Great Ghost Stories, Selected by Joseph Lewis French

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Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918 - 365 頁
 

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第 15 頁 - I then turned my glance to my left, and saw the flame of the candles violently swayed as by a wind. At the same moment the watch beside the revolver softly slid from the table — softly, softly, no visible hand — it was gone. I sprang up, seizing the revolver with the one hand, the dagger with the other; I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor — no sign of the watch. Three slow, loud, distinct knocks were now heard at the bed-head;...
第 24 頁 - I can not do more than state the fact fairly ; the reader may draw his own inference. Another surprising circumstance — my watch was restored to the table from which it had been so mysteriously withdrawn ; but it had stopped at the very moment it was so withdrawn ; nor, despite all the skill of the watchmaker, has it ever gone since — that is, it will go in a strange erratic way for a few hours, and then comes to a dead stop — it is worthless.
第 20 頁 - Will-o'-the-Wisps, the sparks moved, slow or swift, each at its own caprice. A chair (as in the drawing-room below) was now advanced from the wall without apparent agency, and placed at the opposite side of the table. Suddenly, as forth from the chair, there grew a shape — a woman's shape.
第 29 頁 - ... hands rise and remove material objects, or a Thing of Darkness, such as presented itself to me, freeze our blood — still am I persuaded that these are but agencies conveyed, as by electric wires, to my own brain from the brain of another.
第 32 頁 - I repaired to the haunted house — we went into the blind dreary room, took up the skirting, and then the floors. Under the rafters, covered with rubbish, was found a trapdoor, quite large enough to admit a man. It was closely nailed down, with clamps and rivets of iron. On removing these we descended into a room below, the existence of which had never been suspected. In this room there had been a window and a flue, but they had been bricked over, evidently for many years. By the help of candles...
第 30 頁 - I had taken them; that he had read them with misgivings like my own; that he had instituted a cautious inquiry about the woman to whom I rightly conjectured they had been written. It seemed that thirty-six years ago (a year before the date of the letters) she had married, against the wish of her relations, an American of very suspicious character; in fact, he was generally believed to have been a pirate. She herself was the daughter of very respectable tradespeople, and had served in the capacity...
第 28 頁 - I see much that philosophy may question, nothing that it is incumbent on philosophy to deny — viz., nothing supernatural. They are but ideas conveyed somehow or other (we have not yet discovered the means) from one mortal brain to another. Whether, in so doing, tables walk...
第 30 頁 - The neighbours deposed to have heard it shriek at night. The surgeon who had examined it after death, said that it was emaciated as if from want of nourishment, and the body was covered with livid bruises. It seemed that one winter night the child had sought to escape - crept out into the...
第 5 頁 - My interest is exceedingly keen," said I, "and though only a coward will boast of his nerves in situations wholly unfamiliar to him, yet my nerves have been seasoned in such variety of danger that I have the right to rely on them — even in a haunted house." Mr. J said very little more; he took the keys of the house out of his bureau, gave them to me — and, thanking him cordially for his frankness, and his urbane concession to my wish, I carried off my prize.
第 12 頁 - I had sufficient curiosity to open the drawers; there were a few odds and ends of female dress, and two letters tied round with a narrow ribbon of faded yellow. I took the liberty to possess myself of the letters. We found nothing else in the room worth noticing - nor did the light reappear; but we distinctly heard, as we turned to go, a pattering footfall on the floor - just before us. We went through the other attics (in all, four), the footfall still preceding us. Nothing to be seen - nothing...

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