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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed, by Joseph Taylor This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Author: Joseph Taylor Release Date: February 21, 2010 [EBook #31341] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK APPARITIONS *** Produced by Bryan Ness, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) APPARITIONS; OR, THE MYSTERY OF Ghosts, Hobgoblins, AND HAUNTED HOUSES, _DEVELOPED_. *** "Animum rege." "This Collection of Stories is well chosen, and affords a fund of amusement that is cheap at the price of five shillings. By putting such a book as this into the hands of children, parents will more effectually guard their minds against weak credulity, than by grave philosophic admonition." _Monthly Review, October 1814._ Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, Smithfield [Illustration: H Corbould _delint_ C Knight _sculpt_ 1814 _The Haunted Beach._] APPARITIONS; OR, THE MYSTERY OF Ghosts, _Hobgoblins_, _and Haunted Houses_, DEVELOPED. BEING A COLLECTION OF ENTERTAINING STORIES, _FOUNDED ON FACT_, And selected for the purpose of ERADICATING THOSE FEARS, WHICH THE IGNORANT, THE WEAK, AND THE SUPERSTITIOUS, ARE BUT TOO APT TO ENCOURAGE, FOR WANT OF PROPERLY EXAMINING INTO THE CAUSES OF SUCH ABSURD IMPOSITIONS. *** BY JOSEPH TAYLOR. [Illustration] _SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED._ *** London: PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. FINSBURY SQUARE. *** 1815. INTRODUCTION. The subsequent little Work owes its rise and progress to very trifling circumstances. In the early part of my life, having read many books in favour of Ghosts and Spectral Appearances, the recollection remained so strong in my mind, that, for _years_ after, the dread of phantoms bore irresistib
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