“And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark.”

Canto 1
Phantasmagoria (1869)

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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