“Why Do Spirits Walk the Earth?”: The 7 Hard Truths that Ghosts Expose in Literary Horror
Ebenezer Scrooge said it best when he begged the preceding question of Marley’s Ghost in A Christmas Carol. What, he wanted to know,...
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