Though provocatively titled, Camp Fire Sparks is not an incitement to burn books.

"Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read.  Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me.  There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it."  From The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley, 1919.

From Jugend, 1914.

From The Story of a Secret and the Secret of a Story by Ismay Thorn, 1887.

University of Glasgow Alchemists Club, 1935.  Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

Done out of French.

The Next Beyond by Anonymous, 1921.

Yes, the autobiography of Satan is ghost-written.  By John Relly Beard, 1872.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

Note the blurbs from none other than Shakespeare!  From A Commercial Traveller's Reminiscences, 1884.

How to Identify the Stars by Willis Isbister Milham, 1909.

This 1861 book of riddles asks if you give up before even presenting its first conundrum!

Here's some relationship outsourcing: "Hell Upon Earth" Made Heaven, or The Marriage Secrets of a Chicago Contractor as told to Rev. George Washington Savory, 1907.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid by Charles Staniland Wake, 1882.

Here's a crossword puzzle dictionary from Die Bühne, 1925.  Here's a gift idea for puzzle lovers: Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.

Note the orb.  Twenty Years' Experience As a Ghost Hunter by Elliott O'Donnell, 1917.

We love how the presenter of these stories by the ghost of O. Henry handles any skeptical readers.  We've reproduced about half of the preface, but it's all delightful.  From My Tussle With the Devil by O. Henry's Ghost [via a Ouija board], 1918.

The Man of Straw by Edwin William Pugh, 1896.

The Dead Have Never Died by Edward C. Randall, 1917.