Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, 1916-31, Holy Ghost College, Nornwell Heights...
...rails will connect Klamath Falls and Bieber, Calif., will link the Northern transcontinental routes with Western Pacific. The track will feed new traffic to both systems, will also bring competition to Southern Pacific's land and sea routes. And it will bring a smile to the ghost of James Jerome Hill who, never satisfied with merely pushing to the Coast, always hoped some day he could drive his steel into California, tap San Francisco and the fertile valleys of the Sacramento and the San Joaquin...
Since the Witch of Endor, rare are the artists who have raised a proper ghost. Bram Stoker raised one (Dracula]; Algernon Blackwood one (The Wendigo); Walter de la Mare, a few (The Return, On the Edge, TIME, Feb. 23): M. R. James several. Ghost-story addicts will welcome this collection of his four spooky books (Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Afore Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious...
...scholar, Ghost Man James knows how to link antiquity and horror: many of his spooks are harmlessly buried till a blundering antiquarian stirs them up. If the meddler survives, his invariable rule thereafter is to let sleeping ghosts lie. James sets the scenes of his stories with cunning realism, hearty plausibility; he never needs Bohemia or Walpurgis Night. Imperceptibly the shades thicken; something (it might be a rat) scuffles in a corner; something (it might be the wind) puffs out the curtains; and then...
...Author. Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James, Provost of Eton (TIME, June 29), famed Old & New Testament scholar (author of The Apocryphal New Testament, Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament, Old Testament Legends) says his ghost stories are based on neither his own nor others' experience. They were suggested mostly by reading, by places; once by a dream. If you were to ask him whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly...