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Book review: The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: You can't put a good spook down
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The Virago Book of Ghost Stories edited by Richard Dalby
Virago, 496pp, GBP 12.99
IT MAY NO LONGER BE THE case that, as Jerome K Jerome wrote,
"whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on
Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories", for they
are now more likely to be slumped in front of the television set. Yet
ghost stories are still popular, satisfying what Virginia Woolf
called "the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling
afraid".
The job of writing them is perhaps harder than it used to be,
certainty of the immortality of the soul, and ...
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