Cole Swensen
Ghost Stories - Le Fanu's Story
Ghost Stories - Le Fanu's Story
Sheirdan Le Fanu offers a variation on this story in which the whole family hears a carriage arrive
late at night, just at the time that (they later learn) their older daughter has died miles away. Even
the dogs start barking, and they all clearly hear the folding down of the carriage stairs, but when
they open the door, the courtyard is empty, and the dogs recoil in fear. So that the sight
of anyone in an unexpected place so that the voice now traveling alone out on its own
on a quiet day I saw a friend I knew to be in Japan I once saw my sister on a train
Sometimes it=s only a strong resemblance, and you wonder if the person in question hasn’t had a
close call, crossing the street with an absent mind, or walked out of a building just moments
before it blew up. Caught a cab on the corner & never knew. It happens every day. We are made
in a thin thread or of the line incised into the pane which may be only a
photograph, she said, whenever I look at a photograph, I see not the man who died years ago
but the one who will or in a window turned and touched his fingertips to the pane