title: Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood
author:  Jack Sullivan 
description: "This is a well-written, highly readable study of the development of the ghost story in England"
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  # The Shadows of the Dead
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Louis Becke
  
  
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  "IT is bad to speak of the ghosts of the dead when their shadows
  
  
  may be near," said Tulpé, the professed Christian, but pure,
  
  
  unsophisticated heathen at heart; "no one but a fool—or a careless
  
  
  white man such as thee, Tenisoni—would do that."
  
  
    
  Denison laughed, but Kusis, the stalwart husband of black-browed
  
  
  Tulpé, looked at him with grave reproval, and said in English, as he
  
  
  struck his paddle into the water—
  
  
    
  "Tulpé speak true, Mr. Denison. This place is a bad place at
  
  
  night-time, suppose you no make fire before you sleep. Plenty
  
  
  men—white men—been die here, and now us native people only come here
  
  
  when plenty of us come together. Then we not feel much afraid. Oh, yes,
  
  
  these two little island very bad places; long time ago many white men
  
  
  die here in the