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[Introduction] That awful primitive terror that has nothing to do with reason or with knowing what you believe in and what you don't.
-Ruth Rendell, "The Haunting of Shawley Rectory"-
[Chapter 1] One thousand cells One thousand souls One thousand names On crime's sad rolls One thousand schemes that "ganged aglee" One thousand slaves that might be free
-Anonymous poem in the Ohio State Reformatory Museum-
[Chapter 2] All, all are sleeping on the hill.
-Edgar Lee Masters-
[Chapter 3] The quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies, And Lads and Girls; With laughter and ability and sighing, And frocks and curls.
-Emily Dickinson-
[Chapter 4] Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
[Chapter 5] You may hear the past calling to the future.
-Betty Priest Snider-
[Chapter 6] Death keeps this house of call, Whose sign-board wears no boast Save Beds for All.
-Sylvia Townsend Warner, "East London Cemetery"-
[Chapter 7] These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, thin air.
-William Shakespeare, The Tempest-
[Chapter 8] She considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost.
-Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)-
[Chapter 9] I ironed my blouse for the evening's event at the haunted Hinkley Library and went out to give my talk. When I returned ... I took a hot shower in the deep, old-fashioned tub ... I climbed out of the shower, wrapped myself in a towel, and opened the bathroom door to let out the steam. A young woman was standing there.
She was a short, stout woman, in her twenties, perhaps, wearing what could have been a striped skirt and waist or what the Edwardians called a "wrapper" or housedress. She also wore a long apron tied around her thick waist. I could tell her smooth hair was parted in the middle, but I wasn't getting much facial detail other than a heavy jaw.
"Are you pregnant?" she asked me in a curiously nasal tone. Without thinking, I replied, "No, just fat."
"How old are you? Do you have any children? What are you doing here?" The questions came in rapid fire, without waiting for my replies. I stammered answers, more than a little dazed by this chattering apparition. Studying her, I realized she was what might have been called "simple" or "not quite right". ... She was very nosy and completely unself-conscious. Then, just as suddenly, apparently losing interest, she was gone.
From Haunted Ohio IV, pp. 123-4
[Chapter 10] Coffins stood round like open presses, That showed the dead in their last dresses...
-Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" (1790)-
[Chapter 11] -none-
[Chapter 12] A great brick house, conceived in the most bizarre union of Georgian and Gothic styles ... The roof carried a half-dozen high pitched gables; the windows were tall and pointed in the manner of a church rectory, and the chimneys, built of white stone, were carved in the most ornate Gothic fashion.
-Louis Bromfield, The Green Bay Tree (1924)-
[Chapter 13] Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
-James Thurber-
[Chapter 14] They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
-Alexander Pope-
[Chapter 15] Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
-Attributed to Seattle, Chief of Dwamish (1854)-
[Chapter 16] "All right," said the Cat, and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-
[Chapter 17] Three ghosts went to a party and they really celebrated By midnight, what were they? Three sheets to the wind!
-Anonymous joke book-
[Chapter 18] This gray spirit yearning in desire
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson-
[Chapter 19] Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
-14th c. English proverb-
[Chapter 20] We two kept house, the Past and I, The past and I, I tended while it hovered nigh, Leaving me never alone.
-Thomas Hardy-
[Chapter 21] A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day.
-Irving Berlin-
[Chapter 22] ...she knew the whole duty of womankind, To take the burden and have the power And seem like the well-protected flower, To manage a dozen industries With a casual gesture in scraps of ease, To hate the sin and love the sinner And to see that the gentlemen got their dinner...
-Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body (1927)-
[Chapter 23] We are the hollow men...
-T. S. Eliot-
[Chapter 24] "Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman. "I wish I could say they were not."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
-Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol" (1843)-
[Appendix 1] -none-
[Appendix 2] The ghosts you chase, you never catch.
-John Malkovich-
[Appendix 3] -none-
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To Mr. Electromagnetism who cheerfully answers my science questions in words of one syllable.
To Anne Oscard who is always willing to listen over sushi.
To Joye Opt, who works tirelessly to make my books look wonderful.
To Linda Marcas, for her encyclopedic stock of useless information.
To Libby Hertenstein, for her bare-bones ghost stories.
To Marsha Hamilton, for her good sense and ruthless wisdom in the ways of commas.
To Curt Dalton, who makes me look good.
And to my daughter, a treat to go ghost hunting with and to my husband, resident skeptic, technical advisor and devil's advocate, much love.
Incipit
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[Introduction] The great British ghost story writer M. R. James once wrote, "I want to make the reader feel that, 'If I'm not very careful, this could happen to me.'"
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