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Title: Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

Author: Joseph Taylor

Release Date: February 21, 2010 [EBook #31341]

Language: English

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APPARITIONS;

OR,

THE MYSTERY OF

Ghosts, Hobgoblins,

AND

HAUNTED HOUSES,

_DEVELOPED_.

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"Animum rege."

"This Collection of Stories is well chosen, and affords a
fund of amusement that is cheap at the price of five
shillings. By putting such a book as this into the hands of
children, parents will more effectually guard their minds
against weak credulity, than by grave philosophic
admonition." _Monthly Review, October 1814._

Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, Smithfield

[Illustration:

H Corbould _delint_ C Knight _sculpt_ 1814

_The Haunted Beach._]

APPARITIONS;

OR, THE MYSTERY OF
Ghosts,
_Hobgoblins_, _and Haunted Houses_,
DEVELOPED.

BEING A COLLECTION OF
ENTERTAINING STORIES,
_FOUNDED ON FACT_,
And selected for the purpose of

ERADICATING THOSE FEARS, WHICH THE IGNORANT, THE WEAK,
AND THE SUPERSTITIOUS, ARE BUT TOO APT TO ENCOURAGE,
FOR WANT OF PROPERLY EXAMINING INTO THE CAUSES
OF SUCH ABSURD IMPOSITIONS.

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BY JOSEPH TAYLOR.

[Illustration]

_SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED._

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London:
PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.
FINSBURY SQUARE.

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1815.

INTRODUCTION.

The subsequent little Work owes its rise and progress to very trifling
circumstances.

In the early part of my life, having read many books in favour of Ghosts
and Spectral Appearances, the recollection remained so strong in my
mind, that, for _years_ after, the dread of phantoms bore irresistib