Marley's Ghosts

A "friendly" neighborhood ghost?

 A Ghost That Will Not Down - 1919. First published under a collection of stories called Some Real American Ghosts by an anonymous author.

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The instructions were so simple!

The Dead Wife - is an Iroquois legend. I found it in a little book called the Yellow Fairy Book so it doesn't have an official publish date or even an official author. 

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This one is juicy, whahaha! I crack myself up!


Aurelia; or, The Tale of a Ghoulwas first published in 1820 by the name "Vampirismus". I'm glad the named changed because our monster isn't a vampire and is indeed a ghoul. Yes I'm that kind of monster nut!

E.T.A Hoffmann - a real renaissance man! Author, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. 

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Pro tip: if you see bones surrounding a place you are trying to get to- you don't want to get to that place!

Garden of the Gods - a recent publication in a collection of stories called "Strange Lands"

Ed Burkley - a PhD in social psychology and has published other horror stories in Weirdbook, Year's Best Body Horror Anthology and Spooky Isles Book of Horror VI

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Tick Tock!

The Clock first Published in 1928

William Fryer Harvey - an English author (I know big surprise) who is most famous for writing the Beast with Five Fingers considered by many to be a minor masterpiece.

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You are either going to love it or hate! Mwah!

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: was originally a radio program for the BBC in 1978
It has also been a TV show, movie, comic book, and video game.

Douglas Adams: English author and pardon me while I gush but I think one of the wittiest, most enjoyable authors of all time!

Vogon Poetry is terrifying so I thought this little excerpt would be a wonderful way to celebrate episode 42. I hope it scares you and makes you laugh.

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There are 460 calories in a pint of blood, that's a pretty extreme diet program

The Vampyre published in 1819 and was part of the contest that also produced Frankenstein.

John William Polidori - and English writer and Physician who is considered to be the father of the modern Vampire Story. I know Stoker gets all the glory but Polidori did it first!

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A naturally occuring oubliette, hmmm how convenient, I mean terrible, yes terrible!

The Murder Hole was first published in February of 1829 in Blackwoods Edinburgh magazine.

Catherine Sinclair - was most famous for being an evangelical philanthropist and author of childrens tales, guide books and advice columns, she did manage to throw in this little tale of scottish terror!

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A toast to old friends gone by and a promise kept!

The Last Man's Club - first published in The Black Cat periodical in 1905 

Robert M. Clutch is a bit of a mystery and seems to have only published 2 stories. Perhaps his ghost will make a visit and tell us more about himself.

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I love all Japanese ghost stories! They are so much scarier than western european stories!

Mujina first published in 1907

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn - was born in Greece, raised in Dublin and moved to Japan and became a Japanese citizen changing his name to Koizumi Yakumo. He became fluent in the language and this story comes from his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

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