell me then, Coul, have you never yet appeared before God, nor O. I am loath to believe all that you have said at this Time, Coul; but I are as great Differences between Angels, both good and bad, as there are Both the good and bad Angels have their stated Times of bad Angels, or Spirits of wicked departed, have told mighty Things which O. So much Truth being among the good Angels, I shall be apt to think, this Information; for, I tell you likewise, there is a good Angel that O. After a short Pause I answered; ''tis a good Errand, Coul, that you are id = 42566 author = Parkes, William Theodore title = The Spook Ballads date = keywords = BALLADS; Barney; Bradey; Colonel; Court; Fairy; Jim; London; Parkes; Pat; Queen; SPOOK; Twas; ghost; good; illustration; irish; like; look; man; night; think summary = I saw an eye, that should have seen that night a foreign shore, The door was gently opened and a lady cried "Come in!" A scene of early days of Anglo-foreign strife rose before me like a "I''d like to be a soldier lad, with you to love!" said he. And he counted his pulse, said the girl "Do you think he''s likely to Said he to another, "Yer like yer mother, One night there was a darkness, like crape upon the land, Whin Pat at last had come of age, It took a hundred years or so, "Ketch on to this!" said Pat O''Toole, an'' like a soft, good Whin like a merricle it stopped, the sun came out, said Pat But spake that constable, said he, "good night is best for you, ye ''Twas on her mother''s sofa he looked at her, said he, id = 31341 author = Taylor, Joseph title = Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed date = keywords = Friar; Gille; God; Justice; King; Lady; Lindorf; Monsieur; Mr.; St.; bed; door; ghost; great; house; man; night; room; time summary = room: we heard two voices, and we saw the candle on a table near the related; it happened, that the gentleman''s house was at that time full, believe her tale, till he went himself to the door, and heard his wife story." "My Lord," answered the Justice, "as I lay one night in my bed, room, where the same noise followed, and was frequently heard all night. poison?--Yes. Whether she was K----''s wife''s sister?--Yes. Whether she was married to K----?--No. Whether any other person than K---was concerned in the poisoning?--No. Whether she could visibly appear to any one?--Yes. Whether she would do so?--Yes. Whether she could go out of that house?--Yes. Whether she would follow the child everywhere?--Yes. Whether she was pleased at being asked questions?--Yes. Whether it eased her mind?--Yes. girl''s chamber by the ladies who remained near her bed, and who heard id = 45362 author = Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. (Thomas Firminger) title = The Ghost World date = keywords = Banshee; Castle; Culture; Dr.; England; Eve; Folk; Hall; House; Indians; Ireland; Lady; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Mythology; Northern; Notes; Primitive; Queries; Scotland; Scott; Sir; St.; Superstitions; Tylor; Walter; chapter; death; footnote; ghost; man; soul; spirit summary = living man or woman, whose spirit henceforward haunts the place. this;''[53] a statement which reminds us of a ghost described by Mrs. Crowe,[54] who, on appearing after death, was seen to have the very the classic stories of ghosts that haunt the living till laid by which appear by night in swampy places, are the souls of the dead--men murdered man''s ghost appearing every night, and calling hands to which flew towards heaven; and a similar story is told of Joan of Arc. The Russian peasantry affirm that the souls of the departed haunt their ghost of Lord Tyrone had appeared to her at the hour of his death, and Stories of ghosts having appeared at sea have been told from early generally received belief in ghost lore that spirits are accustomed accredited ghost story'' that he had ever heard, the spirit of a Mr. Ford, said to have been the riotous parson of Hogarth''s ''Midnight id = 39769 author = Tweedale, Violet title = Ghosts I Have Seen, and Other Psychic Experiences date = keywords = Blavatsky; Chambers; Cromartie; Divine; Duchess; France; God; Lady; London; Lord; Miss; Mrs.; Prince; Queen; Wynford; day; great; hear; house; life; look; man; night; old; room; tell; time summary = half-closed door, and went on into a small room beyond, which was used I was about six years old when my family moved to a brand new house in closed rooms and winding staircases, and odd steps in long, dark spent most of our time in the Green Room, and I knew every turn and later in the day an old servant of ours said to me, "I saw the wraith Soon the old man entered, a very ordinary looking person, and civilly The room he slept in was a large one, and the bed faced the door, and a in the dead man''s study, when the room was suddenly invaded by the old Naturally, I instantly opened my eyes and looked out into the room, heard him come up to his room half an hour after I did. had seen him, and back I went to the mill