The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play

About this book

The Ghost Breaker is a 1909 play by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. It is a mixed genre work in four acts, labelled a "melodramatic farce" by its authors. There are four settings and seventeen characters. The story concerns a Spanish princess who helps a Kentucky gentleman escape from the law in Manhattan, and he in turn helps rid her castle of a spirit. The action of the play takes place on two separate days a week apart.