![]() Kate and William hit the pub, pose for selfies and joke they are looking forward to downing cocktails after Charles' Coronation There are spooky stories in which objects enact the will of their dead owners (vengeful rapiers, melancholy type- writers) tales of phantoms and apparitions a gung-ho treasure hunt that ends in horror and, most fitting for Halloween, a seance story, where an ordinary home is submerged in impenetrable darkness, ‘as black oil would fill a tank’, while hell is unleashed in the hallway. Haunted houses, demon dogs and unwitting people possessed unaccountably by restless spirits are creepily described in delightfully old-fashioned prose, the thrum of fear all the more intense for being delivered in the cool, patrician tones of received pronunciation. Mike Ashley has delved into the archives of the British Library’s collection of magazines and journals and plucked long-lost and largely unknown supernatural stories from the Golden Age of the ghostly - the 1890s through to the Twenties. ![]() GLIMPSES OF THE UNKNOWN Edited by Mike Ashley (British Library £8.99, 336 pp)Įdited by Mike Ashley (British Library £8.99, 336 pp) ![]()
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