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PREFACE
THIS is not exactly a book of downright ghost-stories as the cover makes believe. It is rather a collection of facts that never quite explained themselves. All that the collector is certain of is, that one man insisted upon dying because he believed himself to be haunted; another man either made up a wonderful lie and stuck to it, or visited a very strange place; while the third man was indubitably crucified by some person or persons unknown, and gave an extraordinary account of himself.
The peculiarity of ghost-stories is that they are never told first-hand. I have managed, with infinite trouble, to secure one exception to this rule. It is not a very good specimen, but you can credit it from beginning to end. The other three stories you must take on trust; as I did.
RUDYARD KIPLING
Contents:
- The Phantom 'Rickshaw
- The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
- The Recrudescence of Imray
- My Own True Ghost Story
- At the End of the Passage
- The Man Who Would be King
- The Mutiny of the Mavericks
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