ghosts in A Colonial Tramp
put my candle upon the table, undressed myself hastily, plunged into bed, and blew out the light. How long I lay there shivering, anticipating horror, I can hardly tell ; but at last I must have dropped asleep, for I woke up all at once with a wild start and the instantaneous feeling that it was wi…
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- 2,229
- Year
- 1,891
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- Internet Archive
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- Record ID
- 2229
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- A Colonial Tramp; Hume Nisbet
- Published
- 1891
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghosts
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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put my candle upon the table, undressed myself hastily, plunged into bed, and blew out the light. How long I lay there shivering, anticipating horror, I can hardly tell ; but at last I must have dropped asleep, for I woke up all at once with a wild start and the instantaneous feeling that it was with me. In which part ? In what frame of mind ? Ye gods ! ten ghosts at my bedside, all point- ing fieshless fingers at me, and glaring out of phosphores- cent but sightless eyeholes, would have been warmly wel- comed rather than this silent horror. I lay motionless, listening. It might be on the bed or under the pillow, or amongst my.
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