The Water Ghost of Harroby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs was first published in 1894. It tells the story of an ancestral mansion haunted by a water ghost which appears only on Christmas Eve and how the owner of the mansion devises a plan to get rid of it.
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Bangs, J. K. (1894). The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved September 21, 2023, from https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8377
Bangs, J. K., & Barnes, J. (n.d.). John Kendrick Bangs. Wikipedia. Retrieved September 21, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kendrick_Bangs#Works
Merriman, C. (n.d.). John Kendrick Bangs - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. The Literature Network. Retrieved September 21, 2023, from https://www.online-literature.com/john-bangs/