A thousand and one ghost

Is ghosts inhabited by the road leading to the grave? Are angels standing along the road leading to heaven? And what is a person? Something lonely, lost in the void, not connected with the sky during life and leaving for nothing after death? Or is it a visible, material link between two intangible and invisible worlds? Is there something in us to live before us? Is there something in us that is destined to survive us?
These and other, no less “Shakespearean” issues tried to comprehend the great French romantic and a tireless traveler, who was interested in the mysterious legends and amazing events of the past all his life.
In the next volume of illustrated collected works of Alexander Dumas, his famous collection of terrible stories “A Thousand and One Ghosts” includes