Ghost Story E-book Author: Mark Twain Genre: Literature, Supernatural
Twain, Mark (pen name of Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) American humorist
whose pseudonym was adopted from his days as a Mississippi steamboat pilot,
"mark twain" meaning "two fathoms deep." He introduced colloquial speech
into American writing and was the most popular writer of his time.
Ghost Story (1903)
From Sketches New and Old, Ghost Story is a tale of the
supernatural wherein an unnamed man spends a rainy night in the
locked room of an old, empty building. He awakens fearfully from
his sleep to groaning sounds, muttered sentences, smothered
screams, and the feeling of his bed covers being pulled from his
body.
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