# Ghost Stories — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson.

- [The Room in the Tower](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-room-in-the-tower.md): The narrator reflects on the nature of dreams and coincidences before recounting a recurring nightmare from his youth about a redbrick house with a tower. Years later, he visits his friend Jack Stone's home and realizes 
- [The Dust-Cloud](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-dust-cloud.md): The narrator recounts a tense motor journey through a mysterious dust-cloud near Bircham, followed by a sleepless night haunted by thoughts of Guy Elphinstone's fatal motor crash and the ghostly legends surrounding the s
- [Gavon's Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/gavon-s-eve.md): The narrator and Hugh Graham investigate the local superstition of Gavon's Eve, suspecting that Sandy is consulting a witch to learn the fate of Catrine Gordon. They hide in the ruins of a Pict castle and witness a super
- [The Confession of Charles Linkworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-confession-of-charles-linkworth.md): Dr. Teesdale attends condemned murderer Charles Linkworth before his execution, observing his shift from desperate clinging to life to resigned acceptance. After the hanging, the doctor experiences supernatural phenomena
- [At Abdul Ali's Grave](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/at-abdul-ali-s-grave.md): The narrator and Weston witness Achmet exhuming the body of Abdul Ali to use black magic to learn the location of hidden money. Despite the supernatural attempt, the dead man's clenched teeth and fluttering eyelids terri

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- [The Shootings of Achnaleish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-shootings-of-achnaleish.md)
- [How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/how-fear-departed-from-the-long-gallery.md)
- [Caterpillars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/caterpillars.md)
- [The Cat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-cat.md)
- [The Bus-Conductor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-bus-conductor.md)
- [The Man Who Went Too Far](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-man-who-went-too-far.md)
- [Between the Lights](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/between-the-lights.md)
- [Outside the Door](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/outside-the-door.md)
- [The Terror by Night](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-terror-by-night.md)
- [The Other Bed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-other-bed.md)
- [The Thing in the Hall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-thing-in-the-hall.md)
- [The House with the Brickkiln](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-house-with-the-brickkiln.md)
- [And the Dead Spake—](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/and-the-dead-spake.md)
- [The Outcast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-outcast.md)
- [The Horror-Horn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-horror-horn.md)
- [Machaon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/machaon.md)
- [Negotium Perambulans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/negotium-perambulans.md)
- [At the Farmhouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/at-the-farmhouse.md)
- [Inscrutable Decrees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/inscrutable-decrees.md)
- [The Gardener](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-gardener.md)
- [Mr. Tilly's Séance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/mr-tilly-s-s-ance.md)
- [Mrs. Amworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/mrs-amworth.md)
- [In the Tube](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/in-the-tube.md)
- [Roderick's Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/roderick-s-story.md)

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