The Water Ghost and Others: A Ghost Stories, Fiction and Literature, Short Story Collection Classic By John Kendrick Bangs! AAA+++

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The ghost appeared as usual in the room--that is, it was supposed she did, for the hangings were dripping wet the next morning, and in the parlor below the haunted room a great damp spot appeared on the ceiling. Finding no one there, she immediately set out to learn the reason why, and she chose none other to haunt than the owner of the Harrowby himself. She found him in his own cosey room drinking whiskey--whiskey undiluted--and felicitating himself upon having foiled her ghostship...