The 7th Ghost Story MEGAPACK® by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: ghost, fantasy, horror, weird, tales
ISBN: 9781479424313
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2016-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

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We slipped into the lagoon and tied up in a hurry. The other boats came in close behind us. I counted them again. In fact, I counted them several times. Twelve! Only twelve! Had another boat come in with the fleet, and then somehow disappeared? Because there wasn’t a chance in the world that Cap’n Ludberry and I hadn’t seen and counted thirteen boats outside!

Everybody was talking at once about Anabelle’s light. No laughing now! They had all seen it. Every man in every boat!

“Quick, some of you fellows,” Cap’n Ludberry shouted in the darkness. “Grab flashlights and come with me. We’re going over to the beach and look into this!”

It took some doing, and I’ll admit my own knees were shaking, but anyhow all of us went.

Well, sir, nobody was playing a joke on us! That is, I’m as sure as I ever was of anything in my life that nobody was. We didn’t find anybody on the beach. Or properly speaking, what I mean to say is we didn’t find any living person there!

What we did find was the weather-beaten wreck of a boat. Her paint was peeling. Both masts had been broken off short. The low, forward cabin had its roof blown away. Obviously an old derelict washed ashore in the squall—yet there was something very familiar about the lines of her. Was this the thirteenth boat?

Across the stern we could still make out the name—you guessed it—Kingfisher!

In the open cockpit, half covered by sun-bleached clothing which the birds had torn to ribbons, lay the chalk-white skeleton of Jesse Autrey!

A few yards back on the beach—not buried in the sand, but laying like someone had dropped it there—we found a battered and rusty old lantern. The lantern Anabelle had lost the night of the hurricane!

We buried all that was left of Jesse in a grave beside Anabelle.

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