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This anthology includes five tales of the paranormal. The first story tells of writer who is visited by a stranger who relates to him a story that is even stranger, a story of his terrifying experience on an Excursion train. The second story relates to a modern-day man who is plagued by misfortune and finds his tragic redemption in Salem, Massachusetts during the witch trials of sixteen ninety-two. A travel writer is the focus of story number three, the writer is an adventurer who, on Allhallows Eve, takes a ride on his bicycle from York, England to the moors of Yorkshire in search of ghost stories, he unfortunately finds himself in an unusual haunted house and in a peculiar situation. The forth story tells of a Doctor, who, during the Civil War in Louisville, Kentucky, devises a way to obtain cadavers for medical research, which ends in an experience of terror. The last tale recounts a story of a Russian woman whose wealthy father confines her to a monastery on the white sea, where she remains, but after taking up painting, finds her escape in the portrait of a long dead knight of the Crusades.
