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But Glamis is far from unique. Author Underwood's high-spirited book provides equally fascinating lore about Britain's other haunts. It tells which ghost is working which castle, describes the author's own investigations of the ectoplasmic phenomena, and, at the end of each of the...
Analyzed Spookery. A surprising number of the ghosts vetted by the Gazetteer are anything but evil: there are legions of priests chanting liturgies, for instance, and distraught gentlewomen who specialize in vanishing into walls. Yet there is enough sheer horror to send chills through the stoutest cynic. One example is...
Puppet Show. In the later years of the 19th century, the Third Republic could rarely be described as a working democracy. Haunted by France's humiliating defeat in the war of 1870 enraged clericals and anticlericals, lurking royalists and Bonapartists, wild radicals and Republicans turned the parliamentary process into...
The Go-Between, like Accident, is doused with sensual summer sunlight (Cinematographer Gerry Fisher did the superb work on both films) and haunted by time. "The past is a foreign country," says the narrator, over a shot of an English manor house. "They do things differently there." Immediately the film...
Full Velocity. Two-Lane Blacktop does suffer from a certain overfamiliarity. After Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and their sundry imitators, the American highway as a metaphor has become a pretty well-traveled route. But Two-Lane Blacktop is full of its own surprises. Rock Stars James Taylor and Dennis...