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The Ways of Ghosts: Stories of encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer.
Contents (with beginning time):
Present at a Hanging (02:06)
A Cold Greeting (07:07)
A Wireless Message (11:15)
An Arrest (17:04)
Soldier Folk: Oddities of death and life; from a man who finds that his death is uncertain, through the effects of war on the family, duty that survives death, to the memory of revenge.
Contents (with beginning time):
A Man with Two Lives (00:31)
Three and One are One (06:23)
A Baffled Ambuscade (14:18)
Two Military Executions (19:45)
Some Haunted Houses - Part One: Encounters of the living with the spirits of the dead who have been bound into buildings. An old man revenges himself; a journalist investigates a haunted house; and the quivering vine that tangles the face of a deserted home.
Contents (with beginning time):
The Isle of Pines (00:31)
A Fruitless Assignment (10:39)
A Vine on a House (17:54)
Some Haunted Houses - Part Two: Houses where the living are never seen again, memories of the mortuary live on, and a murdered man wanders through.
Contents (with beginning time):
At Old Man Eckert’s (00:30)
The Spook House (06:36)
The Other Lodgers (16:04)
The Thing at Nolan (21:50)
Mysterious Disappearances: Three short tales of men who have vanished living their ordinary lives, sometimes in full view of witnesses; plus a short, probably fictional, description of a theory to partly explain these events.
Contents (with beginning time):
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (00:32)
An Unfinished Race (05:18)
Charles Ashmore’s Trail (07:50)
Science to the Front (12:23)


