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Title: Border Ghost Stories

Author: Howard Pease

Release Date: December 8, 2008 [EBook #27449]

Language: English

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BORDER GHOST STORIES

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

_Tales of Northumbria_
_Magnus Sinclair_
_The Lord Wardens of the Marches_, _etc._

BORDER GHOST STORIES

BY

HOWARD PEASE

AUTHOR OF
'TALES OF NORTHUMBRIA,' 'MAGNUS SINCLAIR'
'THE LORD WARDENS OF THE MARCHES OF
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND,' ETC.

ERSKINE MACDONALD LTD. LONDON, W.C. 1

_First published 1919_

TO

THE MEMORY OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT

THE TUTELARY GENIUS OF THE BORDERLAND

THESE TALES ARE INSCRIBED BY A

LATTER DAY BORDERER

PREFACE

Certain places, said Stevenson, cry out for a story, and Scott, in any
new surroundings, straightway invented an appropriate tale, if there
were not already a story or tradition in existence. One might even
believe that the place itself tells its own tale to the sympathetic
imagination.

Thus Mr. Bligh Bond in his book, _The Gate of Remembrance_, implies that
the whisperings of the _genius loci_ enabled him to make his astonishing
discovery of the lost Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury Abbey.

'Multa modis simulacra videt volitantia miris,
Et varias audit voces, fruiturque Deorum
Colloquio, atque imis Acheronta affatur Avernis.'

The scene of the following ghost stories usually becomes manifest in the
text, but it might be mentioned that 'Castle Ichabod' stands for Seaton
Delaval