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The Screaming Skulls, and Other Ghost Stories

其他書名	The Collected True Tales and Legends of Elliott O'Donnell
出版	Taplinger Publishing Company, 1969
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8DZ6AAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋British novelist, lecturer and playwright Elliott O'Donnell has been ghost-hunting, and collecting true ghost stories, for half a century. These stories are some of his favorites; some have been passed along in legend, some were told to him by eye-witnesses and some are taken from his own first-hand experiences. All are spine-tingling. There is the grey ghost of the Hudson River Valley, a gigantic nude caricature of a man, with long arms and a small head, who was seen to emanate from a deep pit. Many travelers saw him, but the one he touched was later found in the woods, half insane. There are many haunted houses, inhabited by malevolent spirits who manifest themselves in fantastic and terrifying forms: one in a pillow which almost succeeds in smothering a woman in her bed despite her frantic efforts to throw it off; another as the shadow of a hand which creeps across the walls, settling at last over the head of a sleeping girl who appears to undergo physical pain, exactly as if she were being gradually throttled. And there is the haunted bed in a hotel, wherein a murder had taken place and was re-enacted--the ghostly victim lying beside the petrified traveler as he is done to death. O'Donnell finds that most supernatural phenomena take place during extremes of weather--on very clear nights with a full moon, or during storms or hard rains--and in late August or early September. It is unlikely that anyone who reads this collection will venture forth on such a night without glancing several times over his shoulder.--From dust jacket.