The Spook Ballads

The Spook Ballads is a collection of humorous "ghost poetry" stories in verse, written by William Theodore Parkes. Excerpt: "O blessed chance!" the Ghost exclaimed, "Thou art the only one Of all men else, who spoke me so, they always turn and run! Thou art the first, that I have seen drop sympathetic tears, Responsive to my moanings, aye for full one hundred years! And so I feel that I can speak in unreserving tone, And give thee cause for this alack! my chronic nightly groan!"