Jeremy Dyson

The book is the metafictional story of an author tasked with the creation of a book. The book begins as a creepy collection ghost encounters, their locations, author's own experiences having travelled to the sites, and retold as stories with characters and eerie atmospheres. Each introduction has a Valentine Dyall/Vincent Price/Hitchcock technique to it, and each tale told in the style of Poe - building on the suspense of fairly predictable outcomes. However the book changes dramatically when the author comes across document, titled "This Book is Haunted", which tells the tale of a writer in the 1970s travelling around the UK chasing ghost stories, who in turn finds a text titled "A Book of Hauntings" (1938), who's author, subsequently discovers "Glimpses in the Twilight" (1885). Finally the narrative draws the book to an end but not by returning to the original as one would expect, but by including you, the reader into a metaphysical discussion about how you came across a book about hauntings.
Was the book haunted? A paranoid reader might easily find oneself looking around for a ghostly figure for several days after reading, I myself did indeed experience a couple of uncanny coincidences throughout the reading, but alas no ghostly girl.… (more)