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Download or read book The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in the March 1902 edition of the Strand Magazine and subsequently reprinted in Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903). Clayton, the story's main protagonist, had encountered a ghost, and falls down dead in front of a group of skeptical friends as he re-enacts the masonic passes he had seen the ghost use to disappear. The narrator is one a group of friends sitting round a blazing fire in the Mermaid Club one Saturday evening. One of their numbers, Clayton, tells them about the ghost he encountered in the club the previous evening: "Right off I knew him for a ghost. He was transparent and whitish". The ghost attempts to frighten Clayton, but emboldened by the bottle of champagne and the several whiskies he had drunk with his dinner he is distinctly unimpressed, and challenges the ghost: "You don't belong in this place ... Are you a member?" Crestfallen, the ghost admits that he had only haunted the club for a "lark", encouraged by his ghostly friends, but he has forgotten the complicated series of gestures and passes with his hands that would allow him to vanish and return to his own world. Feeling sorry for the ghost, Clayton helps the apparition to rehearse the required moves by performing them himself so that the ghost might more easily see what error he is making. Eventually the ghost spots the problem and asks Clayton to turn his back while he performs the correct passes, after which he disappears. At the end of his account Clayton re-enacts the series of passes he learned from the ghost, but with no effect. One of the friends listening to his story is a Freemason, and recognizing some of the gesticulations spots the same error that the ghost had seen. Clayton performs the now correct passes, ending with his arms outstretched, swaying slightly. Then he falls forward, dead. Clayton had, indeed, passed into the world that lies so near to and so far from our own, and he had gone thither by the only road that mortal man may take. But whether he did indeed pass there by that poor ghost's incantation, or whether he was stricken suddenly by apoplexy in the midst of an idle tale - as the coroner's jury would have us believe - is no matter for my judging.

Download or read book Twelve Stories and a Dream written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Stories and a Dream -- "A Dream of Armageddon": "That book," he repeated, pointing a lean finger, "is about dreams. Dreams tell you nothing." I did not catch his meaning for a second. "They don't know," he added. I looked a little more attentively at his face. "There are dreams," he said, "and dreams." Also includes "Filmer," "The Magic Shop," "The Valley of Spiders," "The Truth about Pyecraft," "Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland," "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost," "Jimmy Goggles the God," "The New Accelerator," "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation," "The Stolen Body," "Mr. Brisher's Treasure," and "Miss Winchelsea's Heart.

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Download or read book Twelve Stories and a Dream The original 1903 edition of 13 fantasy and science fiction short stories written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Twelve Stories and a Dream (The original 1903 edition of 13 fantasy and science fiction short stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: 1. Filmer 2. The Magic Shop 3. The Valley of Spiders 4. The Truth About Pyecraft 5. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland 6. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost 7. Jimmy Goggles the God 8. The New Accelerator 9. Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation 10. The Stolen Body 11. Mr. Brisher's Treasure 12. Miss Winchelsea's Heart 13. A Dream of Armageddon.

Download or read book Twelve Stories and a Dream written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents Filmer The Magic Shop The Valley of Spiders The Truth about Pyecraft Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost Jimmy Goggles the God The New Accelerator Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation The Stolen Body Mr. Brisher's Treasure Miss Winchelsea's Heart A Dream of Armageddon H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

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Download or read book The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost Illustrated written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Of The Inexperienced Ghost ( The Inexperienced Ghost) is, on its face, merely a humourous ghost story. But I get the sense that there's quite a bit of satire going on in it. It may be doing to the straight-up ghost story (in a far more lighthearted way) what a gothic tale for a stormy night: a man called Meredith converts a room in his house into a cluttered and untidy study, and one day asks a visiting friend if he can see anything strange on the ceiling."Don't you see it?" he said."See what?""The - thing. The woman."I shook my head and looked at him."All right then," he said abruptly. "Don't see it!"This is the beginning of a newly discovered HG Wells ghost story, called The Haunted Ceiling, a macabre tale found in an archive that Wells scholars say they have never seen before.The story was discovered when Andrew Gulli, editor of the Strand, heard that the University of Illinois held a substantial archive of Wells's works. He promptly hired an assistant to photocopy hundreds of manuscripts and sorted through them to see if he could find something new."Initially, from the titles of the manuscripts, I thought I happened upon lots of unpublished works, but those thousands of pages were narrowed down to this delightful story," Gulli told the Guardian.He called it "a vintage Wells story - you have a supernatural event, characters with two schools of thought on the event, [and] the literary type versus the scientist. This reminds me of his story The Red Room, but we have a more of a twist with The Haunted Ceiling."Wells scholars have dated the story to the mid-1890s, when the author was about 30. This would mean that he wrote The Haunted Ceiling around the same time he produced his more famous ghost tale, The Red Room, which depicts a sceptic's terrifying night attempting to discredit claims a castle room is haunted.While most famous for science fiction books like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, Wells frequently wrote gothic tales about doubters confronted with supernatural events, often leading to ambiguous and haunting endings. Stories like The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost, in which a man relates an occult encounter, then becomes more agitated until he collapses and dies. The narrator observes: "Whether he did indeed pass there by that poor ghost's incantation, or whether he was stricken suddenly by apoplexy in the midst of an idle tale - as the coroner's jury would have us believe - is no matter for my judging."

