The Devil's Dictionary: Spooker

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
SOUL
STORY

SPOOKER

-n.

A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.

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