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GHOSTS--TREAT
GENTLY.
THEM
DR. JAMES AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
A FAMOUS EXPERT ON THE VOGUE FOR CREEPY STORIES.
Dr. Janies, Provost of Elon, the author of the following y article, which we reprint from the "Evening Standard,” is prob- ably the greatest living authority on the literature of ghosts. The publication last month of a collection of 31. of his short “storiën coincider with that a of number of stanic "creepy" talex, among“? the writers of which ha ik alw represented.
What
...
upon
Grst interested 'me' in me all-important,, since in it there ghosts? This I can tell you quite is the greatest opportunity for definitely. In my childhood I variety..
Haunted Castles. chanced to see a tey Pasch and Judy set, with figures cut out in cardboard. One of these was The Ghost. It was a tall figure habited in White with an unnaturally long and narrow hend, atso surrounded with white, and a dismal visage.
WO
It is
this and upon the first glimmer of the appearance of the supernatural that pains, must, be lavished. But we need not, should not, use all the colours in the box. In the infancy of the art wo needed the haunted castle a bettling rock to put us in the right frame: the tendency is not yet extinct, for I have but just rend Other questions why I like
a story with a mysterious mansion ghost stories, or what are the best,
on a desolate height in Cornwoll or why they are the best, or re- and a gentleman practising the.
Upon this my conceptions of a ghost were based, and for years it permented my dresink
on
-China Auction looms, Propertype for writing such things-I have worst sort of magic. How often,
Sale, 3 p.m.
and
Queen's Theatre: «3t;u Bill"
World Theatre:" Desert Song" Central Theatre: "The Marriage _Playground."
King's Theatro: "Feet First." Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shing Thentre, 8 p.m.
scribed or shown to me as fit scenes for stories!
never found it easy to be so positive too have ruinous old houses been de- ahont Clearly, however, the public likes them. The recrudescence of ghost stories in recent years is not- able: it corresponds, a dirse, with the vogue of the detectiva tale.
I
am speaking of the literary ghost story here. The story, that claims to be "veridical" (in the,
"Can't you imagine samo old monk or friar, wandering about this long gallery No, I can't. I know Harrison Ainsworth could! "The Lancashire Witches" teems
Dantes Tea Dance at
H.K. language of the Society for Pay with Cistercians and what he calls Hotel: Dinner Dances at H.K. chien Research) is a very dif
Hotel Cecil.
Hatol, Renulse Bay Hotel and ferent affair. It will probably be quite brief, and will conform to European Mail-Inward: Europe some one of several familier types. ria Siberia (Sphinx). Outward: This is but reasonable, for, if there Europó via Suez (Calchas) 2 p.m.;e ghosts-ns I am quite prepared! Europe via Suez (Sphinx) 2.30 p.m. to believe-the true ghost story aced do no more than illustrate their normal habits (if normal is the [right word), and may be as mild
as. milk,
Wednesday.
and
Desert
(May 27.)
Queen's Theatre: ** Min
The literary ghost, on the other Bill."
hand, has to justify his existence World Theatre: "The Song."
by some startling demonstration, Central Theatre: "The Marriage or, short of that, must be furnished with a background that will throw Playground."
King's
bim into full relief and make him Big Trial."
the central feature.
Dances: Tea Dance
Since the things which the ghost at H.K. Hotel; Dinner Dances at Penin- can effectively do are very limited
Theatre: "The
votaresses in mouldering vestments, who glide about passages to vary. little purpose. But these fail to impress. Not that I have not a soft corner in my heart for Tho Lancashire Witches," which-ridi-
culous as much of it is—has dis tinct merits as a story.
It cannot be said too often that the more remote in time, the ghost is the harder it is to make him effective, always supposing him to be the ghost of a dead person. Elementale and such-like do net come under this rule.
Roughly speaking, the ghost, should be a contemporary of the Boer. Such was the elder Hamlet and such Jacob Marley. The latter cite with confidence and in despite
sula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.in number, ranging about death of critics, for whatever, may be
European Mail:-Outward: Europe ria Siberin (Asama Maru) and madness and the discovery urged against some, parts.of "Tho of secrets, the setting seems 10
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