id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt uc2.ark:-13960-t3rv0db8c Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922. Ghosts I Have Met And Some Others. With Illustrations By Newell, Frost, And Richards. 1902 .txt text/plain 37973 2198 85 I had, I may as well confess it, run out of ghosts, and had come down to the writing of tales full of the horror of suggestion, leaving my readers unsatisfied through my failure to describe in detail just what kind of looking thing it was that had so aroused their apprehension ; GHOSTS I HAVE MET and one editor had gone so far as to reject my last ghost-story because I had worked him up to a fearful pitch of excitement, and left him there without any reasonable way out. I have written ghost stories for years now, serious and comic, and I am to-day at the end of my tether compelled to move forward and yet held back. That accounts for it, he said, simply. cache/uc2.ark:-13960-t3rv0db8c.txt txt/uc2.ark:-13960-t3rv0db8c.txt