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The Ghost Ship

Chapter 9 No.9

Word Count: 582    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

omely bizarre handbill continued to recur to his mind. The thing was so manifestly absurd, he told himself with co

tual fairness forced him to admit that as far as the man who had given him the bill was concerned, brainlessness was out of the question, and joking improbable. There had been depths in t

on be wantin

ions he might have construed the thing as an elaborate threat, but he was practically alone in

is flat, "it isn't worth worrying about. I mustn't let the whim of s

ce was glad to show him the strange handbill. The doctor, who had experienced the queer magics that are practised to this day on the

ight do a lot of harm if it fell into the hands of a nervous subject. I should be inclined to punch t

ook which makes London an English city. Together they foun

and Undertaker.' Not much inform

bit unusual, isn't

y called themselves that. Anyhow, it seems, as though that handbill is a genuine pie

myself tomorrow," s

nly polite of you to go. I'll drop in here in the evening to hear

he wouldn't give handbills to people like

I suppose you haven't. Don't let him

ce la

w," he said s

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The Ghost Ship
The Ghost Ship
“Poet and short-story writer Richard Middleton had a brief literary career that ended tragically with his suicide in 1911. But his oft-anthologized short story The Ghost Ship secured a place in literary history as one of the most beloved ghost stories ever written. This collection brings together The Ghost Ship and a number of Middleton's other short pieces of fiction, many of which have supernatural themes.”
1 Chapter 1 No.12 Chapter 2 No.23 Chapter 3 No.34 Chapter 4 No.45 Chapter 5 THE WRITER6 Chapter 6 The Sleepy Publisher7 Chapter 7 The Critic Errant8 Chapter 8 No.89 Chapter 9 No.910 Chapter 10 No.1011 Chapter 11 No.1112 Chapter 12 No.1213 Chapter 13 No.1314 Chapter 14 No.1415 Chapter 15 No.1516 Chapter 16 No.16