Ghost Stories was a U.S. pulp magazine that published 64 issues between 1926 and 1932. It was one of the earliest competitors to Weird Tales, the first magazine to specialize in the fantasy and occult fiction genre. Ghost Stories was a companion magazine to True Story and True Detective Stories, and focused almost entirely on stories about ghosts, many of which were written by staff writers but presented under pseudonyms as true confessions. These were often accompanied by faked photographs to make the stories appear more believable. Ghost Stories also ran original and reprinted contributions, including works by Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, and Frank Belknap Long. Among the reprints were Agatha Christie's "The Last Seance" (under the title "The Woman Who Stole a Ghost"), several stories by H. G. Wells, and Charles Dickens's "The Signal-Man". The magazine was initially successful, but had begun to lose readers by 1930, and ceased publication at the start of 1932.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1870:

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

1930:

The Communist Party of Indochina, the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina merged to form the Communist Party of Vietnam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Vietnam

2010:

A cast bronze sculpture, L'Homme qui marche I, by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Homme_qui_marche_I

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

flare: 1. (transitive) To cause to burn. 2. (transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame. 3. (transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape. 4. (transitive, intransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing. 5. (intransitive) To blaze brightly. 6. (intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light. 7. (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy. 8. (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify. 9. (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger. 10. (intransitive, obsolete) To be exposed to too much light. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flare

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The human soul has need of consented obedience and of liberty. Consented obedience is what one concedes to an authority because one judges it to be legitimate. It is not possible in relation to a political power established by conquest or coup d'etat nor to an economic power based upon money. Liberty is the power of choice within the latitude left between the direct constraint of natural forces and the authority accepted as legitimate. The latitude should be sufficiently wide for liberty to be more than a fiction, but it should include only what is innocent and should never be wide enough to permit certain kinds of crime.   --Simone Weil https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil