Excerpt from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind Of narratives here collected. For the sake. Of orderly arrangement, the Stories are classed in different grades, as they advance from the normal and familiar to the undeniably startling. At the same time an account Of the current theories Of Apparitions is Offered, in language as free from technicalities as possible. Ac cording to modern opinion every ghost is a hallucination, a false perception, the per ception Of something which is not present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.