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Excerpt from The Sorcery ClubBacking still further into the entrance of the store for a better protection from the rain, which, now falling heavier and heavier, was blown in by the wind, Hamar collided with a stand of books, with the result that one of them fell with a loud bang on the pavement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reprodu...

Excerpt from Ghosts of LondonWhen, on the morrow, I saw the unfortunate sentinel in the main guardroom, Mr. Swifte writes, his fellow sentinel was with him and testified to having seen him at his post, just before the alarm, awake and alert, and to have spoken to him. More over, I then heard the man tell his own story. I saw him once again on the following day, but changed beyond recognition in another day or two the brave and steady soldier, ...

Thus begins Elliott O'Donnell's novel, The Sorcery Club and thus begins the story of Leon Hamar who is forced to take refuge in a second-hand bookstore to avoid the rain and there ends up acquiring a curious book on the black arts in Atlantis. Hamar and his two friends study the book and the information contained therein with surprising and frightening results.Although The Sorcery Club is fiction, Elliott O'Donnell was an interested observer o...

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Excerpt from Mrs. E. M. Ward's ReminiscencesAbout my grandfather so much has already been written that it is difficult to find anything fresh to say. He has been described as a genius, and as an animal painter it is said he stood alone in his day. He was undoubtedly a worker - a constant worker - and in that one respect at least I might say he was a. Phenomenon, for no other word sums him up SO satisfactorily.He was one of those men Whom Fortu...

Excerpt from Scottish Ghost StoriesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, su...

Excerpt from Some Haunted Houses: Of England WalesIN selecting a series of ghost stories for this volume I have taken the greatest care to make use of those only which are thoroughly well authenticated.The result of this discrimination has been that the majority of these accounts of psychic phenomena have been taken from the lips of eye-witnesses and transferred to manuscript in as nearly as possible the narrator's own language.First-hand narr...

Excerpt from Byways of Ghost-LandWhether all that constitutes man's Spiritual nature, that is to say, all his mind, is inseparably amalgamated with the whitish mass of soft matter enclosed in his cranium and called his brain, is a question that must, one supposes, be ever open to debate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

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