Scottish Ghost Stories (Classic Reprint) Book

CASE I THE DEATH BOGLE OF THE CROSS ROADS, AND THE INEXTINGUISHABLE CANDLE OF THE OLD WHITE HOUSE, PITLOCHRY Several years ago, bent on revisiting Perthshire, a locality which had great attractions for me as a boy, I answered an advertisement in a popular ladies' weekly. As far as I can recollect, it was somewhat to this effect : " Comfortable home offered to a gentleman (a bachelor) at moderate terms in an elderly Highland lady's house at Pitlochry. Must be a strict teetotaller and non-smoker. F. M., Box so-and-so." The naivete and originality of the advertisement pleased me. The idea of obtaining as a boarder a young man combining such virtues as abstinence from alcohol and tobacco amused me vastly. And then a bachelor, too ! Did she mean to make love to him herself ? The sly 3Table of Contents CONTENTS; CASK PAGE; I THE DEATH BOGLE OF THE CROSS ROADS, AND THE INEXTINGUISHABLE CANDLE OF THE OLD WHITE HOUSE, PITLOCHRY I; II THE TOP ATTIC IN PRINGLE'S MANSION, EDINBURGH 25; III THE BOUNDING FIGURE OF "-HOUSE,"; NEAR BUCKINGHAM TERRACE, EDINBURGH 41; IV JANE OF GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH 55; V THE SALLOW-FACED WOMAN OF NO -FORREST; ROAD, EDINBURGH 69; VI THE PHANTOM REGIMENT OF KILLIECRANKIE 91; VII " PEARLIN' JEAN " OF ALLANBANK IO5; 7III THE DRUMMER OF CORTACHY 117; IX THE ROOM BEYOND AN ACCOUNT OF THE; HAUNTINGS OF HENNERSLEY, NEAR AYR 135; X "- HOUSE," NEAR BLYTHSWOOD SQUARE,; GLASGOW THE HAUNTED BATH -159; XI THE CHOKING GHOST OF "- HOUSE," NEAR; SANDYFORD PLACE, GLASGOW -173; XII THE GREY PIPER AND THE HEAVY COACH OF; DONALDGOWERIE HOUSE, PERTH 189; XIII THE FLOATING HEAD OF THE BENRACHETT; INN, NEAR THE PERTH ROAD, DUNDEE 211; 284154; vi; CONTENTS; CASE ? PACE; XIV THE HAUNTINGS OF "- HOUSE," IN THE; NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD, ABERDEEN 225; XV THE WHITE LADY OF ROWNAM AVENUE, NEAR; STIRLING 237; XVI THE GHOST OF THE HINDOO CHILD, OR THE HAUNTINGS OF THE WHITE DOVE HOTEL, NEAR ST SWITHIN'S SRead More