The Ghost-Extinguisher - Burgess Frank Gelett
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This short story must have been the inspiration for the popular
movie "Ghost Busters" (1984). The humorist-author here tells the
tale of a scientist-philosopher who invents devices to capture
ghosts and sets up a business of eradicating them from haunted
houses. If you've seen the movie, you will recognize the
resemblance in this excerpt:"My assistants with the extinguishers
stood firm, and although almost unnerved by the sight, they
summoned their courage, and directed simultaneous streams of
formaldybrom into the struggling mass of fantoms. As soon as my
mind returned, I busied myself with the huge tanks I had prepared
for use as receivers. These were fitted with a mechanism similar to
that employed in portable forges, by which the heavy vapor was
sucked off. Luckily the night was calm, and I was enabled to fill a
dozen cylinders with the precipitated ghosts. The segregation of
individual forms was, of course, impossible, so that men and horses
were mingled in a horrible mixture of fricasseed spirits. I
intended subsequently to empty the soup into a large reservoir and
allow the separate specters to reform according to the laws of
spiritual cohesion."The ghost-capturing business was going well
until one customer refused to pay after his ghosts were safely
incarcerated in canisters. The ghost wrangler decided to get
revenge, but unfortunately for him, things didn't go as he
planned.The story was published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, April,
1905.
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