She was not at rest, for an unconfessed fear, a spook without name or shape, was plucking at her will-power and her heart, a phantom of which she would rather have died than have said one word.
The spook just spooked it, that's all," he declared convincingly.
Aunty Betz's spook stories made me kinda shaky in the dark, so it's no wonder I jumped when something black ran across the road and stood by the fence as I came along.
Now I never knew what it was to be afraid till that year my old Aunty Betz came to spend a month with us and began to tell her spook stories.
I used to have shivers chasin' each other up and down my back so fast I didn't know how to sit up hardly when she was tellin' them spook stories.
And from what I've seen of him, it wouldn't surprise me a little bit if the fellow before we left here, tried to get us to make some sort of a ghost trap, to grab that wonderful spook in.
Her most familiar spookwas a ghostly fiction named 'John King.
The spook of to-day has acquired a latchkey and asserted his independence.
Numerous writers have busied their pens with the funny spook and now we have ghostly laughter that is mirthful and not horrisonous as in other types.
Stockton has written several delicious drolleries of supernaturalism, as The Transferred Ghost, where the spook of a living man, the irascible uncle of the charming Madeline, terrifies the young suitor who lacks courage to propose.
In The Accusing Spirit a bogus spook is constructed by means of phosphorus, aided by a strong resemblance between two men, to accuse an innocent man of murder.
The eccentric spook in Josephine Daskam Bacon's The Heritage is dressed in brown and sits stolidly and silently on the side of the bed with its back turned.
One might imagine what haunting dyspepsia could result if an ill-tempered spook were devoured against his will.
The up-to-date spook who has a chance to talk things over with William James, and knows the labyrinths of the human mind is much better adapted to inflict psychal terrors than the illiterate specter of the past.
In the same story a young woman's spook pursues one Thomas, almost stamping on his heels, and finally vanishing like a sky-rocket, leaving an odor of brimstone behind.
It remained for the Yankee to evoke the spookwith a sense of humor.
The spookof to-day is of a higher nervous organization than his forbears.
Again, Gondemar has a dagger at her throat with wicked intent, when a spook "lifts up his hollow, sunken countenance and beckons with angry gestures for his departure.
And how many times do you think you've been a spook yourself?
I don't believe in spook mediums and never shall believe in them.
Don't count upon me for any assistance in your spook tests.
The spook vanishes in darkness while the Buddha under the Bodhi tree alone remains visible in a halo of light.
Aw, that spook could get out if he wanted to," muttered the taxi driver.
Real or imaginary, that spook is trying to get out!
The spook glanced at an old-fashioned Dutch clock in the corner of the laboratory.
I may have shown something of what I was thinking in my manner, forSpook looked at me keenly.
Your guys do the international spook stuff, and we do the domestic leg work.
Maybe the Government carries weight with their spook shit, but a bank can't push hard enough to pull a story, if it's true.
He was quick, and his quickness seemed tospook her, because just as he turned the pistol away, it discharged.
I said, "and come back quickly with those oxen, or I promise you that you will die and be a spook yourself.
I believed nothing of the tale of the spook of Karl, but I saw that Footsack believed in it, and was afraid lest he might be thereby prevented from returning.
That man Karl who gave me the diamond, I think he must have died also, at least I saw his spook last night standing over me and shaking his head, and the boys saw it too.
I'd heard of this spook being seen up here, and fool folks layin' it to poor Old Century.
Have you connected his 'highness' with this spook business?
After a few moments the spook disengaged itself from me, and drew back to where it was before, screaming broken exclamations of meaningless rage, and jabbering savagely.
First we try to guard the airlanes and see a spook crash in the sky; then we get lost and have to set down at the very best place--from the way that pilot was handled.
The first one saw something--or he tried to get out of culpability for carelessness in making his crack-up, by saying a spook put him out of control.
But--was that still the shadow of the spook 'plane, that I just saw?
The spook ships we saw come together in the sky were old-fashioned biplanes.
In spite of his earlier assurance that the supposed spook had been only a man made horrible by light and queer clothing, Chick felt a chill strike to his marrow.
Only I advise you to investigate with a little common sense and not too much blind faith in your spook visitors.
Moreover, we can't expect him to subscribe to spook theories, any more than those men Rudolph talked to in New York.
It roused their curiosity, and started the spook ball rolling.
Nor was your spook any of ourselves, for Milly has rounded up the girls, and I've made sure that the doors that shut off the servants' quarters have not been opened.
I've got an exact list of the spook performances from the people at the house.
And, too, he has absolute alibis for all the spook appearances after a certain date.
Well, I think I could more easily believe in a spook than a phantasm.
How could a spook kill two folks at onct,--right out in the open, as you may say?
The latter sounds so unreal, but a good honest Injun spook seems sort of plausible.
Their business was so important that they decided to push on, despite the darkness and the mutterings of an approaching storm, which eventually broke upon them just as they arrived opposite the "Spook House.
All ther same, ef Jack Burk or his spook hedn't warned us, them onery skunks w'u'd hed us in a consarned bad trap.
Ef Jack Burk is dead, then thet wuz his spook come to warn his old pard.
A figure moved, there was no mistake about it, a person, a real live person was surely over by the spook cabinet.
Too glad to obey, Cap led the way, and presently Nora forgot even the "spook cabinet" in her interest over the open costume chest.
