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    The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain
    The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain
    The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain
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    The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain

    By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain
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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    Edward Bulwer-Lytton, engl. Romanschriftsteller und Politiker, ist bekannt geworden durch seine populären historischen/metaphysischen und unvergleichlichen Romane wie „Zanoni“, „Rienzi“, „Die letzten Tage von Pompeji“ und „Das kommende Geschlecht“. Ihm wird die Mitgliedschaft in der sagenumwobenen Gemeinschaft der Rosenkreuzer nachgesagt. 1852 wurde er zum Kolonialminister von Großbritannien ernannt.

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      The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

      Project Gutenberg's Haunted and the Haunters, by Edward Bulwer Lytton

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Haunted and the Haunters

      Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton

      Release Date: November 28, 2004 [EBook #14195]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS ***

      Produced by Robert Ciconnetti, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      A STRANGE STORY.

      TO WHICH IS ADDED,

      THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS.

      BY

      EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON.)

      To doubt and to be astonished is to recognize our ignorance. Hence it is that the lover of wisdom is in a certain sort a lover of mythi [Greek: phylomythos pôs], for the subject of mythi is the astonishing and marvellous.—SIR W. HAMILTON (after Aristotle), Lectures on Metaphysics, vol. i. p. 78.

      IN TWO VOLUMES.

      VOL. II.

      BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1897.

      THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS;

      OR, THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN.

      * * * * *

      A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London.

      Really haunted,—and by what?—ghosts?

      Well, I can't answer that question; all I know is this: six weeks ago my wife and I were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet street, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, 'Apartments, Furnished.' The situation suited us; we entered the house, liked the rooms, engaged them by the week,—and left them the third day. No power on earth could have reconciled my wife to stay longer; and I don't wonder at it.

      What did you see?

      Excuse me; I have no desire to be ridiculed as a superstitious dreamer,—nor, on the other hand, could I ask you to accept on my affirmation what you would hold to be incredible without the evidence of your own senses. Let me only say this, it was not so much what we saw or heard (in which you might fairly suppose that we were the dupes of our own excited fancy, or the victims of imposture in others) that drove us away, as it was an undefinable terror which seized both of us whenever we passed by the door of a certain unfurnished room, in which we neither saw nor heard anything. And the strangest marvel of all was, that for once in my life I agreed with my wife, silly woman though she be,—and allowed, after the third night, that it was impossible to stay a fourth in that house. Accordingly, on the fourth morning I summoned the woman who kept the house and attended on us, and told her that the rooms did not quite suit us, and we would not stay out our week. She said dryly, I know why; you have stayed longer than any other lodger. Few ever stayed a second night; none before you a third. But I take it they have been very kind to you.

      "'They,—who?' I asked, affecting to smile.

      'Why, they who haunt the house, whoever they are. I don't mind them. I remember them many years ago, when I lived in this house, not as a servant; but I know they will be the death of me some day. I don't care,—I'm old, and must die soon anyhow; and then I shall be with them, and in this house still.' The woman spoke with so dreary a calmness that really it was a sort of awe that prevented my conversing with her further. I paid for my week, and too happy were my wife and I to get off so cheaply.

      You excite my curiosity, said I; nothing I should like better than to sleep in a haunted house. Pray give me the address of the one which you left so ignominiously.

      My friend gave me the address; and when we parted, I walked straight towards the house

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