Whether there is any necessary link between a devotion to afternoon sweets, queuing, and windowbox gardening on the one hand, and a passion for the ghost story on the other, would be hard to say. But ...
Your eyes are red and white candy spirals, your brain is mince pie, and Elf on the Shelf, having glared at you for weeks, has returned to his desk job with the surveillance state. We know horror at ...
A flawed but fascinating history of the modern world. Michael Dirda on Victorian ghost stories: “Anthologies of English ghost stories frequently begin with Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’ ...