Earl H. Reed 47 min read

A ghost never appears before more than one person at a time, which is why, last Christmas Eve, the narrator alone held a long interview with the very real ghost in his friend's Michigan water tower.

Earl H. Reed's 1921 book is a genial, whimsical ghost-story fantasy. Charming, wry, gently atmospheric. Read it for a warm and humorous Christmas-eve tale of an amiable spectre, told with a light touch by an author and artist of the Indiana dunes country.

In its time

Published in 1921, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

47 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).