{"id":647,"date":"2014-09-07T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1527"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:48:49","slug":"1527","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1527","title":{"rendered":"The Best Ghost Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/images\/bestghost.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">What is the fascination we feel for the mystery of the ghost story?<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">Is it of the same nature as the fascination which we feel for the mystery of the detective story?<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family: Impact; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">Of the latter fascination, the late Paul Armstrong used to say that it was because we are all as <\/font><font size=\"4\">full of crime as Sing Sing&mdash;only we don&#39;t dare.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">Thus, may I ask, are we not fascinated by the ghost story because, no matter what may be the <\/font><font size=\"4\">scientific or skeptical bent of our minds, in our inmost souls, secretly perhaps, we are as full of <\/font><font size=\"4\">superstition as an obeah man&mdash;only we don&#39;t let it loose?<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">Who shall say that he is able to fling off lightly the inheritance of countless ages of <\/font><font size=\"4\">superstition? Is there not a streak of superstition in us all? We laugh at the voodoo worshiper&mdash; <\/font><font size=\"4\">then create our own hoodooes, our pet obsessions.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">It has been said that man is incurably religious, that if all religions were blotted out, man <\/font><font size=\"4\">would create a new religion.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">Man is incurably fascinated by the mysterious. If all the ghost stories of the ages were blotted <\/font><font size=\"4\">out, man would invent new ones.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">For, do we not all stand in awe of that which we cannot explain, of that which, if it be not in <\/font><font size=\"4\">our own experience, is certainly recorded in the experience of others, of that of which we know <\/font><font size=\"4\">and can know nothing?<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">Stories include:<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">The Haunted and the Haunters<br \/>\n\tThe Silent Woman<br \/>\n\tThe Man Who Went Too Far<br \/>\n\tThe Rival Ghosts<br \/>\n\tThe Damned Thing<br \/>\n\tSome Real American Ghostsa<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\">And More!<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#cc3300\">This PDF ghost ebook is just $1.00!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the fascination we feel for the mystery of the ghost story? 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