Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe is a wonderful and entertaining collection of ghost stories by Catherine Crowe. Excerpt: "But there are no ghosts now," objected Mr. R. "Quite the contrary," said I; "I have no doubt there is nobody in this circle who has not either had some experience of the sort in his own person, or been made a confidant of such experiences by friends whose word on any other subject he would feel it impossible to doubt."
Catherine Ann Crowe, née Stevens, (20 September 1803 in Borough Green, Kent – 14 June 1876 in Folkestone), was an English novelist, story writer and playwright, who also wrote for children. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)