Charles Weathers Bump 2 hr 28 min read

A mermaid in Druid Lake, the goddess of truth, the pink ghost of Franklin Square, a dozen whimsical fantasies drawn from the streets and legends of old Baltimore.

Charles Weathers Bump's 1906 collection gathers genial local-color fantasy stories. Charming, imaginative, of its place. Read it for a warm treasury of turn-of-the-century Baltimore wonders, mermaids, ghosts, and gentle marvels rooted in the parks and squares of a beloved city, by a local newspaperman.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 28 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).