Tagged “Miscellany”
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Haunted Stump Folktales
Over on Multo, I've got an assembly of haunted stump stories. Ghostly hands, spiritual voices, and cursed disasters abound. I'm sure there are more such tales out there, but these are the ones I've found so far. While trawling the HathiTrust archive the...
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Hunting the Ghost of Lille
I found the story of the Ghost of Lille in an interesting volume called Lord Halifax's Ghost Book, a selection of the "true" ghost stories collected by Charles Lindley Wood, the second Viscount Halifax (1839-1934), over the course of his...
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Spukenswald
The Internet Archive is a treasure trove that sometimes gives up wonderful little delights: "Spukenswald" is one such gem. I found it while excavating the Christmas 1909 issue of a magazine called The Scrap Book. I wrote about this on Multo, but...
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The Cavern of Steenfoll
"The Cavern of Steenfoll," subtitled "A Scottish Legend," is a dark and lovely tale from the pen of German Romantic writer Wilhelm Hauff. If you've been following my research on Evening Tales for the Winter, then it will also be a...
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The Legend of Old Spital Inn
One of the pieces that Vincent Price reads on his 1974 spooky tales album, A Graveyard of Ghost Tales, is a story called "The Ghostly Hand of Spital House," by Dorothy Gladys Spicer. This is a fun and engaging tale about some bandits who try to...
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Side Excursion: The Struggling Astrologer, Issue One
In my previous post, I tracked down the origin of the story called "The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century" in Henry St. Clair's anthology Tales of Terror/Evening Tales for the Winter. That search led me to St. Clair's source: a story entitled...
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