house, feeling by this time id = 59872 author = Waterworth, E. M. title = Our Den date = keywords = Edric; Harold; Jack; Kathleen; Rupert; illustration summary = "I think I shall like seeing Cousin Kathleen," I said, rather shyly; mother, when father had gone out to look at a new horse which he had We both laughed, and mother said something about believing father "It''s the other side of the water," said Rupert, laughing; "I know "Except when Rupert went into a rage and hit Harold, then father told "Let''s carry Edric upstairs," said Kathleen; "he can tell us where to "Now, what shall we do this afternoon?" said Rupert the next day, "You''d better sit down," said father, less sternly; but Rupert took "Of course, I know that," said Jack, recovering a little of his usual "Mischief again?" said father, just catching my knowing look across "Let''s have a good look at that chest," said Rupert, when Kathleen "So we shall dine here, then," said Rupert, with a look at Jack, who id = 14522 author = Wilde, Oscar title = The Canterville Ghost date = keywords = Canterville; Lord; Minister; Mr.; Mrs.; Otis; Virginia; ghost summary = Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, "I fear that the ghost exists," said Lord Canterville, smiling, "though housekeeper, whom Mrs. Otis, at Lady Canterville''s earnest request, had Suddenly Mrs. Otis caught sight of a dull red stain on the floor just by "How horrid!" cried Mrs. Otis; "I don''t at all care for blood-stains in closed my eyes in sleep for the awful things that are done here." Mr. Otis, however, and his wife warmly assured the honest soul that they existence of ghosts, Mrs. Otis expressed her intention of joining the opened, and Mrs. Otis came out in a light blue dressing-gown. wandered moaning round the house like a lost soul; but the Otis family The old Canterville look came into his eyes; he ground his little time he returned and said that he could not find Miss Virginia The next morning, before Lord Canterville went up to town, Mr. Otis had id = 14099 author = nan title = True Irish Ghost Stories date = keywords = Co.; Dublin; Esq; Ireland; Limerick; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; door; hear; house; irish; man; night; room; story; time summary = dining-room door, I found my old lady standing on the mat outside with heard in the next house, for our next-door neighbour once asked my bad man, and I died the death." He named the room in the house in which lady of the house, that once night falls, no doors can be kept closed. man told us that many strange things happened in that house long before experiences in a haunted house: "Some years ago, my father, mother, seen two or three nights at a time, chiefly in the one room. heard, and then the ''thing'' came through the room to the foot of the bed. He said he saw a man in cap and gown come into the room with house before we went in, slept in this room, and in the morning said she We told the man of the house we would sit up in the room till id = 16538 author = nan title = The Alleged Haunting of B—— House Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor date = keywords = B----; Bute; Colonel; Freer; H----; Langton; Lord; March; Miss; Moore; Mr.; Mrs.; S---- summary = both these rooms I heard the loud and inexplicable noises every night, usual, came out of his room to hear if I had seen or heard anything, room was much nearer to where the sounds came from) said he had heard same noises were heard at all hours day and night by herself and her _February 9th, Tuesday._--Last night we--Miss Moore and I--heard had heard Mrs. W---talking in Miss Langton''s room. Miss Moore and I again this morning heard noises in No. 8, more you when I left, heard sounds of footsteps going round her room, March 6th by Miss Freer, who had not heard at all of his experiences, (Miss Moore heard their voices when she came to my room at ten Miss Langton in No. 8 heard sounds after daylight--footsteps heard sounds as of some one reading in Miss Langton''s room, No. id = 17229 author = nan title = The Haunted Hour: An Anthology date = keywords = Bray; God; Ingoldsby; Iscariot; Judas; Lord; Margaret; Mary; Mother; Sir; Twas; William; away; come; dead; ghost; hear; like; little; night summary = _And you shall pluck blue roses the day that you are dead._ And not a star looked out to watch the living kiss the dead. But Mollie in the cold, dark night, has found her heart''s desire. (On All Souls'' Night the dead walk on Kingston She heard her heart''s blood drip in the night, The little dead child came up the stair "Oh, hold thy peace, my little dead child. "God judge my men!" said the fair young soul, By day Golgotha sleeps, but when night comes I said, "I will sail to my love this night _Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair._ "She is dead!" they said to him; "come away; And the nights went by like the moaning wind And say ''Come this night to thy lady''s bower, When day was come and night was gone, When day was come and night was gone,