Articles tagged with ghost-story
Ghost Story Review: "Back from the Bourne" by the ever prolific anonymous
According to a letter published in the New York Sun in 1874 (what might have been called a “humbug” back in the day), Pocock Island is home to some 311 souls off the coast of Maine. The principal industry is fishing. One eccentric r
Ghost Story Short Story Review "The Shadows of the Dead" by Louis Becke
This story is set in the south Pacific of the 19th century, an unusual setting for most published ghost stories. A Mr. Denison, supercargo (i.e., officer in charge of cargo and commercial concerns on a merchant marine ship) of the Leonora, is out fishing w
Short Short Review: "In the Barn" by Burges Johnson
The narrator of this story, a teacher, and his wife bring a group of students into an old barn that has been unused for some 30 years to tell them a seasonal ghost story. The girls arrange themselves in a circle on the hay. The teacher, already suspicious
Short Story Reveiw: Ghost Story: "The Specter of Tappington" by Richard Harris Barham
This story opens with Lt. Charles Seaforth looking under his bed. Seems his pants have gone missing. Seaforth, visiting some cousins, is on three years’ furlough from his regiment of Bombay Fencibles in the Hon. East India Company. He’s trying
short story review: “The Ghost that Got the Button” by Will Adams
This is a story within a story, told by a group of military men around the newly-installed steam radiators in the room of one of them after supper. They share tobacco and swap insults and tall tales. Whitehall, between puffs on his battered pipe, talks abo
Short Story Review: "The Transplanted Ghost" by Wallace Irwin
This is a silly little tale about a man with too much money who has transplanted a Norman castle from England to Perkinsville, Ohio. Thaddeus Hobson, so word on the street is, also, in keeping with ancient autocrats of old, keeps his daughter Anita locked
