โ Scribed by Cox, Michael, 1948-2009
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An engineer's story / Amelia B. Edwards -- Madam Crowl's ghost / J.S. Le Fanu -- Poor Pretty Bobby / Rhoda Broughton -- The ghostly rental / Henry James -- The lady's walk / Margaret Oliphant -- No. 11 Welham Square / Herbert Stephen -- The Khitmatgar / B.M. Croker -- Old Gervais / Mary Louisa Molesworth -- The phantom model / Hume Nisbet -- When I was dead / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Dark dignum / Bernard Capes -- The fifteenth man / Richard Marsh
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