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Excerpt from Myra's Well: A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en Yet hist! Faint eerie tones are sometimes heard Which blanch the cheek and palsy all the limbs Like to the moaning of departed souls! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The following is a long-form poem written by George Francis Dawson. It begins with the following verses: "It is the night of all nights of the year / When ghosts and warlocks haunt the troubled earth / And disembodied spirits visit us—Spirits of good and evil from the dead."

"[...]o'clock-and still a mile from home! And there is Elpsie's hut! What did she mean?" And as he notes the dull outpouring light The cranny grows more bright, and larger seems! "What could that mean? A moment more would tell." And then he hears the warlock's prophecy! He peers within and sees, or seems to see, A sweet and sad-eyed maiden all alone, Reclining on a couch hard-by the fire! He rubs his eyes, as dreaming, looks again- And sees an empty couch, dull flickering flames, And toothless Elpsie rocking to and fro! Then he remembers, with a start, that once- O, long ago!-he knows not when nor where- He had a dream, distinct and plain as this, In which he saw this self-same sad-eyed maid Upon the couch-and then the toothless hag! And after that, beside a moss-grown well- Could that be Myra's?-kneeling on the curb, Her golden hair half-silvered by the moon, And violet eyes lit up by love divine, His Ada-his! And then there came a mist Which blotted from his[...]".

Eighteen poems celebrate the holiday of pumpkins, black cats, witches, and ghosts.

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DigiCat presents to you this unique Halloween collection of the greatest horror classics, the darkest mysteries and supernatural tales: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond... Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum... Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo Ancient Sorceries... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Heir of Mondolfo The Invisible Girl... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Lair of the White Worm... Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House To Be Read At Dusk... Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Devil's Spectacles Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables... Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek George W. M. Reynolds: Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Catherine Crowe: Ghosts and Family Legends Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse's Story The Poor Clare... Fitz-James O'Brien: The Lost Room The Diamond Lens Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep...