The Haunters The Haunted

The Haunters & The Haunted

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Title: The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural
Author: Various
Editor: Ernest Rhys
Release Date: March 9, 2006 [EBook #17953]
Language: English
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THE HAUNTERS & THE HAUNTED
GHOST STORIES AND TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
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
PAGE
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
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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
PAGE
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

INTRODUCTION
In this Ghost Book, M. Larigot, himself a writer of supernatural tales, has collected a remarkable batch of documents, fictive or real, describing the one human experience that is hardest to make good. Perhaps the very difficulty of it has rendered it more tempting to the writers who have dealt with the subject. His collection, notably varied and artfully chosen as it is, yet by no means exhausts the literature, which fills a place apart with its own recognised classics, magic masters, and dealers in the occult. Their testimony serves to show that the forms by which men and women are haunted are far more diverse and subtle than we knew. So much so, that one begins to wonder at last if every person is not liable to be "possessed." For, lurking under the seeming identity of these visitations, the dramatic differences of their entrances and appearances, night and day, are so marked as to suggest that the experience is, given the fit temperament and occasion, inevitable.
One would even be disposed, accepting this idea, to bring into the account, as valid, stories and pieces of literature not usually accounted part of the ghostly canon. There are the novels and tales whose argument is the tragedy of a haunted mind. Such are Dickens' Haunted Man, in which the ghost is memory; Hawthorne's _Scarlet Letter, in which the ghost is cruel conscience; and Balzac's Quest of the Absolute_, in which the old Flemish house of Balthasar Claes, in the Rue de Paris at Douai, is haunted by a d?mon more potent than that of Canidia. One might add some of Balzac's shorter stories, among them "The Elixir"; and some of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, including "Edward Randolph's Portrait." On the French side we might note too that terrible graveyard tale of Guy de Maupassant, La Morte, in which the lover who has lost his beloved keeps vigil at her grave by night in his despair, and sees--dreadful resurrection--"que toutes les tombes ��taient ouvertes, et tous les cadavres en ��taient sortis." And why? That they