My back hair and the pricking of my thumbs warn me that your dearly beloved spooks are combining to put up some sort of a spooking job on us.

I could partly see and partly hear something just ahead, and in a moment found it was our good faithful Cuff, and no frightful spook at all.

Not even Mrs. Renwood?" "Of course she may come back, dear, but you'd hardly expect a respectable lady spook to visit the place with me stopping here.

The horseshoe is still nailed above the door as a protection against the troublesome spook, and the black art is still practised.

"You think unfriendly spooks did it.