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“To figure out how to proceed, I took an inventory of some literary phantoms.”
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“Norton and Company Bonnie Jo Campbell October 13, 2026 As a kid, I got easily spooked.”
“We may ask whether the ghost is “real” or a figment of Hamlet’s imagination.”
“Naturally, I became a fiction writer, devoted to telling plausible stories about plausible characters in plausible situations.”
“I love the twist, that it is sometimes the living who are haunting the dead.”
“Yes, I called it a Michigan Christmas Carol, but still I resisted indulging any wraiths!”
“And Poe, like all the great spooky writers, never explains the thumping but allows the mystery to linger!”
“She has come back to take revenge on the one who loved her most, even luring Sethe’s lover into sexual betrayal!”
“But not every story benefits from such truth-telling.”
“Banquo doesn’t have to do or say a thing to trigger Macbeth’s disintegration.”
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“Therein, a young woman sits on her dead lover’s grave for a year, begging to see him again.”
“Sister Whitby’s memories are muddled, and Daddy is dead.”
“This ghost is an unsophisticated agent of revenge who has not been made wiser by death, only more powerful.”
“But I hit a snag: Though I created this auspicious event, even I didn’t know what happened.”
“Yes, redemption was on the menu.”
“We would not trust mixed-up creepers like these to guide us the way we trust Marley!”