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1. Anat. A structure in the animal body consisting of a bundle of minute fibres or tubes, as nerves, blood-vessels, or lymphatics, closely interwoven and intercommunicating; a network of fibres or vessels.

2. Any intertwined or interwoven mass; a complex body, collection, or set of things; a web, network, complication.

03. Veterans, 4 stars. Two very different men fight in the same war, one saves the other's life because it feels right. Later, the rescued one makes a nuisance of himself.
04. The Icon, 4 stars. Aimless rich manchild loses his temper and his girlfriend, sulks around family vacation homes.
05. No Love Lost, 4 stars. Maimed soldier/family return to gutted out house, scrape and scavenge to keep body and soul together.

01. Correspondent, 4 stars. Former-mistress-turned-second-wife of popular war reporter is frustrated by his little superstitions, feels unable to disregard his infidelities now that they have a growing family.
02. Fertility, 3 stars. Soldier unknowingly knocks a girl up just before shipping out, the world turns against her until he comes back to clean up the mess.

19. Lilian Quiller Couch - The Devil's Own, 4 stars. Teenager is haunted by the ghost of a beggar child on his daily journey home, lovesick laundry girl bluffs her way through an exorcism.
20. Anonymous - A Christmas Ghost Story, 2 stars. Inconstant old rich man is visited by a ghost, but not given the chance to redeem the past. Seems like a waste of ectoplasm just to fund a town Christmas party.

Wiki: "She therefore considered how best to dispose of a Lydian
girl, called Aráchne, who claimed (so she’d heard) to equal herself
in working with wool."

Wiki: "... but there be still some persons living who stride over trifles, and level all difficulties with the besom of disregard; and John and Jane Nottage were of this class."

17. Andrew Haggard - A Spirit Bride, 2 stars. Man marries a complete stranger several days after meeting her at a séance, forgets he once passionately loved a ghost.
18. W.L. Blackley - The Haunted Oven, 5 stars. Country couple buy a fancy estate, discover messages from beyond the grave baked into their bread.

14. Mrs Henry Wood - The Ghost of the Hollow Field, 2 stars. Stubborn woman begrudgingly agrees to attend her nephew's wedding, sees her sister on the way to the church.
15. Alice Mary Vance - The Wicked Editor's Christmas Dream, 2 stars. Inoffensive man has an ineffective Scrooge-style dream.
16. Anonymous - The Barber's Ghost, 3 stars. Guest agrees to stay in a haunted room, scares away some noisy gamblers.

Word: "Wherever you go on your glorious progress,
the shouts of the young attend you, the screams of women, the banging
of tambourines, the skirling of pipes and the clashing of cymbals."

1. A shrill cry, a shriek; shrill talk.

2. A shrill sound, esp. that characteristic of the bagpipe.

11. Anonymous - Old Simons' Ghost, 2 stars. Old miser dies, his live-in clerk tries to discover the source of his wealth.
12. J.H. Hollingsworth - Miriam's Ghost, 3 stars. Man spends Christmas at a family friend's estate, ghost of his ancestor leads him to treasure and skeletons.
13. Lucy Farmer - The Vicar's Ghost, 3 stars. Ghost's appearance is an omen of bad news, thieves rob the church and batter the inhabitants.

Wiki: "537–8 watchful geese … Capitol: A reference to the famous occasion about 390 BC when the Gauls made a night attack on Rome and the city was saved when the geese in Juno’s temple gave the alarm."

08. L.F. Austin - The Ghost's 'Double', 2 stars. Respectable ghost is disgusted by her doppelganger's love of pranks.
09. E.H. Rebton - The Haunted Manor, 2 stars. Short poem about the source of noises in a "haunted" house.
10. J.E. Thomas - The Nameless Village, 3 stars. Man takes a tour of a ghost village/Manor House, it disappears.

Wiki: "Content to enjoy the food that required no painful producing,
men simply gathered arbutus fruit and mountain strawberries,  cornel cherries and blackberries plucked from the prickly bramble,
acorns too which they found at the foot of the spreading oak tree."

05. Anonymous - Haunted Ashchurch, 2 stars. Murdered woman's ghost points to the location of her body, gets buried with her killer for her troubles.
06. Anonymous - The Haunted Tree, 2 stars. Spooky happenings at a tree continue until someone asks the ghost what his problem is.
07. Hugh Conway - A Dead Man's Face, 3 stars. Youngest brother makes a hasty engagement to a lovely widow, suffers visions in her presence.

