The Lock And Key Library Classic Mystery And Detective Stories — Multiple Authors

Rudyard Kipling_My Own True Ghost Story_ As I came through the Desert thus it was-- As I came through the Desert. _The City of Dreadful Night._Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and playsand shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives inbuilding up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about thereal insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But he willinsist upon treating his ghosts--he has published half a workshopful ofthem--with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and, in somecases, flirt outrageously, with the phantoms. You may treat anything, froma Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with levity; but you must behavereverently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one.