Merry Tales Book

I was looking for short stories at my uni library, because I'm really busy and don't have alot of time to commit to a novel! I randomly happened upon this one, was intrigued, read the first paragraph, and died. This anthology is about ghosts, but when I read it I find alot of strength from it-- for me, it's really about not letting life's challenges defeat you. The first story is about how the author has met many ghosts and how they have physically affected him (i.e, the hair stands up on the back of his neck,) but he is strong enough not to let them mentally control them-- for me,that means, someone can hurt me temporarily or physically but they can never do so permanently. So, I took alot of meaning from it!

Besides this, which I'm not sure every reader would discover, these stories are wonderful! They are late 1800s ghost stories so they are rather vanilla, but frightfully delicous. In each one the author makes fun of himself and his critics. Very light hearted and humerous, but I won't lie and say I wasn't scared at times.

The only down side to this book was of course racism and sexism, which is to be expected in that time period. It is particularly offensive to blacks, Chinese, and women.