Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Publisher: LibriVox
Published: 2006-02-06
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: The Ways of Ghosts: Stories of encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer.; title: Contents (with beginning time):; title: Present at a Hanging (02:06); title: A Cold Greeting (07:07); title: A Wireless Message (11:15); title: An Arrest (17:04); title: Soldier Folk: Oddities of death and life; from a man who finds that his death is uncertain, through the effects of war on the family, duty that survives death, to the memory of revenge.; title: Contents (with beginning time):; title: A Man with Two Lives (00:31); title: Three and One are One (06:23); title: A Baffled Ambuscade (14:18); title: Two Military Executions (19:45); title: Some Haunted Houses - Part One: Encounters of the living with the spirits of the dead who have been bound into buildings. An old man revenges himself; a journalist investigates a haunted house; and the quivering vine that tangles the face of a deserted home.; title: Contents (with beginning time):; title: The Isle of Pines (00:31); title: A Fruitless Assignment (10:39); title: A Vine on a House (17:54); title: Some Haunted Houses - Part Two: Houses where the living are never seen again, memories of the mortuary live on, and a murdered man wanders through.; title: Contents (with beginning time):; title: At Old Man Eckert’s (00:30); title: The Spook House (06:36); title: The Other Lodgers (16:04); title: The Thing at Nolan (21:50); title: Mysterious Disappearances: Three short tales of men who have vanished living their ordinary lives, sometimes in full view of witnesses; plus a short, probably fictional, description of a theory to partly explain these events.; title: Contents (with beginning time):; title: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (00:32); title: An Unfinished Race (05:18); title: Charles Ashmore’s Trail (07:50); title: Science to the Front (12:23)