Haunted Houses - Tales of the Supernatural; With Some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends #250831

But, nevertheless, the era of the haunted house has long been on the wane. There is too much intellectual priggishness prevalent nowadays for the fine old crusted tales Of the Moated Grange and its Spectral inhabitants to attract more than an amused tolerance, as things only fitting for children. To an age which knows so much more than was known fifty years ago, and therefore presumes that it has arrived at a complete knowledge of all there is to know in heaven and earth, talk of Spirits is — what a more subject was, in the words of St. Paul, to the Greeks foolishness.