The Corner

Ghost Story

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?

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, 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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