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  • I would suggest doing a text search for "ghost stories" in the Project Gutenberg collection at http://www.gutenberg.org/. Project Gutenberg is a volunteer organization which takes print books currently in the public domain (old books and modern books whose authors have released them into the public domain) and converts them into electronic plain-text format (and other formats, but a plain-text version is always created). Project Gutenberg is very thorough in confirming the public-domain status of all books they convert into plain-text "EBook" format, so any ghost stories you find in a title created by Project Gutenberg are guaranteed to be in the public domain and not subject to copyright (meaning no royalties and no messy copyright lawsuits). Project Gutenberg does not attach any restrictions on use of their converted works, other than to ask that you remove their information from any plain-text Ebook if you are using it in your own publication.

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