Andrew: I don’t disagree with you about M.R. James–I wrote about him for Halloween last year in the WSJ. So the question becomes, if I do this again next year, who should get the attention? Immediate potential candidates: Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood, maybe even Russell Kirk. Or is there a living ghost-story writer who belongs in this pantheon?

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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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