“The following events occurred on a small island of isolated position in a large Canadian lake, to whose cool waters the inhabitants of Montreal and Toronto flee for rest and recreation in the hot months. It is only to be regretted that events of such peculiar interest to the genuine student of the psychical should be entirely uncorroborated. Such unfortunately, however, is the case.”
—Algernon Blackwood, “A Haunted Island”
“A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.”
—J. M. Barrie, The Little Minister
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of old loves are the worst.”
—Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 3