![]() On occasion they even act as comic relief, executing clownish antics like juggling their own dismembered body parts and popping up through the floorboards. They are the threats in bedtime stories to make children behave. They keep spooked readers awake at night, lurking by their bedsides. ![]() They loom over their murderers, driving them to madness with guilt. They spurn characters to avenge their deaths, demanding from beyond the grave that justice be enacted on their behalf. They establish a setting as Gothic, allowing the characters who still breathe no peace, floating on the mist that surrounds the crumbling ancestral castle or the ominous forest. What do ghosts, presumably incapable of influencing events among the living, do in the world of fiction? Well, in fact, plenty. The Ghost of Suzuko | By Vincent Brault | Translated by Benjamin Hedley | Baraka Books, 2022 ![]()
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