#BOTD H. Russell Wakefield. Some consider Wakefield to be the last great ghost story writer in the classic tradition of M.R. James and Le Fanu. Betjeman, Lovecraft and August Derleth are amongst his admirers. Works include: A Clock Strikes Twelve and They Return at Evening #books
"Historically, the symbolic interpretation of the dead has been the traditional Jungian method of approach. This entails the dead representing many things including transitions, death, beginnings, endings, rebirth, projections, as well as the unconscious itsel..."
"and psychoanalysis continued to trespass on occult territory: dreams, ghosts, premonitions, telepathy. Freud was like the last Kabbalist - a reincarnated medieval magician intent on raising modern demons. He insisted on talking about all those things that poli..."
"I read as though the land of lost content was mine, feeling homesick for a time and place to which I never belonged. I am haunted by the meadows that are an inanimate character in J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country. I remember Adlestrop as though my own train..."