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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Border Ghost Stories, by Howard Pease 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: Border Ghost Stories Author: Howard Pease Release Date: December 8, 2008 [EBook #27449] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BORDER GHOST STORIES *** Produced by David Clarke, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) 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
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