Ghosts, wraiths, specters. Poltergeists, phantoms, shades. They manifest in many shapes and dispositions in our lives and the literatures of all cultures. From the Egyptian to the Tibetan Book of the Dead , from the Homeric epics to Shakespeare’s King Hamlet, from the Victorian ghosts of Sheridan Le Fanu, Violet Hunt, and MR James to Amos Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts , from the ethereal creatures of Poe to the startlingly “realistic” ghosts of Henry James and Edith Wh...| Conjunctions
In the South, on the nights of a sweltering summer, we children like to sleep in the middle of the road. No cars pass by overnight; everyone plops their water-cooled bamboo beds outside, and the moment of excitement arrives. Ah, the corpse drivers! Ah, the Spider Demon King! Ah, the Milky Way! Ah, what we cannot struggle free of . . . The streetlights always went out at midnight, because there weren’t any cars, nor any pedestrians, so what need would we have for them? As they are extinguish...| Conjunctions
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