The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their comp

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Phil Brent was plodding through the snow in the direction of the house where he lived with his step-mother and her son when a snow-ball moist and hard struck him just below his ear with stinging emphasis.

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The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and in the history of the world often recurring state of society states the author in the preface.