It's hard to give up ghosts, once you've lived with them

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: May 21, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Looking back, I think I can say ghosts have been good to me. But when I was seven or eight, I wouldn't have said so. I was afraid that something would come out of the walls, out of the dark centre of our house, and frighten me so badly that I would fall down and die.

When I was a small child, I lived with my parents and grandparents in a mill village in northern Derbyshire. When I was six, I moved with my parents and new brother to a place of our own, a stone-built terrace house just up the hill. Though we were approaching the 1960s, the house still had gas-lighting, and many of its walls ...

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