After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Buda-Pesth, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On the big maps this deserted area is painted in a fluffy blue, growing fainter in color as it leaves the banks, and across it may be seen in large straggling letters the word Sümpfe, meaning marshes. In high flood this great acreage of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grown islands is almost topped by the water, but in normal seasons the bushes bend and rustle in the free winds, showing their silver leaves to the sunshine in an ever-moving plain of bewildering beauty. These willows never attain to the dignity of trees; they have no rigid trunks; they remain humble bushes, with rounded tops and soft outline, swaying on slender stems that answer to the least pressure of the wind; supple as grasses, and so continually shifting that they somehow give the impression that the entire plain is moving and alive. For the wind sends waves rising and falling over the whole surface, waves of leaves instead of waves of water, green swells like the sea, too, until the branches turn and lift, and then silvery white as their under-side turns to the sun. Happy to slip beyond the control of stern banks, the Danube here wanders about at will among the intricate network of channels intersecting the islands everywhere with broad avenues down which the waters pour with a shouting sound; making whirlpools, eddies, and foaming rapids; tearing at the sandy banks; carrying away masses of shore and willow-clumps; and forming new islands innumerable which shift daily in size and shape and possess at best an impermanent life, since the flood-time obliterates their very existence. Properly speaking, this fascinating part of the river's life begins soon after leaving Pressburg, and we, in our Canadian canoe, with gipsy tent and frying-pan on board, reached it on the crest of a rising flood about mid-July. That very same morning, when the sky was reddening before sunrise, we had slipped swiftly through still-sleeping Vienna, leaving it a couple of hours later a mere patch of smoke against the blue hills of the Wienerwald on the horizon; we had breakfasted below Fischeramend under a grove of birch trees roaring in the wind; and had then swept on the tearing current past Orth, Hainburg, Petronell (the old Roman Carnuntum of Marcus Aurelius), and so under the frowning heights of Theben on a spur of the Carpathians, where the March steals in quietly from the left and the frontier is crossed between Austria and Hungary.

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Classic ghost stories of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and others. In 1920, acclaimed author and editor Dorothy Scarborough collected what she believed to be the finest ghost stories of her time. Her quintessential anthology Famous Modern Ghost Stories includes entries from such pioneering horror writers as Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, and Myla Jo Closser. As Scarborough says in her introduction to this volume: “Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time.” The deceased and their mysterious spirits prove to be a source of endless fascination in the stories collected here, including Leonid Andreyev’s biblical speculation Lazarus; Fitz-James O’Brien’s gothic evocation of a New York City boarding house, What Was It?; Mary. E. Wilkins Freeman’s haunting narrative of three sisters, The Shadows on the Wall; and others.

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Discover a curated realm of modern ghost stories that will both intrigue and chill your senses. Famous Modern Ghost Stories: Selected, with an Introduction, (Illustrated): Spectral Sagas: Haunting Tales for the Modern Imagination: Step into a world where the boundary between reality and the supernatural blurs, as Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. invites you on an immersive journey through the haunting tales of our time. In Famous Modern Ghost Stories: Selected, with an Introduction, prepare to be captivated by a handpicked collection of eerie narratives that bridge the gap between the contemporary and the ethereal. Why This Book? Uncover the enigma of the unknown with these carefully chosen stories that delve into the realms of phantoms, apparitions, and unexplained phenomena. With an introduction that sets the stage for the eerie encounters to come, this book combines literary brilliance with the inexplicable, making it a must-read for those intrigued by the mysterious and the uncharted. Each tale in this illustrated anthology beckons you to explore the intricacies of the human experience, set against a backdrop of the supernatural. As the veil between the seen and the unseen is lifted, immerse yourself in stories that tap into the deepest corners of fear and fascination. With modern storytelling at its finest, Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. invites you to unlock the door to a world where the paranormal and the contemporary intertwine. For fans of both the classic ghost story and the modern literary masterpiece, Famous Modern Ghost Stories: Selected, with an Introduction is a captivating fusion that will leave you spellbound. Engage with a collection that offers insightful commentary on the eerie and unexplained, all while reveling in the artistry of storytelling that transcends time itself.

Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before. They are far more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more interested in them. There are persons that claim to be acquainted with specific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with them, and even some who insist that they are private secretaries to the dead. Others of us mortals, more reserved, are content to keep such distance as we may from even the shadow of a shade.

Fifteen ghost stories from writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood and many others.