WF H848 .M66g 1929
The Moor Ghost
First published in Weird Tales, September 1929 (vol. 14, no. 3). Poem.
United States public domain. Held in the Reading Room of The Weird Library. Published by Weird Tales.
They haled him to the crossroads
As day was at its close;
They hung him to the gallows
And left him for the crows.
His hands in life were bloody,
His ghost will not be still;
He haunts the naked moorlands
About the gibbet hill.
And oft a lonely traveler
Is found upon the fen
Whose dead eyes hold a horror
Beyond the world of men.
The villagers then whisper,
With accents grim and dour:
"This man has met at midnight
The phantom of the moor."