Ghost Stories - And Phantom Fancies #232861

The following book is, therefore, an attempt, not to revive an exploded superstition, but to rescue' a creature of the human brain from most undeserved neglect. The writer, like the prince of Denmark, exclaims, Alas! Poor Ghost l and at this present Christmas time, and at other times too, when, drawing round the fire, we delight stories of the superhuman and the marvellous, seeks, by a. Simple and a kindly fiction, to beguile the time, to exercise the imagination, and, it is hoped, to leave the heart not unimproved.