"No, I assured the landlady. The Ghost was not permanent. I was merely watching it for a friend."

"On subsequent occasions, its changes of costume were so rapid and so eccentric that I could only explain them on the supposition that somewhere in space there exists a supernatural theatrical wardrobe, and that Barnjum's ghost had the run of it."

A reading of F.Anstey's March, 1879 story called "Barnjum's Wraith" as published in The Temple Bar. A tongue-in-cheek Victorian ghost story in which a self-described gentleman of innate refinement" is haunted by the wraith of his large, boorish red-headed rival.

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