[ The Insanity of Jones : A Study in Reincarnation (chapter 1) - by Algernon Blackwood ] Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind. For only to the few whose inner senses have been quickened, perchance by some strange suffering in the depths, or by a
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 6) - by Walter Hubbell ] Esther is living with her friends the Van Amburgh’s, on their farm in the woods. The ghosts do not torment her now. With the Van Amburghs she has a quiet, peaceful home. One thing is certain, if she returned to Dan’s cottage manifestations would, in a short time, become as powerful as ever, and Heaven only knows where the matter would end. The author went to see her at the farm, On August 1st, 1879, and found her
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 5) - by Walter Hubbell ] I closed my engagement with the Dramatic Company of which I was a member, in Newfoundland, and went to Amherst, to expose, if possible, Esther Cox, the great Amherst Mystery. Where occasion requires allusion to myself, I shall simply say the author. At seven o’clock on the morning of June 21st, 1879, as the sun was shining brightly, and the cool breeze was blowing from the bay, the author entered the haunted house. After placing his umbrella in a corner of the dining room, and his satchel on the table, he
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