![]() There also has to be more than an easy manipulation of the reader's superficial emotions – unless making someone jump out of their skin is the writer's only aim. ![]() There has to be more to fiction than that. The ghosts are there and they apparently go through the same motions again and again. A headless horseman rides by, a phantom coach clatters down a dark road, a veiled lady drifts up a staircase and through a wall, a pale and misty child's face is glimpsed at a window – and that is all. There are dozens of little books of "true" ghost stories, usually sorted by geographical location, but almost without exception the ghosts have no purpose and so the stories are ultimately unsatisfying. A footnote to "ghost" was a) of a human being and b) with a purpose. ![]() The list of ingredients included atmosphere, a ghost, a haunted house and other places, and weather. ![]()
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