Download or read book The Story of Inexperienced Ghost Annotated written by H. G. Wells and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing ..amazing the narrator was beyond words amazing. I I was given this copy for free in exchange for honest reviews.. I have never herd this story done like this! I just fell in love all over again with this story!

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Download or read book The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scene amidst which Clayton told his last story comes back very vividly to my mind. There he sat, for the greater part of the time, in the corner of the authentic settle by the spacious open fire, and Sanderson sat beside him smoking the Broseley clay that bore his name. There was Evans, and that marvel among actors, Wish, who is also a modest man. We had all come down to the Mermaid Club that Saturday morning, except Clayton, who had slept there overnight--which indeed gave him the opening of his story. We had golfed until golfing was invisible; we had dined, and we were in that mood of tranquil kindliness when men will suffer a story. When Clayton began to tell one, we naturally supposed he was lying. It may be that indeed he was lying--of that the reader will speedily be able to judge as well as I. He began, it is true, with an air of matter-of-fact anecdote, but that we thought was only the incurable artifice of the man."I say!" he remarked, after a long consideration of the upward rain of sparks from the log that Sanderson had thumped, "you know I was alone here last night?""Except for the domestics," said Wish."Who sleep in the other wing," said Clayton. "Yes. Well--" He pulled at his cigar for some little time as though he still hesitated about his confidence. Then he said, quite quietly, "I caught a ghost!"

Download or read book Collected Short Stories written by H. G. Wells and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. Only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".

Download or read book Collected Works written by H. G. Wells and published by AtheneMedia-Verlag. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 9825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection - without images and optimized in file size for quick access - contains: A Modern Utopia A Short History of the World An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Anticipations / Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought Bealby; A Holiday Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump / Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times Certain Personal Matters First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" God, the Invisible King In the Days of the Comet In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace Joan and Peter: The story of an education Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul Little Wars (a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books) Love and Mr. Lewisham Mankind in the Making Marriage Mr. Britling Sees It Through Russia in the Shadows Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences Socialism and the family Tales of Space and Time Text Book of Biology, Vertebrata The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The Discovery of the Future The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The Future in America: A Search After Realities The History of Mr. Polly The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance The Island of Doctor Moreau The New Machiavelli The New Teaching of History / With a reply to some recent criticisms of The Outline of History The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind The Plattner Story, and Others The Red Room The Research Magnificent The Salvaging Of Civilization The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Sleeper Awakes / A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes The Soul of a Bishop The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The Time Machine The Undying Fire: A contemporary novel The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The War That Will End War The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Wonderful Visit The World Set Free This Misery of Boots Tono-Bungay Twelve Stories and a Dream War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War Washington and the Riddle of Peace What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War When the Sleeper Wakes Herbert George Wells wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback - utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering...

Download or read book Twelve Stories and a Dream written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Stories and a Dream -- "A Dream of Armageddon": "That book," he repeated, pointing a lean finger, "is about dreams. Dreams tell you nothing." I did not catch his meaning for a second. "They don't know," he added. I looked a little more attentively at his face. "There are dreams," he said, "and dreams." Also includes "Filmer," "The Magic Shop," "The Valley of Spiders," "The Truth about Pyecraft," "Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland," "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost," "Jimmy Goggles the God," "The New Accelerator," "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation," "The Stolen Body," "Mr. Brisher's Treasure," and "Miss Winchelsea's Heart.

Download or read book The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost Annotated written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scene amidst which Clayton told his last story comes back very vividly to my mind. There he sat, for the greater part of the time, in the corner of the authentic settle by the spacious open fire, and Sanderson sat beside him smoking the Broseley clay that bore his name. There was Evans, and that marvel among actors, Wish, who is also a modest man. We had all come down to the Mermaid Club that Saturday morning, except Clayton, who had slept there overnight-which indeed gave him the opening of his story. We had golfed until golfing was invisible; we had dined, and we were in that mood of tranquil kindliness when men will suffer a story. When Clayton began to tell one, we naturally supposed he was lying. It may be that indeed he was lying-of that the reader will speedily be able to judge as well as I. He began, it is true, with an air of matter-of-fact anecdote, but that we thought was only the incurable artifice of the man.