03. G.B. Burgin - Sir Hugo's Prayer, 3 stars. Married ghosts are bored with haunting their ancestral castle, intercede on behalf of true love after witnessing a contest for a pretty girl's hand.
04. Mrs J.H. Riddell - Walnut-Tree House, 5 stars. Man inherits a house haunted by a lonely little boy who never stops searching for something, investigates the circumstances of his sad life and death.

Wiki: "The boasted “tour of the world” was talked about, disputed, argued with as much warmth as if the subject were another Alabama claim."

01. Frederick Manley - The Ghost of the Cross-Roads, 3 stars. Man gets lost in a snow storm, finds nothing odd about playing cards for money in the midst of a blizzard with his rescuer.
02. Lillie Harris - 19, Great Hanover Street, 4 stars. Sensible young doctor takes a haunted property for his practice, all goes well until he shelters a beautiful woman he finds freezing in the garden one (fateful) night.

13. James Grant - The Veiled Portrait, 3 stars. Faithless husband becomes a bigamist in India, loses everything in a revolt.
14. Anonymous - The Ghost Chamber, 2 stars. Conniving younger brother successfully turns father against the foolhardy eldest son, inherits the lot.
15. Anonymous - Squire Orton's Ghost, 3 stars. Nephew chafes under rich uncle's control, is determined to marry a pretty gold digger at any cost.

10. Grant Allen - Wolverden Tower, 3 stars. Young lady makes fast friends with two mysterious girls, is easily persuaded to jump off tower.
11. Eliza Lynn Linton - Christmas Eve in Beach House, 3 stars. Newlyweds move to secluded house in Cornwall, wife dreams of her missing father's murder.
12. Isabella F. Romer - The Necromancer, 3 stars. Charlatan fakes up a ghostly visitation, faints when he sees the real thing.

07. W.W. Fenn - The Steel Mirror: A Christmas Dream, 3 stars. Selfish friends insist man travel to attend their Christmas party despite knowing his wife is seriously ill.
08. Anonymous - White Satin, 3 stars. Pretty wife poses as ancestral ghost to save her family from religious persecution.
09. Alfred Crowquill - Nicodemus, 3 stars. Boozehound monk helps himself to elderly parishioner's wealth, gets haunted.

04. Anonymous - The Weird Violin, 3 stars. Musician buys a demonic looking violin for his big performance.
05. E. Morant Cox - Walsham Grange, 3 stars. Clever navy man susses out the wailing "ghosts" haunting his brother's country house.
06. Coulson Kernahan - Haunted!, 2 stars. Stupid man kills his rival, stuffs his body down a chasm, later gets lost on a cave tour.

01. Albert Smith - A Real Country Ghost Story, 3 stars. Haughty girl toys with men, rejects one she actually likes, dies of TB.
02. Emily Arnold - The Ghost of the Treasure-Chamber, 3 stars. Formerly wealthy family is saved by cousin's visions of treasure.
03. Theo Gift - Number Two, Melrose Square, 3 stars. Scholarly woman rents a cheap house near the museum, sees sinister glimpses of the previous tenants.

Wiki: "It is the old story, Ruby; we must cry Ichabod, the glory has departed."

Wiki: "It seems to me unlikely — I will not say impossible, since the ramifications of the Stavisky business I will believe anything — unlikely that they are mixed up in this business."

05. Be My Guest, 4 stars. Young woman doubts her current boyfriend is serious, has a new whirlwind romance with an older man after encountering a strange little boy asking for help.

03. Somewhere Else, 5 stars. Married travel agents finally find the time to travel after winning an all expenses paid trip, have similar nightmares on the way there.
04. Sis and Bud, 4 stars. Brother and sister take the news of their unrelated adoptions very differently, the older brother is hell-bent on revenge vs. the sister's dreamy romantic fantasies.

01. Last Act: The Madhouse, 4 stars. Teenage romance leads to an unexpected pregnancy, boy's mother interferes with their plans to marry.
02. The Archaeologist's Daughter, 4 stars. Motherless daughter has a free and happy life idolizing and working with her father, is somewhat lost after his death in a distant country.