The oldfashioned ghoststory was always terrifying and ghastly something thatmade people afraid to go to bed or to look over their shoulders or to enter aroom in... » 

The oldfashioned ghoststory was always terrifying and ghastly something thatmade people afraid to go to bed or to look over their shoulders or to enter aroom in the dark. It dealt with apparitions in a white sheet and clankingchains and dreadful faces that peered out from behind the window curtains in ahaunted chamber. And the more bloodcurdling it was the more keenly peopleenjoyed ituntil they were left alone and then they were apt to wish that theyhad been reading Robinson Crusoe or Alisons History of Europe instead. Nowthe present book embodies an attempt to write a cheerful ghoststory a storyin which the ghostly element is of a friendly and pleasant character and shedsa sense of happiness and sunshine over the entire life of the ghostseer.Whether the author has succeeded in doing so will be for his readers to decide.It is only necessary to add that he has not introduced a single supernormalincident that has not occurred and been authenticated in the recordedexperiences of persons lately or still alive. «