#eight ghosts

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If haunting is anything, perhaps that’s what it is; time in the wrong place.

Jeanette Winterson, Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories; from ‘As Strong As Death’

[saintmaudes]

In a place like this, layered like a fossil record through seams of time, it’s easy to believe that time is simultaneous. If haunting is anything, perhaps that’s what it is; time in the wrong place.

—Jeanette Winterson, ‘As Strong As Death,’ in Eight Ghosts ed. Rowan Routh

[derangedrhythms]

Death has been a silent companion my whole life. One cannot fear such a close and constant kin.

Stuart Evers, Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories; from ‘Never Departed More’

[derangedrhythms]

But the sea and the night make things mysterious, don’t they?

Jeanette Winterson, Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories; from ‘As Strong As Death’

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He suffered from extremes of emotion, so they say, a man as volatile as the weather here; a man of scudding clouds and flashes of lightning.

Jeanette Winterson, Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories; from ‘As Strong As Death’

[derangedrhythms]

Ghost truths, not ghost stories

Rowan Routh, quoting a member of staff from Upnor Castle in Kent, from ‘Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories’

[derangedrhythms]

The night was blustery and restless. The wind like a conversation you can’t hear.

Jeanette Winterson, Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories; from ‘As Strong As Death’

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And the fact is that none of us has the slightest knowledge of what happens after we die. Materialists are no better informed than mediums.

Jeanette Winterson, Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories; from ‘As Strong As Death’