Crossword-Solution: GHOSTDOM 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

For, if we think for a moment, the alleged events of ghostdom--apparitions of all sorts--are precisely identical with the every-night phenomena of dreaming, except for the avowed element of sleep in dreams.

Yet I’m bound to say I have never been nearer ghostdom than now; a day of this moor would mean death to me.” He shook me hurriedly and warmly by the hand, and stared in my face, and stammered, and put an arm about my waist as if I were a girl, and turned me about and led me to a little tree that lifted its barren branches above the moor.

They were _hors concours_, as the French would say: they formed a class by themselves; and, in the expressive slang of to-day, they were “the Limit,” the _ne plus ultra_ of militant ghostdom.