title: Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age
author: Various
description: "This charming collection is full of atmosphere, anticipation and spooky goings on, enough to keep you awake at night and not just because you need to read just one more page."<br />-Erisea Magazine
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  Two Fragments of Ghost Stories
  
  
    
    
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  # Two Fragments of Ghost Stories
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Gaskell
  
  
  
  
  
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  I have no objection to tell you to what I alluded the other night,
  
  
  as I am too rational, I trust, to believe in ghosts; at the same time,
  
  
  I own it has ever remained an unexplained circumstance; and the
  
  
  impression it left on my own mind was so vivid and so painful that for
  
  
  years I could not bear to think at all on the subject. To you, even, I
  
  
  do not mind owning that I once made a considerable round to avoid
  
  
  Birmingham as a sleeping-place. This was thoroughly ridiculous; and so
  
  
  I felt it at the time. I think you know enough of my father and mother
  
  
  to recall a little of the gentle formality of the Society to which they
  
  
  