Christmas Ghosts
Saturday November 25, 2006 in books | ghost stories
Yesterday’s ghostly quote was from Heart of Darkness, where Marlow visits Kurtz’s widow at the end of the book. I can’t wait to start reading A Christmas Carol, so I can find the passage that Conrad nods towards.
On the ghostly theme, I’m enjoying Walter de da Mare’s Ghost Stories. Think empty houses with lonely people left to their own thoughts and haunting themselves, and you have de la Mare:
If, it appeared, you only remained solitary and secluded enough, and let your mind wander on its own sweet way, the problem was always bound to become, if not your one and only, at least your chief concern. Unless you were preternaturally busy and preoccupied, you simply couldn’t live on and on in a haunted house without being occasionally reminded of its ghosts.
I’m a sucker for a well written ghost story.