num_pages: 19
description: In addition to the children’s tales that he is usually known for, Frank R. Stockton also wrote some ghost stories. This particular piece is from 1900. After a gentleman purchases an abandoned mansion, he begins to fall in love with the ghost of a young woman who returns to her old home once a year, on Christmas Eve, for a single hour. But what happens when he soon meets her, not as a specter but in real life?
title: The Great Staircase at Landover Hall: Supernatural Fiction Series
publisher: Lamp of Trismegistus