There's so much to love in this first page of
William De Morgan's When Ghost Meets Ghost (1914).
The first chapter is very rightly numbered zero. Shouldn't all ghost stories begin with chapter zero?
The chapter summary is playfully honest about what it amounts to, and it mentions a "somewhere that is now nowhere."
In the first paragraph, there's a withering mention of several young ladies having "lost their individuality."
The third paragraph exposes a great truth: a story can do without accuracy.