I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Charles Dickens, in his book, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, describes the character of John Jasper as “an investigator into crime,” who “lacked common sense.” As one of the Sherlock Holmes-like characters in the novel, Jasper has infinite faith in the supernatural. He would have us believe that the ghost of Edwin Drood is haunting his friend's niece because Edwin Drood did not die of natural causes. He did not die of a broken heart after being rejected by his true love, Rosa Bud. It was not a suicide because he could have gone to another part of London to take his life without being haunted by the spirits of all those he had ever rejected or abandoned. It was an accident.

Source: Frankenstein

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