Humorous Ghost Stories

Scarborough, Dorothy

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9782819914792
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The humorous ghost is distinctly a modern character. In early literature wraiths took themselves very seriously, and insisted on a proper show of respectful fear on the part of those whom they honored by haunting. A mortal was expected to rise when a ghost entered the room, and in case he was slow about it, his spine gave notice of what etiquette demanded. In the event of outdoor apparition, if a man failed to bare his head in awe, the roots of his hair reminded him of his remissness. Woman has always had the advantage over man in such emergency, in that her locks, being long and pinned up, are less easily moved - which may explain the fact (if it be a fact!) that in fiction women have shown themselves more self-possessed in ghostly presence than men. Or possibly a woman knows that a masculine spook is, after all, only a man, and therefore may be charmed into helplessness, while the feminine can be seen through by another woman and thus disarmed. The majority of the comic apparitions, curiously enough, are masculine

Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION
• The Canterville Ghost
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• VI
• VII
• THE GHOST-EXTINGUISHER
• "DEY AIN'T NO GHOSTS"
• THE TRANSFERRED GHOST
• THE MUMMY'S FOOT
• THE RIVAL GHOSTS
• THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL
• BACK FROM THAT BOURNE
• JOHN NEWBEGIN
• HIS SUDDEN DEATH
• HIS REAPPEARANCE AT POCOCK
• HIS DETERMINATION TO REMAIN
• A SINGULAR MEMBER OF SOCIETY
• AN INTERVIEW WITH A DEAD MAN
• IN CONCLUSION
• THE GHOST-SHIP
• THE TRANSPLANTED GHOST A CHRISTMAS STORY
• THE LAST GHOST IN HARMONY
• THE GHOST OF MISER BRIMPSON
• I
• II
• III
• THE HAUNTED PHOTOGRAPH
• THE GHOST THAT GOT THE BUTTON
• THE SPECTER BRIDEGROOM
• THE SPECTER OF TAPPINGTON
• IN THE BARN
• A SHADY PLOT
• THE LADY AND THE GHOST
• Copyright