EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY ERNEST RHYS

PUBLISHED IN LONDON BY
DANIEL O'CONNOR, 90 GREAT
RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1. 1921

For permission to use copyright stories in this volume, the editor and publishers wish to make special acknowledgments to Messrs Allen & Unwin, Mr Arnold Bennett, Mr E.H. Blakeney, Sir George Douglas, Bart., Dr Greville MacDonald, Mr Arthur Machen, and Mr Thomas Hardy.

CONTENTS

[I.] GHOST STORIES FROM LITERARY SOURCES
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1. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER[17]
2. THE OLD NURSE'S STORY[40]
3. THE SUPERSTITIOUS MAN'S STORY[54]
4. A STORY OF RAVENNA[58]
5. TEIG O'KANE AND THE CORPSE[67]
6. THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS: OR THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN[83]
7. THE BOTATHEN GHOST[128]
8. THE GHOST OF LORD CLARENCEUX[138]
9. DR DUTHOIT'S VISION[143]
10. THE SEVEN LIGHTS[147]
11. THE SPECTRAL COACH OF BLACKADON[160]
12. DRAKE'S DRUM[169]
13. THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM[171]
14. THE POOL IN THE GRAVEYARD[179]
15. THE LIANHAN SHEE[181]
16. THE HAUNTED COVE[216]
17. WANDERING WILLIE'S TALE[225]
[II]. GHOST STORIES FROM LOCAL RECORDS, FOLK LORE, AND LEGEND
18. GLAMIS CASTLE[249]
19. POWYS CASTLE[253]
20. CROGLIN GRANGE[259]
21. THE GHOST OF MAJOR SYDENHAM[264]
22. THE MIRACULOUS CASE OF JESCH CLAES[268]
23. THE RADIANT BOY OF CORBY CASTLE[270]
24. CLERK SAUNDERS[274]
25. DOROTHY DURANT[280]
26. PEARLIN JEAN[284]
27. THE DENTON HALL GHOST[287]
28. THE GOODWOOD GHOST STORY[293]
29. CAPTAIN WHEATCROFT[300]
30. THE IRON CAGE[303]
31. THE GHOST OF ROSEWARNE[310]
32. THE IRON CHEST OF DURLEY[317]
33. THE STRANGE CASE OF M. BEZUEL[320]
34. THE MARQUIS DE RAMBOUILLET[326]
35. THE ALTHEIM REVENANT[329]
36. SERTORIUS AND HIS HIND[331]
37. ERICHTHO[334]
[III]. OMENS AND PHANTASMS
38. PATROKLOS[343]
39. VISION OF CROMWELL[345]
40. LORD STRAFFORD'S WARNING[346]
41. KOTTER'S RED CIRCLE[348]
42. THE VISION OF CHARLES XI. OF SWEDEN[350]
43. BEN JONSON'S PREVISION[359]
44. QUEEN ULRICA[360]
45. DENIS MISANGER[362]
46. THE PIED PIPER[365]
47. JEANNE D'ARC[367]
48. ANNE WALKER[368]
49. THE HAND OF GLORY[371]
50. THE BLOODY FOOTSTEP[375]
51. THE GHOSTLY WARRIORS OF WORMS[378]
52. THE WANDERING JEW IN ENGLAND[379]
53. BENDITH EU MAMMAU[382]
54. THE RED BOOK OF APPIN[385]
55. THE GOOD O'DONOGHUE[387]
56. SARAH POLGRAIN[390]
57. ELEANOR COBHAM, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER[393]