Richard Barham Middleton was an English poet and author, who is best remembered for his short ghost stories, in particular "The Ghost Ship.""The Day Before Yesterday" a collection of short stories and essays as an adult's reminiscences of the imaginative world of childhood in the vein of Kenneth Grahame's "Golden Age." These pieces exist as posthumous sketches of a promising young writer, and poet, and were collected from English magazines from over a hundred years ago.