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Ghost stories - Early works to 1800

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    The devil upon two sticks in England being a continuation of Le diable boiteux of Le Sage.

    William Combe | Date: 1791
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    The history of apparitions , ghosts, spirits or spectres; consisting of variety of remarkable stories of apparitions, attested by people of undoubted veracity. By a clergyman. Containing among others, an account of an apparition, communicated by Sir Charles Lee to the Lord Bishop of Gloucester. Another from the learned Dr. Isaac Walton. Also the apparition of Sir George Villiers, relating to the murder of the Duke of Buckingham, extracted from Lord Clarendon's History.

    Clergyman | Date: 1762

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