GHOST STORIES AND TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY ERNEST RHYS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I GHOST STORIES FROM LITERARY SOURCES
I THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER By Edgar Allan Poe Son coeur
II THE OLD NURSE'S STORY From "The Portent" By George MacDonald
III THE SUPERSTITIOUS MAN'S STORY By Thomas Hardy
IV A STORY OF RAVENNA By Boccaccio
V TEIG O'KANE AND THE CORPSE [ Translated from the Irish ] By Dr Douglas Hyde
VI THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS: OR THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN By Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
VII THE BOTATHEN GHOST By the Rev. S.R. Hawker
VIII THE GHOST OF LORD CLARENCEUX By Arnold Bennett [2]
IX DR DUTHOIT'S VISION By Arthur Machen [3]
X THE SEVEN LIGHTS From Wilson's "Tales of the Borders"
XI THE SPECTRAL COACH OF BLACKADON
XII DRAKE'S DRUM By William Hunt
XIII THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM By William Hunt
XIV THE POOL IN THE GRAVEYARD By Greville MacDonald [5]
XV THE LIANHAN SHEE By Will Carleton
XVI THE HAUNTED COVE By Sir George Douglas , Bart.
XVII WANDERING WILLIE'S TALE By Sir Walter Scott
II GHOST STORIES FROM LOCAL RECORDS, FOLK LORE AND LEGEND
XVIII GLAMIS CASTLE Local Records
XIX POWYS CASTLE Local Records
XX CROGLIN GRANGE From Archdeacon Hare's Autobiography [10]
XXI THE GHOST OF MAJOR SYDENHAM By Joseph Glanvil [11]
XXII THE MIRACULOUS CASE OF JESCH CLAES From Christmas' "Phantom World"
XXIII THE RADIANT BOY OF CORBY CASTLE Local Records
XXIV CLERK SAUNDERS "Border Minstrelsy" Clerk Saunders and May
XXV DOROTHY DURANT By Mrs Crowe
XXVI PEARLIN JEAN By Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
XXVII THE DENTON HALL GHOST Local Records
XXVIII THE GOODWOOD GHOST STORY (Doubtfully attributed to Charles Dickens )
XXIX CAPTAIN WHEATCROFT From Dale Owen's "Footfalls"
XXX THE IRON CAGE From Mrs Crowe's "Night Side of Nature"
XXXI THE GHOST OF ROSEWARNE From Hunt's "Romances of the West of England"
XXXII THE IRON CHEST OF DURLEY By Joseph Glanvil [12]
XXXIII THE STRANGE CASE OF M. BEZUEL From Christmas ' "Phantom World"
XXXIV THE MARQUIS DE RAMBOUILLET "The Phantom World"
XXXV THE ALTHEIM REVENANT "The Phantom World"
XXXVI SERTORIUS AND HIS HIND North's "Plutarch"
XXXVII ERICHTHO By E.W. Godwin . (From Lucan.)
III OMENS AND PHANTASMS
XXXVIII PATROKLOS Homer's Iliad (E.H. Blakeney's translation [13] )
XXXIX VISION OF CROMWELL By " Arise Evans "
XL LORD STRAFFORD'S WARNING By the Rev. John Mastin
XLI KOTTER'S RED CIRCLE From Ferrier's "Apparitions"
XLII THE VISION OF CHARLES XI. OF SWEDEN From a ProcEs-verbal
XLIII BEN JONSON'S PREVISION Drummond's "Conversations"
XLIV QUEEN ULRICA AND THE COUNTESS STEENBOCK "Court Records"
XLV DENIS MISANGER "The Phantom World"
XLVI THE PIED PIPER "The Phantom World"
XLVII JEANNE D'ARC Ferrier's "Apparitions"
XLVIII ANNE WALKER Local Records
XLIX THE HAND OF GLORY Henderson's "Folk Lore"
L THE BLOODY FOOTSTEP Local Records
LI THE GHOSTLY WARRIORS OF WORMS "The Phantom World"
LII THE WANDERING JEW IN ENGLAND "Notes and Queries"
LIII BENDITH EU MAMMAU [15] By Edmund Jones
LIV THE RED BOOK OF APPIN Campbell's "Tales of the West Highlands"
LV THE GOOD O'DONOGHUE Irish Folk Tales
LVI SARAH POLGRAIN By William Hunt
LVII ELEANOR COBHAM, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER Godwin's "Lives of the Necromancers"