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You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and a...

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A. S. ByattAngels and Insects

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

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You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear...

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He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass ...

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The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to c...

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The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it a...

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Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was...

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The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into ...

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E. F. BensonThe Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T...

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Come in! come in !’ he sobbed.‘Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart’s darling! hear me thi...

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Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

I had turned my mind from my survival just as a man suffering from a deadly sickness manages by a th...

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx th...

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Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, ...

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I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just-...

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A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered int...

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Karl MarxThe Communist Manifesto

To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...

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Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of ...

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A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possib...

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