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Amelia B. Edwards' 'The Phantom Coach' - The story changes gears from loneliness & isolation to the supernatural & believing what experiments cannot prove, thus James Murray being the 4th passenger. But I suffer from the same fatal flaw of wanting proof. If she could have said something more about the 4th passenger, I would have believed his claims more easily. But I assume that is not the point of the story, right?

Sir Walter Scott's 'the Tapestried Chamber' - I haven't made my mind what my personal feelings are about his sentences. Need to read more of his to do so. But the climax was a bit let down. Can a reader forgive this let down since it was written sometime most likely, before 1829?

"Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" / M.R. James --
The empty house / Algernon Blackwood --
The cigarette case / Oliver Onions

'The world,' he said, 'grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency.' — The Phantom Coach, Amelia B. Edwards

13. The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
14. "Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" by M.R. James