INTRODUCTION.
AN ESSAY ON GHOSTS AND APPARITIONS.
THE DOMINICAN FRIAR.
THE SUPERSTITIOUS COUPLE.
THE HAUNTED BED-ROOM.
REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF THE POWER OF IMAGINATION.
THE WESTMINSTER SCHOLARS.
THE IDEOT'S FUNERAL.
THE VENTRILOQUIST.
THE FEMALE FANATIC, AND HEAVENLY VISITOR .
THE FEMALE SPRITES.
THE PRUSSIAN DOMINO, OR FATAL EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY .
THE DEAD MAN AND ANATOMICAL PROFESSOR .
THE DRUNKEN BUCKS, AND CHIMNEY-SWEEP .
THE CRIPPLEGATE GHOST.
THE VENTRILOQUIST. (2)
THE SCHOOL-BOY APPARITION.
THE CREDULOUS PEASANTS.
THE NOCTURNAL DISTURBERS.
MARESCHAL SAXE, AND THE HAUNTED CASTLE .
REMARKABLE RESUSCITATION.
THE CREDULOUS BISHOP.
THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURER.
THE HEROIC MIDSHIPMAN; OR CHURCH-YARD ENCOUNTER .
THE COCK-LANE GHOST.
THE HYPOCHONDRIAC GENTLEMAN AND THE JACK-ASS .
THE CASTLE APPARITION.
THE TWINS, OR GHOST OF THE FIELD .
THE DOUBLE MISTAKE, OR COLLEGE GHOST .
THE HAUNTED CASTLE.
THE HAMMERSMITH GHOST.
THE FRIGHTENED CARRIER.
THE CLUB-ROOM GHOST.
THE LUNATIC APPARITION.
SUPPOSED SUPERNATURAL APPEARANCE.
THE APPARITION INVESTIGATED.
THE BENIGHTED TRAVELLER, AND HAUNTED ROOM .
THE HAUNTED BEACH, OR Power of Conscience on a Murderer .
THE SUBTERRANEAN TRAVELLER; OR GHOST AND NO GHOST .
THE MILKMAN AND CHURCH-YARD GHOST .
THE FAKENHAM GHOST.
THE UNFORTUNATE PRIEST, AND DEAD BODY .
THE VIGIL OF SAINT MARK, OR FATAL SUPERSTITION .
THE FLOATING WONDER, OR FEMALE SPECTRE .
POOR MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN .
GILES THE SHEPHERD, AND SPECTRE .
A MAN WITH HIS HEAD ON FIRE, AND COVERED WITH BLOOD .
THE INNOCENT DEVIL, OR AGREEABLE DISAPPOINTMENT .
THE SPECTRE OF THE BROKEN.
SIR HUGH ACKLAND.
AN AGREEABLE EXPLANATION.
THE SOMERSETSHIRE DEMONIAC.
THE MANIAC, OR FATAL EFFECTS OF WANTON MISCHIEF .
EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE DREAM, Without any Corresponding Event .
REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF THE POWER OF VISION.
THE PHILOSOPHER GASSENDI, AND THE HAUNTED BED-ROOM .
THE GHOST ON SHIP-BOARD.
A REMARKABLE STORY OF A GHOST,
THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER.
INDEX.
"Animum rege."
*** "This Collection of Stories is well chosen, and affords a fund of amusement that is cheap at the price of five shillings. By putting such a book as this into the hands of children, parents will more effectually guard their minds against weak credulity, than by grave philosophic admonition." Monthly Review, October 1814.
Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, Smithfield
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The Haunted Beach.
APPARITIONS;
OR, THE MYSTERY OF
Ghosts,
Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses,
DEVELOPED.
BEING A COLLECTION OF
ENTERTAINING STORIES,
FOUNDED ON FACT,
And selected for the purpose of
ERADICATING THOSE FEARS, WHICH THE IGNORANT, THE WEAK,
AND THE SUPERSTITIOUS, ARE BUT TOO APT TO ENCOURAGE,
FOR WANT OF PROPERLY EXAMINING INTO THE CAUSES
OF SUCH ABSURD IMPOSITIONS.
BY JOSEPH TAYLOR.
SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.
London:
PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.
FINSBURY SQUARE.
1815.
