A ghost story / by Mark Twain
| dc.contributor | Internet Wiretap |
| dc.contributor.author | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T15:00:09Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T15:00:09Z |
| dc.date.created | 1870 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-05-06 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1856 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1856 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Short stories -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Short stories |
| dc.title | A ghost story / by Mark Twain |
| dc.type | Text |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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Internet Wiretap Edition of A GHOST STORY by MARK TWAIN From "Sketches New and Old", Copyright 1903, Samuel Clemens. This text is placed in the Public Domain (May 1993). A Ghost Story I TOOK a large room, far up Broadway, in a huge old building whose upper stories had been wholly unoccupied for years, until I came. The place had long been given up to dust and cobwebs, to solitude and silence. I seemed groping among the tombs and invading the privacy of the dead, that first night I climbed up to my quarters. For the first time in my life a superstitious dread came over me; and as I turned a dark angle of the stairway and an invisible cobweb swung its slazy woof in my face and clung there, I shuddered as one who had encountered a phantom. I was glad enough when I reached my room and locked out the mould and the darkness. A cheery fire was burning in the grate, and I sat down before it with a comforting sense of relief. For two hours I sat there, thinking of bygone times; recalling . . .
