The following narrative was found among the papers of Dr. James Hardcastle, who died of phthisis on February 4th, 1908, at 36, Upper Coventry Flats, South Kensington. Those who knew him best, while re...Full Article
My friend, Lionel Dacre, lived in the Avenue de Wagram, Paris. His house was that small one, with the iron railings and grass plot in front of it, on the left-hand side as you pass down from the Arc d...Full Article
I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. ...Full Article
CHAPTER I - THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSEUnder none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house whi...Full Article
Halloa! Below there! When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have th...Full Article
IThe course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in t...Full Article
Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through. IThere are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think...Full Article
Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la notre .... Voila toute la difference. IToward the end of the year 1920 the government of the United States had practically completed the...Full Article
A man stepped out of the darkness into the little illuminated circle about our failing camp-fire and seated himself upon a rock. You are not the first to explore this region, ...Full Article
Northwestwardly from Indian Hill, about nine miles as the crow flies, is Macargers Gulch. It is not much of a gulch -- a mere depression between two wooded ridges of inconsiderable height. From its mo...Full Article
1. Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr.I am the most unfortunate of men. Rich, respected, fairly well educated and of sound health -- with many other advantages usually valued by those having them and covete...Full Article
It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted. In all the rural district near about, and even in the town of Marshall, a mile away, not one person of unbiased mind entertains a doubt of it; in...Full Article
I: One Does Not Always Eat What is on the TableBy the light of a tallow candle which had been placed on one end of a rough table a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account bo...Full Article
Of two men who were talking one was a physician. I sent for you, Doctor, said the other, but I dont think you can do me any good. Maybe you can recommend a specialist in psych...Full Article
The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince. That he really was buried, the testimony of his senses compelled him ...Full Article
Many years ago, on my way from Hong Kong to New York, I passed a week in San Francisco. A long time had gone by since I had been in that city, during which my ventures in the Orient had prospered beyo...Full Article
I am not so superstitious as some of your physicians - men of science, as you are pleased to be called, said Hawver, replying to an accusation that had not been made. Some of you - only a few, I confe...Full Article
The trouble with Harrowby Hall was that it was haunted, what was worse, the ghost did not content itself with merely appearing at the bedside of the afflicted person who saw it, but persisted in remai...Full Article
Weigall, continental and detached, tired early of grouse shooting. To stand propped against a sod fence while his hosts workmen routed up the birds with long poles and drove them towards the waiting g...Full Article
IThe great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious youth, the possession of an ancestral hall in England. It was not so much the good Americans reverence for ancestors that inspired the...Full Article
