title: AN Uninvited Ghost (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery)
author:  E.J. Copperman 
description: <b>E. J. Copperman</b>is the Barry Awardwinning, national bestselling author of the Haunted Guesthouse Mysteries, most recently<i>Ghost in the Wind</i>,<i>Inspector Specter,</i>and<i>The Thrill of the Haunt</i>, as well as the novellas<i>A Wild Ghost Chase</i>and<i>An Open Spook</i>.
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  The Ghost of Lord Clarenceux  
    
  
  
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  # The Ghost of Lord Clarenceux
  
  
  ### ARNOLD BENNETT
  
  
  
  
  
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  IN the chair which stood before the writing-table in the middle of the room
  sat the figure of
  
  
  Lord Clarenceux. The figure did not move as I went in; its back was towards
  me. At the
  
  
  other end of the room was the doorway, which led to the small bedroom, little
  more than an
  
  
  alcove, and the gaze of the apparition was fixed on this doorway. I closed the
  door behind
  
  
  me and locked it, and then stood still. In the looking-glass over the
  mantelpiece I saw a
  
  
  drawn, pale, agitated face, in which all the trouble in the world seemed to
  reside; it was my
  
  
  own face. I was alone in the room with the ghost—the ghost which, jealous of
  my love for
  
  
  the woman it had loved, meant to revenge itself 