December 1894 "If you pick up one of the old Christmas numbers you will always find a good sprinkling of ghost stories among the contents, and even to day, the tradition has not died out though there is less room in our busy world of spooks and amusements for them""The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0854, Page …
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"At such a time of the year, and in such delightful relations with nature, if one has not actually a close sympathetic companionship with some other living creature, one is apt to create something of the kind out of one's own imagination..." It happened only five summers ago. I had had a hard winter and …
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Villa Nova, Blackrock. Garden View. (The home of Lady Gilbert (Rosa Mulholland and John Gilbert) Image from The Life of John Gilbert, Internet Archive Flickr Commons Born in Belfast in 1841, Rosa Mulholland (pseudonym Ruth Murray) was a prolific writer of poetry and fiction, for both adults and children. She published her first novel, Dunmara, …
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Ghostly Fictions 
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