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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lock And Key Library, by Various 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.net Title: The Lock And Key Library Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English Author: Various Editor: Julian Hawthorne Release Date: June 4, 2005 [EBook #2038] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY *** Produced by Don Lainson. Text file originally posted in January, 2000 with an html conversion added by Walter Deboeuf in 2003. The present text and html files were produced by Suzanne Shell, M, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; THE LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY CLASSIC MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES _EDITED BY_ JULIAN HAWTHORNE MODERN ENGLISH Rudyard Kipling A. Conan Doyle Egerton Castle Stanley J. Weyman Wilkie Collins Robert Louis Stevenson NEW YORK THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. 1909 [Illustration: "And Sent out a Jet of Fire from His Nostrils" Drawing by Power O'Malley. To illustrate "In the House of Suddhoo," by Rudyard Kipling] Rudyard Kipling _My Own True Ghost Story_ As I came through the Desert thus it was-- As I came through the Desert. _The City of Dreadful Night._ Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But he will insist upon treating his ghosts--he has published half a workshopful of them--with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and, in some cases, flirt outrageously, with the phantoms. You may treat anything, from a Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with levity; but you must behave reverently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one. There are, in this land, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveler passes. Then they drop upon his neck and remain. There are also terrible ghosts of wom
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